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In this episode, I speak with Philip Sage about the MTBF (again), but with a focus on its indiscriminate use to describe electronic component failures.
Phil shares the history of its use and how it has become the de facto metric.
If you want to learn more about how to assess the Reliability of your Electronic components, then you should reach out to Phil through Linkedin or his website (https://mantua.group/).
Plenty of laughs and tons of insights in this new episode where we talk with Andy Page, Ph.D. of Net Results Inc. Inc about #CMMS, maintenance management, and his upcoming presentation at Reliable Plant 2024 on “Decluttering your PM Program.”
We start this with Andy’s journey story including the background, influences, and experiences that bring us right up to present day.
Tune in for another great expert in the maintenance and reliability space!! Lots covered. We even talked a little psychology. Watch or listen and let us know your thoughts with a like, comment, and share.
Andy will speak at the upcoming Reliable Plant Conference happening in Chicago June 3-6, 2024. It’s great opportunity to learn from experts, like Andy Page, from throughout industry. Plenty of workshops, presenters, and exhibitors to help you along your journey.
Greg and Fred discuss the importance of key metrics, whether KPI’s or OKR’s, to determine the quality of decision making.
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Thank you, Adrian Messer of SDT Ultrasound Solution for joining to record this episode covering your background, how you got into this space, some CMMS and maintenance management topics, and a preview to your upcoming presentation at the Reliable Plant and Machinery Lubrication Conference & Exhibit happening in Chicago June 3-6, 2024!!
Today we’re exploring a concept that has deep roots in process safety and infrastructure management, but also has meaningful applications in electronics manufacturing: Damage Mechanism Reviews, or DMRs.
My guest today is Dheeraj Narang, a corrosion and reliability engineering specialist, process safety activist, and digital innovation researcher with an impressive track record across the energy sector.
Dheeraj has spent his career developing and implementing asset integrity programs for more than nine global energy companies across the U.S., India, and the Middle East.
He’s also a visionary advocate for using advanced technologies, industry best practices, and safety standards to uplift regions and workers where such systems are still under development.
Whether it’s through his service on global conference committees or his contributions to cutting-edge digital initiatives, Dheeraj is on a mission to blend technology, safety, and human rights into a unified vision of operational excellence.
In this episode, we’ll discuss:
What Damage Mechanism Reviews are and why they matter.
How DMRs tie into reliability programs like FMECA.
How DMR thinking could benefit industries outside of oil and gas—including electronics manufacturing
and how emerging technologies like AI and machine learning can amplify the impact of these reviews.
Whether you’re in energy, electronics, or any industry where reliability and safety are paramount, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
Dheeraj’s Contact Info:
dnarang1@my.harrisburgu.edu
Enrico and Fred discuss a few approaches that may be effective when communication complex topics to others.
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You want real? You want your story told right from someone who gets it? Look no further than Jake Bailey and Rising Eagle Media!!
The Goal: “Capture the story of the Tradesperson.”
This is a special episode with a featured guest with a vision and skillset for our time and for our cause. The trades are near and dear to Jake’s heart and soul. His passion comes from real-world experience as a heavy equipment mechanic, US Military service, and he’s run the gambit to set a foundation of excellence in the pursuit of visual storytelling. He’s not just capturing images and photos like the rest. He’s capturing the brilliance of what really happens in trenches and making what might be construed as mundane, exciting and impactful. He calls is capturing the dragon!!
We’re so happy to have this amazing and real af conversation with Jake to learn all about his passion and why it matters to our industry. At the heard of any environment using a CMMS is the people, process, and knuckle busting work that MUST happen. Get to know Jake, Rising Eagle Media, and the importance of mindset in maintenance and repair!!
Connect with Jake for a consultation call if you’re ready to have your story in filed service told the right way!! Tell them CMMSradio sent you. https://www.risingeaglemedia.com/ or hit the contact form here: https://www.risingeaglemedia.com/contact
In product development, the “fuzzy front end” of concept development often represents both tremendous opportunity and significant challenge. During this critical phase, teams are tasked with defining problems, understanding customers, and generating solutions—all before any engineering begins.
How we navigate this phase dramatically impacts bottom-line results, market share, customer satisfaction, and whether projects even launch at all.
What makes concept development particularly difficult is that teams typically lack something concrete to discuss. Without prototypes or developed products, conversations can become abstract and unfocused. This challenge is compounded when cross-functional team members approach problems from vastly different perspectives, sometimes unknowingly working to solve entirely different issues altogether.
The traditional approach of gathering everyone in a room for open brainstorming sessions has proven remarkably ineffective. Research confirms what many of us have experienced: teams engaged in unstructured brainstorming typically generate fewer ideas, and those ideas are often of lower quality compared to more structured approaches.
The solution lies in using visual models and templates—structured frameworks that guide the creative process and facilitate meaningful team collaboration.
Another great episode featuring expert guest Shon Isenhour, CMRP CAMA of Eruditio talking about misunderstood terms and concepts (a little myth busting maybe) and the role of CMMS in maintenance operations.
There’s a lot covered in this episode – BS Flags, Trees on Fire, CMMS Spinal Cord, Process + Tech for big ROI, and much more.
Let us know, in the comments, what you think or add the conversation – You do not have to be right, just participate!!
Air fin coolers are one of the most important assets in process plant facilities for ensuring continued operational excellence and production rate of the process plant. There are numerous remaining life assessment (RLA) and reliability engineering (RE) methodologies available for performing condition assessment of the air fin coolers. Most methodologies concentrate on the mechanical integrity (MI) aspects of air fin coolers such as the header box and fin tubes life assessment using recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP) to primarily address the loss of containment (process fluid) scenarios. There is rarely a comprehensive methodology or framework that also covers the dynamic parts such as fin blades, electrical motor, gear box and propeller (fan) in assessing remaining life of the air fin coolers. This article will outline a thorough reliability engineering or remaining life assessment framework (holistic methodology) that will cover both the mechanical integrity (header box and fin tubes) and reliability aspects (fin blades, electrical motor, gear box and propeller) aspects enabling the asset integrity (reliability & maintenance) engineering personnel to generate a technical, coherent, and auditable reliability report for the air fin coolers. This technical webinar is based on a poster session that was originally presented at the 2024 AiCHE Spring Meeting and 20th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans, LA.
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We are so lucky to have Erik Jupje, of Reliability Academy, join for this episode on #CMMSradio – It is loaded to the max with insights and real talk about maintenance and relibility, CMMS of course, and a lot about maintenance culture!! We are all about global experts, bona-fide experts like Erik that are trying to make the maintenance world a better place.
Say it Louder & Why
Does your CMMS Suck?
CMMS Selection
Maintenance vs. Leadership KPI’s
The BEST CMMS – You might not be surprised!!
Less data is more if you add one thing – QUALITY!
Building good, useful, and effective PM strategies (preventive maintenance).
Thank you, Erik, for join to record this MONSTER episode.
Greg and Fred discuss what happens when a company doesn’t have the engineering knowledge, skills, and abilities to design things. Why? Companies don’t make commodity stuff any more. They outsource these items. The challenge of outsourcing often means outsourcing engineering expertise. Big problem. So what are the solutions?
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Kirk and Fred discuss the new options for doing technical research, including Google Scholar and AI tools like ChatGPT ᐅ Play Episode
In this episode of CMMSradio, Greg, Host of #CMMSradio, and Matt Selbie, Opiniator.com, delve into two main themes.
The importance of customer feedback in driving business success.
Proactive engagement via technology.
We learn how Opiniator’s platform streamlines the feedback collection process, facilitating real-time insights for businesses to adapt and improve customer experiences. The significance of proactive engagement with customers to enhance satisfaction and loyalty, highlighting the role of technology to this end.
Greg and Matt tackle the skilled trades gap, attributing it to various factors including generational shifts and the retirement of our skilled trades keepers of knowledge. They discuss the urgent need to incentivize younger individuals to pursue careers in skilled trades by revising pay scales and altering the perception of these professions as antiquated or unattractive. Matt shares insights into successful approaches adopted by organizations to address the shortage of skilled workers, advocating for the reintroduction of vocational classes in educational curricula.
Throughout the episode, personal anecdotes from Matt, such as his favorite music genre, and sport, add a touch of relatability. We’ll get some insight on work-life balance as well.
Connect with Opiniator at www.opiniator.com and fine Matthew Selbie on LinkedIn to start your own conversation.
In this episode we learn all about the new UpKeep Ambassador Program with returning expert guest Bryan Bieschke, CMRP, head of Community & Partnerships at UpKeep, getting into all aspects of how the program came into existence and why it is so important for successful outcomes.
In fact, it is changing the game when it comes to impact for organization selecting and utilizing a CMMS, like UpKeep, to get the basic fundamentals absolutely right. One big takeaway is how the ambassadors see the overall world of maintenance, specifically maintenance and reliability (think CMRP) and their respective experiences and insights being along for the ride to create great customer experiences. Who wants to do guesswork on such a critical component of their overall maintenance operations? Nobody. How do we connect this endeavor to the overall business? UpKeep ambassadors know how to do that in a real and practical way.
This episode covers all of it and gets us all excited about the CMMS journey ahead knowing we’ve got the right resources, the right people, and the right knowhow to get you there.
