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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from Erik Hupjé, founder of RoadtoReliability.com, joining our podcast all the way from Brisbane, Australia. Together we discuss the do’s and dont’s of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
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James and Fred discussing the range of motivation for professional education.
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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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On this week’s episode, I welcome Doug Waetjen to the show. Doug is the Vice President of Global Operations for UE Systems. We discuss steam traps, how they fail and how you can use ultrasound to identify those failures.
A few of you have asked me which conferences I’ll be attending in 2020. Right now, I have nothing on the books but I am looking for a few to attend. That being said, I’m hoping to attend the SMRP conference, Ultrasound World conference and the MainTrain conference. If there are any others, you’d like me to check out or if you’d like me to speak at your event, please let me know by sending me an email to robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com or send me a message on LinkedIn.
If you haven’t yet, check out my website robsreliability.comand sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Finally, if there are any topics, guests you’d like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
RCA has been around for a long time and has evolved with time. There are different acronyms associated with it such as HPI and RCFA. There are also different definitions of RCA out there and it really depends on how to perceive RCA. Most of the organizations consider it a linear process that serves the same purpose as a 5-Y would. When companies try to implement RCA with these sorts of limited perceptions, they always fail to get the results that they need. In the end, they either blame the individual carrying out the operations or just face continuous failures with temporary corrective measures.
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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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We decided to shake things up a bit this week on Masterminds in Maintenance by hosting a live Q&A session with 4 experts in the maintenance and reliability space!
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Adam and Fred discussing the difficulties of selecting the correct sample size for reliability demonstration testing.
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When you ‘pass’ a standard-based test, what does that mean? How can you use test results meaningfully besides just noting the product ‘passed’? Understanding the failure mechanisms at play, along with the statistics, is key. [Read more…]
In this episode, James interviews Alan Ross, former Vice-President of Reliability at SDMeyers and President of the Electric Power Reliability Alliance. Alan Ross has been involved with electrical systems for roughly 30 years and is now dedicated to transforming the industry by educating the next generation of electrical reliability mentors and leaders. He will do this through the Electric Power Reliability Alliance.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Gerard Wood back to the show. Gerard is the author of Simplifying Mining Maintenance and the host of the Bluefield 30 in 30 podcast. We discuss simplifying reliability, culture change and making sure the basics are done correctly.
A few of you have asked me which conferences I’ll be attending in 2020. Right now, I have nothing on the books but I am looking for a few to attend. That being said, I’m hoping to attend the SMRP conference, Ultrasound World conference and the MainTrain conference. If there are any others, you’d like me to check out or if you’d like me to speak at your event, please let me know by sending me an email to robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com or send me a message on LinkedIn.
If you haven’t yet, check out my website robsreliability.comand sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Finally, if there are any topics, guests you’d like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Check out UpKeep – http://www.robsreliability.com/upkeep/
Follow Gerard Wood on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-wood-146a3212/
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/
Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
CMMS stands for Computerized Maintenance Management System. These systems have been in existence since somewhere around 1965. They have, however, seen a dramatic shift from punch cards to the modern architecture we see today.
Steve Ricard of Fiix joins in this episode to share his insights on how organizations can make a successful transition from older to more modern CMMS.
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Episode 29: Recorded at SMTAI in Chicago – A Return Conversation with Foresite’s Lead Investigator Eric Camden. Eric discusses his experiences in field failure analysis including the failures and causes.
In this episode, James interviews Keith Staton of Weyerhaeuser. Keith has had a long career in reliability and got his start with the Navy. He is now the maintenance and reliability director for 14 Weyerhaeuser plants and just published a paper titled Gaining Control of Process Control which inspired this episode.
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Adam and Fred discussing why the “why?” of testing is so important.
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