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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
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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!
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…]
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
We’re excited to have Rick Clonan back with us to talk about planning. He currently serves as an Implementation and Training Manager at Eruditio and as the Best Practices Chair for the SMRP. He’s been in the industry for close to 30 years as a technician, planner/scheduler, maintenance supervisor, CMS administrator.
In this episode, we will be discussing:
…and so much more!
Carl and Fred discussing some of their most memorable reliability decisions, and how the decisions came about.
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James and Fred discussing the need to focus on upcoming decisions and problems to solve.
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In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Randy Clark, Manager of Reliability at POLARIS Laboratories!
In this week’s episode of Technology Disrupted, a Rob’s Reliability Project Podcast, Blair welcomes Sunil Vedula and Graham Kawulka of NanoPrecise Corp, and Dean Stephens of Benchmark Reliability Services to talk about the value of precision and confidence when it comes to wireless vibration condition monitoring. NanoPrecise hardware and software is challenging the value of both precision and confidence in one solution.
You can connect with our Guest here:
Sunil Vedula –linkedin.com/in/sunil-vedula-844a0917
Graham Kawulka –linkedin.com/in/graham-kawulka-0b851122
Dean Stephens –linkedin.com/in/dean-stephens-mmp-cmrp-crl-a7144813
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 me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Check out my website robsreliability.com and 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.
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We’re excited to be joined by Ashley, a marketing expert at Eruditio. She has been there for 2 years and handles all the marketing e.g., emails, products, websites, conferences, etc. Overall, she has amassed a wealthy 8 years of experience in marketing.
She’ll be our guide on discussing the common themes around marketing including:
James and Fred discussing how to go about preparing and planning for the coming year.
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Philip and Fred discussing the importance of mentoring and reliability guidance.
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This is the fourth in our webinar series, ‘Reliability Analysis … now what?’ We have examined how to turn data points (like the different failure points of devices under test) into something simple, useful, and sometimes beautiful! This is something that commercial software can’t do. [Read more…]
