
Balancing Reliability Into Your Organization
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Philip and Fred discussing the difference between doing tasks and using the results to make decisions.
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Philip and Fred discussing the difference between doing tasks and using the results to make decisions.
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On this week’s episode of Over the Line, a Maintenance Disrupted Podcast, Steve welcomes Ryan Chan, CEO of upkeep to the show. Steve and Ryan discuss Upkeep’s new maintenance community and the importance of community.
You can connect with our Guest Ryan Chan here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-chan-upkeep/
You can join the maintenance community by going to www.upkeep.org
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com
Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.comand sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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It’s our pleasure to welcome Steve Richmond, the founder, and CEO of Projetech, a company providing IBM Maximo as a service. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and is also on the Forbes Technology Council. Projetech started by building automation systems, energy management, among others. It’s currently involved in providing Enterprise Asset Management as a service, with Steve’s experience in CMMS and EAM systems spanning about 30 years.
In this episode, we will be discussing:
…and so much more!
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Philip and Fred discussing a listener question about how to verify vendor claims about reliability.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the public’s perception of reliability after having a product with poor reliability or one with impressive robustness and how the online sharing of information can affect that in sales, or lack of.
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In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Shadrach Stephens, the Global Improvement Leader and Reliability Director at DOW, as well as Rob Kalwarowsky, Asset Management Specialist at Enbridge and Founder of Rob’s Reliability Project, on the show!
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On this week’s episode of Technology Innovation, a Maintenance Disrupted Podcast, Blair welcomes Doug Waetjen, VP at UE Systems. In this podcast, Blair, Steve, and Doug discuss UE Systems’ newest technology innovation, the OnTrak SmartLube Systems. The first IIoT remote bearing monitoring and lubrication system.
OnTrak SmartLube : uesystems.com/smartlube
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com
Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.comand sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted
Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Episode 58: 2020 Round-Up
On this last episode of 2020 there are no guests, no experts, no best-practice advice. Just a short recap of 2020.
We just reached more than 10,000 downloads of the podcast! A HUGE thank you to my audience and my guests for making this podcast possible! On this episode I’ll announce the first few guests of the 2021 season of Reliability Matters. This is looking like a terrific season!
We are now producing an audio-only format and a video format. The video format may be viewed on our new YouTube channel at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43S4–AIuSqlXvxmdsA7AQ
Please keep your questions and topic suggestions coming! Email me at:
mike@mikekonrad.com
Thanks everyone for making this podcast successful!
Mike Konrad
Reliability Matters
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We’re excited to have James Reyes-Picknell, the author of Uptime, Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management, back with us. He’s also written Reliability Centered Maintenance – Re-engineered and Paying Your Way which is his latest book. James also trains and consults in maintenance, reliability and asset management areas across different sectors.
In this episode, we will be discussing:
…and so much more!

Kirk and Fred discussing the reasons and practice of derating components for the purpose of improving the reliability of electronics products, as Kirk’s experience has shown most causes of unreliability are due to mistakes and overlooked errors in design, use, or manufacturing
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Carl and Fred discussing the attributes of good reliability requirements, and how they can be used to improve the reliability requirements setting process.
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On this week’s episode of Over the Line, a Maintenance Disrupted Podcast, Steve welcomes Bob Latino, CEO of the Reliability Center. In this podcast Bob and Steve discuss getting over common RCA hurdles, and some tips to improve buy-in.
You can connect with our Guest here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-bob-latino-3411097/
RCI Website: https://www.reliability.com/
EasyRCA Website: https://www.easyrca.com/
Focus Book – PROACT RCA Quick Reference Guide
Full Book – RCA: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com
Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted
Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Bryan Bieschke, Director of Maintenance and Reliability of T. Parker Host, as well as Caitlyn Young-Gilbert, Chief of Staff at UpKeep and Head of Community at The Maintenance Community Slack, Group back on the show!
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One of the things I like about reliability engineering is the field has a stable set of tools and approaches with an ever-changing set of challenges. The process of conducting an FMEA or Root Cause Analysis hasn’t changed much over time. Meanwhile, with the advent of new designs, materials, assembly techniques, and higher customer expectations, we continue to face interesting problems. [Read more…]
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Episode 57: A Conversation with CAF Expert Graham Naisbitt
Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF) is a form of Electrical-Chemical-Migration (ECM). Unlike surface-level ECM, CAF exists beneath the surface of the circuit assembly. Graham and I discuss the causes of CAF and methods to test for and mitigate CAF.
Graham has an extensive history working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. Graham was the IEC 1906 Lord Kelvin Award Winner. IEC TC91 WG2, 3 and 10 MaintenanceLeader of 4 Standards. He is Vice-Chair of the IPC 5-30 Cleaning and Coating Sub-Committee overseeing 15 IPC Standards Development Committees. He has received 14 IPC Standards Awards and is a BSI British Standards Institution (EPL501) Member.
Graham is a Specialist in Insulation Resistance Testing, Ionic Contamination Control, Solderability, Conformal Coating materials and application systems, including Cleaning, Inspection and Test.
Graham may be reached here:
graham.naisbitt@gen3systems.com
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