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Good morning #reliabilitygang, i hope everyone has a great week. This Monday we kick it off with our new slogan DETECT – SOLVE – IMPROVE. In this podcast I explain what the slogan means and how we are approaching reliability in a new strategy in 2022. Have a listen to see the idea behind the new slogan and how we are excited to provide more value for the industry.
In this episode of CMMSradio presents Friends of Nano, from SMRP 2025 in Fort Worth, TX, we’re joined by Corey Dickens, CMRP of Brightly Software to talk SMRP, maintenance management, CMMS, and more!
Listen for shout outs! Corey is a Real Deal Pro and regular on CMMSradio! This one is special and we wish to thank Brightly for sponsoring this special production along with ReliabilityX and Nanoprecise!
What if passing the test is not enough?
In reliability engineering, we often place a great deal of confidence in laboratory validation. We test, measure, analyze, and document. And when the product passes, we naturally assume it is ready for the field.
But what happens when a product passes the lab test and still fails in the hands of the customer?
Today, we are going to explore the gap between laboratory reliability testing and actual field performance.
It is a gap that can be costly, frustrating, and sometimes difficult to explain.
Products can perform well under controlled test conditions, yet still experience unexpected failures when exposed to real users, real environments, real service conditions, and real-world variability.
My guest today is Dr. Nishith Kumar Reddy Gorla of CORE ITS LLC.
Dr. Gorla’s work focuses on system-level reliability testing, field reliability alignment, reliability growth, and test-to-field correlation for complex products.
His recent paper, “System-Level Test Case Design for Field Reliability Alignment in Complex Products,” looks at why traditional reliability test methods may miss important field failure modes.
More importantly, it proposes a broader approach to test case design that considers not just the product design, but also actual use conditions, field failure data, end-user behavior, service procedures, manufacturing variation, consumables, and product interfaces.
This is an important conversation because reliability is not simply about passing a test. It is about understanding how a product behaves in the real world, where variables interact, users behave unpredictably, environments change, and failure mechanisms may not appear until the system is challenged in realistic ways.
If you design, build, test, specify, or depend on complex products, this discussion should be especially relevant.
Today, we will talk about why products sometimes pass in the lab but fail in the field, how better system-level test cases can improve field correlation, and what reliability professionals can do to create test methods that more accurately reflect real-world performance.
Dr. Gorla’s Article:
https://www.reliabilitymatterspodcast.com/article-1-gorla [Read more…]
Join us on Reliability 4.0 as we chat with Michelle Legge from the AES Corporation. Michelle shares her incredible journey from completely starting over as a mother of three kids to becoming a senior reliability engineer. Learn more about how AES uses cutting-edge tech like AI and machine learning to keep their energy systems running smoothly.
Michelle also talks about the importance of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in preventing and solving problems. Whether you’re new to reliability or a seasoned pro, you’ll find valuable insights and inspiration in Michelle’s story. Tune in to learn practical tips for improving reliability and making your operations more efficient.
CMMSradio sits down with Brit Bartolini, Account Director at MaintainX, to discuss bridging the gap between the plant floor and corporate goals. With deep family roots in manufacturing, Brit shares how empathy, curiosity, and simplicity drive successful maintenance transformation.
One standout story: a client saved $2.5 million in six months by replacing a legacy CMMS with MaintainX — proving that practical, people-first tech delivers real ROI.
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Bryan Bieschke and Howard Penrose – These two U.S. Navy vets join for an annual tradition to honor and celebrate Veteran’s day (11.11) – Maintenance Sea Stories III with plenty of stories, anecdotes, unknown U.S. Navy slang, and swearing!
Tune in to hear about skaters and shit bags, pencil whipping and FUBAR, and a ton of other shenanigans! Get out there and thank a veteran today, and on Veteran’s day, with a simple gesture like a coffee or s simple, “Thank you for your service!”
In this episode of CMMSradio, Jennifer Zach of MentorAPM Asset Management joins us on Friends of Nano at SMRP 2025 to talk maintenance, MentorLens, and more! Tune in for a fun conversation!
Thanks for the fun and insightful discussion Jennifer!
On this episode of Reliability 4.0, we talk with Yuri Grinshteyn, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google. Yuri explains how Google’s team helps keep their systems running smoothly for customers.
“They’re just not listening.” But what if the problem isn’t their ears—it’s their incentives? Join Fred and Mojan as they explore why people resist change, what actually motivates behavior, and how to drive change when you don’t have formal authority. ᐅ Play Episode
We catch up with Christer Idhammar of IDCON at the Mainstream UK Summit 2025 in Birmingham – He gives us insights into his speaking session and a few other things from his 64+ years in the industry! Go read his book Knocking Bolts and follow all of his content! Christer is a real deal pro that wants to help us all never forget the basics while embracing technology in the right way!
Thank you, Christer, for joining us on CMMSradio! It is an honor to showcase your insights, and experiences, in maintenance and reliability! [Read more…]
Enrico and Fred discuss a listener’s question about the process to convert a MTBF value to a Weibull curve.
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Will Ocean, of Maintain Reliability and #Reliabilitygang, joins CMMSradio at the inaugural Mainstream UK Summit in Birmingham (Millennium Point) to talk maintenance and reliability! This one goes deep and covers communication, condition monitoring, DISC, and more!
Tune in for a real, raw, and unscripted journey that covers some of the beginning, on Will’s journey into Maintenance and Reliability, along with a TON of other amazing topics!
Connect with Maintain Reliability: https://maintainreliability.co.uk/
Reliability Gang Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1278656
Today, we’re going to explore a topic that seems to be touching nearly every industry, every workplace, and increasingly every part of our daily lives: artificial intelligence.
But this conversation is not just about what AI can do. It’s about what AI assumes, what it values, what it misses, and what happens when powerful technologies are deployed into environments they were not designed to understand.
My guest today is Dr. James Maisiri, an AI researcher and writer whose work focuses on responsible AI, digital transformation, education, labor markets, and the societal impact of emerging technologies.
His work has been featured through organizations and publications including UNESCO, Mail & Guardian, and others, and his message is both simple and profound: AI is not neutral.
In one of his 3 TEDx talks, Dr. Maisiri said, ‘If Africa does not shape AI, then AI will shape Africa.
While his work often focuses on African communities and institutions, the lesson is much broader.
Every industry, including electronics manufacturing, needs to think carefully about how we adopt AI, what assumptions are built into these systems, and how we validate their use before trusting their output.
In electronics reliability, we often say that context matters. Materials, environments, residues, humidity, temperature, field conditions, and use cases all influence performance.
Today, we’ll ask whether the same is true for AI.
I’m not really sure how much of this conversation will tie in directly to reliability, but it’s a fascinating subject nonetheless. Let’s see where it takes us.
The hidden danger of AI in Africa | James Maisiri | TEDxUniversity of Johannesburg
How AI and Robotics Reconnects Us to Humanity
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-james-maisiri-7b8069281/
