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220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson and George Williams started Reliability X.  Joe Anderson is the COO and George is the CEO. Reliability X is a consulting organization that offers the implementation of holistic reliability for manufacturing sites. They also offer coaching, mentoring and teaching in a variety of mechanisms. They have partnered with the University of Wisconsin.  Both of them have a vast amount of experiencing totaling 55 years. Here, they share with us some of their nuggets.

In this episode:

  • What is Reliability
  • Why should we sell Reliability yet it is the right thing to do
  • How do you sell to The Upper Management
  • How do you sell to the Plant Floor

… and so much more!

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SOR 561 Reliability Informed Decision Making

SOR 561 Reliability Informed Decision Making

Reliability Informed Decision Making

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Chris and Fred discuss the typical decisions that are informed by reliability. It might be easier to list what decisions are not informed by reliability engineering. We came up with a list of 13 … and that is only because we ran out of time. What decisions you think are influenced by reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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210-Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry

210-Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry

Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry

We’re privileged to have the Capacity Assurance Consultant for Fluke Reliability Solutions, Greg Perry. He has two decades worth of experience in the industry. So he will be talking about what availability and reliability are.

We will tackle:

  • What are availability and reliability
  • What are the inherent availability and inherent reliability
  • Do companies confuse inherent versus the actual values
  • And much more!

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SOR 548 Leaders, Champions, and Managers

SOR 548 Leaders, Champions, and Managers

Leaders, Champions, and Managers

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Chris and Fred discuss what a leader, champion and manager are. Many textbooks, guidebooks and so-called ‘domain experts’ tell us what (for example) a ‘reliability leader’ is. In some cases the ‘reliability leader’ is someone who has little influence, and is more of an ad hoc ‘doer.’ Not a leader. Why is this? Listen to this podcast to hear more about this?
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SOR 540 History of Reliability Part 2

SOR 540 History of Reliability Part 2

History of Reliability Part 2

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Chris and Carl continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion that started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it). In the short time they had to talk about it, they came up with 6 reliability engineering epochs. Now Carl is going to see if there is anything to add – and importantly – anything to learn.
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SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets

SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets

SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets

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Chris discusses ‘reliability security blankets.’ You know what security blankets are – the things that parents offer young children to make them feel safe and comfortable. Not because these blankets actually offer warmth, comfort or safety – but rather because the children associate feelings of warmth and safety with that object because it is ‘always there’ when they are at home or go to be. A reliability security blanket does the same thing – it calms the leaders, managers, bosses, and directors of an organization. But – that is it! There is no reliability to be found. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 500 How Speaking of Reliability Got Started

SOR 500 How Speaking of Reliability Got Started

SOR 500 How Speaking of Reliability Got Started

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Fred discusses the origin of Speaking of Reliability plus an introduction to SOR Shorts.
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SOR 475 Cat vs Dog Reliability

SOR 475 Cat vs Dog Reliability

Cat vs Dog Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing the question of which common pet has more reliable behavior and how this relates to quality versus reliability
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SOR 474 Preventing a Public Reliability Problem

SOR 474 Preventing a Public Reliability Problem

Preventing a Public Reliability Problem

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Kirk and Fred discussing how to prevent a field problem from becoming a widely disseminated through the media
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SOR 471 Questions to Ask about Data Analysis

SOR 471 Questions to Ask about Data Analysis

Questions to Ask about Data Analysis

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Chris and Fred discuss data analysis … specifically the first question we ask before we help someone with their data analysis project. Chris always asks – what is the decision that this data analysis will support? And Fred always asks – where did this data come from? The reason these questions are important is that you need to know what information you need before you construct an analysis to get that information. And you need to be confident in the results. A single data set can potentially create multiple information sets. And this depends on how you construct the analysis. Which based on the decision. Listen to this podcast if you would like to learn more.
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SOR 470 Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge

SOR 470 Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge

Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge

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Chris and Fred discuss reliability leadership. What is reliability leadership? Writing a book? Putting together a few slides? The first thing to know is that there is a difference between a reliability manager and a reliability leader. A reliability manager will tend to oversee practices and processes that others have identified or put together. Reliability leaders come up with the rationale, the motivation, the linking with business outcomes and everything else that creates or sustains organizational change. You can have the ‘best’ reliability engineers – but without reliability leadership, you won’t make reliable products. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast.
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SOR 468 When Are You Done Investing in Reliability

SOR 468 When Are You Done Investing in Reliability

When Are You Done Investing in Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing testing and monitoring the development of reliability and sustaining reliability and when to stop product improvement using HALT methods.
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SMRP 03 – Rules of Thumb in Reliability

SMRP 03 – Rules of Thumb in Reliability

Rules of Thumb in Reliability

Reliability is a procedural science at its core. This simply means that it is guided by a discipline to follow the set procedure and incrementally improve. As human beings, we tend to have a slight weakness in strict adherence to procedures. Sometimes with reliability, it is usually a result of not having the fundamentals down that we end up with inconsistent operations. Ricky Smith, a renowned reliability expert shared nuggets of wisdom from his seasoned experiences. ᐅ Play Episode

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SMRP 01 – Role of Data in Reliability

SMRP 01 – Role of Data in Reliability

Role of Data in Reliability

With the advent of Industry 4.0, data and connectivity have enabled equipment to become continuous factories of data. Whether process data, master data or realtime data, it has never been a more challenging time to adjust and harness the power of seemingly huge piles of potential information. Traditional maintenance and reliability are undergoing a tremendous shift as organizations become more data-driven. Sean Rosier and Nathanael Ince of PinnacleART are on the show to help us put in context, the relevance of data in reliability.
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SOR 464 The Gist of Reliability

SOR 464 The Gist of Reliability

The Gist of Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss the ‘gist’ of reliability. Fred was recently asked to be part of a panel to a number ‘hardware startups’ and was asked … what is the ‘gist’ of reliability? We try and answer that question as simply as possible in this podcast. The thing is … reliability will happen. Ignoring it doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Reliability is an outcome of your decisions and the design choices you make. The harder you work on it, the closer reliability will be to what you expect. So do you want to learn what the ‘gist’ of reliability is? Well, listen to this podcast.
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