
The Pride of Reliability
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Adam and Fred discussing how pride in your work is a component of highly reliable products.
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Adam and Fred discussing how pride in your work is a component of highly reliable products.
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Adam and Fred discussing how to use the product’s reliability goal to drive the test and development program.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Kevin Dagenais from Cascadia Scientific to talk about haul truck fuel monitoring. We discuss the savings available by using that data for mine site optimization, PM timing, operator training and other benefits. This episode is sponsored by Cascadia Scientific, if you would like to learn more about their platform, go to robsreliability.com/cascadia for a special offer just for Rob’s Reliability Project listeners. As a listener to this show, you’ll receive double the consulting credits and a coaching call with me when you sign up for a fuel monitoring engagement with Cascadia Scientific.
I’m hoping to outsource some of the editing and administrative work that comes with producing content in 2020 so you will be hearing some advertising on this podcast. If you’re 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, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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 Cascasdia Scientific – http://robsreliability.com/cascadia
Follow Kevin Dagenais on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-dagenais-5b43a514/
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Industry 4.0 is here to stay. Organizations are now getting their feet wet in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning as a way of increasing their output. However, aa good number of these companies have their projects stuck at the pilot stage, either due to inadequate management support, or simply communicating value to other departments. AJ Alexander walks us through the understanding of why this is a good time to start pilots and stimulate their growth.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we discuss electrical current analysis technology with the President of MotorDoc. We explore, “What types of equipment can benefit from electrical current analysis? What should we look for? When is electrical current analysis good and when is it not great to use it?” Listen now to find out these answers and more!
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Chris and Fred discuss the Reliability Management Tutorial that Chris and Carl Carlson (another Accendo contributor) will be delivering at the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) in Palm Springs later this month. This tutorial can contribute to you getting a certificate as well if you are attending. Like to learn more? Listen here.
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The reliability engineering discipline, like all fields of endeavor, is changing. The inclusion of risk management, the shift to proactively avoiding field failures, and the increasing use of sensors and models all make the future fascinating.
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Episode 32: A Conversation with Greg Smith and Tony Lentz About Stencil Design and Void Reduction
Greg and Tony talk to me about stencil design and how to reduce voiding. Voiding is a key concern in specific electronic applications including automotive and LED electronic manufacturing. Greg and Tony published a paper entitled “Root Cause Stencil Design for SMT Component Thermal Lands”
Download here: https://tinyurl.com/szx3xt8
Greg Smith can be reached here: gsmith@blueringstencils.com
Tony Lentz can be reached here: tlentz@fctassembly.com
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Stuart Fergusson from Fiix Software to talk about CMMS integration. We discuss what other software or data sources should be connected and how to get started.
I’m hoping to outsource some of the editing and administrative work that comes with producing content in 2020 so you will be hearing some advertising on this podcast. If you’re 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, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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 Fiix Software – https://www.fiixsoftware.com/
Follow Stuart Fergusson on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-fergusson-711ba8165/
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.
by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

In maintenance and reliability industry, soft skills are just as important as the hard skills. When you are faced with uncertain and complex situations, it becomes difficult to make good decisions. That’s why it comes in handy if you are good at critical thinking and can perform better under pressure as compared to your peers. Some organizations have competitive environment and they have limited resources to deploy for different programs. In these cases, they need to identify and put certain activities in place that would help their employees make the best use of those scarce resources.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we discuss effective maintenance planning and scheduling with Jeff Shiver. Only about 10% of planner schedulers are utilized effectively. Jeff Shiver shares with us how to interview, train and measure success for maintenance planners to make sure your business is in that 10%.
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James and Fred discussing the few ways to deal with pieces of equipment that fail either often or expensively.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a listener’s question on how to get started with HALT (Highly Accelerated Limit Test).
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Jason Apps to the show. Jason is the CEO of ARMS Reliability and the author of an article titled, “Driving a Reliability Culture”. We discuss culture, purpose and why reliability engineers are set up to fail.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/driving-reliability-culture-jason-apps
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 Susan Hobson at Elite High Performance Coaching – http://www.elitehighperformance.com/
Check out ARMS Reliability – https://www.armsreliability.com/
Follow Jason Apps on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-apps/
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.
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