Principle 1 Achieving or Calculating Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing the question: Is it more important to calculate reliability or to achieve reliability?
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SOR 368 Principle 1 Achieving or Calculating Reliability
SOR 367 Dealing with the Occurrence of Failure
Dealing with the Occurrence of Failure
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Chris and Fred discussing how different organizations deal with failures. Failures are a ‘bad’ thing in that a system doesn’t do what you hoped it would. But what about failures that occur during the design or production process? This is different. If you have scope to improve your system, then failures that you can analyze in a laboratory or test bed are invaluable. They, more than any other event, will help you understand the vulnerabilities of your system. And you must actively seek vulnerability to improve reliability. But if you are looking for failures, you must first admit that your system is vulnerable. And that is difficult for many people to do.
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130 – The Link between Reliability and Safety with Ron Moore
The Link between Reliability and Safety with Ron Moore
The link between reliability and safety cannot be overstated, especially since injuries to the technicians and engineers are very common mostly in manufacturing industries. These workplace injuries can have a severe impact on the organizational resources. Notwithstanding, there are still organizations that are not sold to the idea of creating a reliable plant. These organizations consider reliability as just a way to maintain the machines. What they fail to understand is that safety can only be achieved through reliability.
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RRP 024 What Really Motivates with Michelle Ledet Henley
RRP 024 What Really Motivates with Michelle Ledet Henley
In this week’s episode, I speak with Michelle Ledet Henley about her SMRP conference talk, “Ball Caps and Barbecues? What Really Motivates.” We talk about internal versus external motivation and how to properly engage your people in a reliability initiative.
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If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me atrobsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
SOR 366 The Soyuz Rocket Failure and What We Can Learn
The Recent Soyuz Rocket Failure and What We Can Learn
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Chris and Fred discussing the recent Russian Soyuz rocket failure. With the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet, the Soyuz rocket and spacecraft are now the only viable way to launch humans into space. The 1960s Soyuz rocket propels the 1960s Soyuz spacecraft into orbit … and to be clear it is only the rocket that failed. The Soyuz spacecraft successfully aborted the launch keep the crew safe. The Soyuz rocket has long been the yardstick of rocket safety – it easily has the most impressive reliability track record. But should this recent failure change that perception? And how can the Soyuz system still be operating when other programs have come and gone, primarily due to safety and reliability? This podcast attempts to answer some of these questions.
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SOR 364 Keeping Failure Knowledge Alive
Keeping Failure Knowledge Alive
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of keeping the failure data and details of past failures of products in order to make more reliable products.
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129 – Enhancing Manufacturing with PdM with Saar Yoskovitz
Enhancing Manufacturing with PdM with Saar Yoskovitz
There are organizations who have taken advantage of the new technologies like machine learning and methodologies such as data analytics. These have made it easier for reliability engineers to focus more on Predictive Maintenance rather than traditional maintenance and uptime increase. Now, the companies are growth-oriented and they want to enhance their manufacturing. They are practicing Predictive maintenance on a much wider scale. What they do is that they take machine data from the sensors, analyze it, and then catch a failure before it starts to develop. By doing this, they are able to mitigate an issue before it can cause any damage to an asset.
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RRP 023 Do You Treat Your Data Like an Asset? with Suzane Greeman
RRP 023 Do You Treat Your Data Like an Asset? with Suzane Greeman
In this week’s episode I speak with asset management expert, Suzane Greeman, about her article, ‘Is Your Asset Information Treated as as Asset?’ We dive into what is an asset, why data is so important in making correct equipment decisions and why your CMMS isn’t the only place to store data.
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If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
SOR 363 How to Best Learn from Previous Products
How to Best Learn from Previous Products
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Kirk and Fred discussing the problem of getting failure data from predecessor products for many companies. Without detailed useful and verified failure data, it is difficult to improve reliability
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SOR 362 Reliability and Industrial Designers
Reliability and Industrial Designers
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Carl and Fred discussing design requirements and how they influence reliability decisions.
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128 – How to Deal with the Top 5 Most Frequent Pump Failures with Heinz Bloch
How to Deal with the Top 5 Most Frequent Pump Failures with Heinz Bloch
In the first part of this podcast episode, we covered the state of pumps in facilities and process industries and the top 5 pump failures and their causes. What’s the best way to deal with these? Is it proper design specifications, proper engineering upfront? Is it a maintenance program? Or is it a combination of the two? In this second and last part of our podcast episode with Heinz Bloch, we are going to find out what has been implemented to address these failures.
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RRP 022 Machine Condition with Arun Santhebennur
RRP 022 Machine Condition with Arun Santhebennur
In this week’s episode, I welcome on the co-founder of Petasense, Arun Santhebennur. We talk about why we need to monitor multiple parameters when looking at machine condition and how to apply machine learning correctly.
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If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the show, email robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
SOR 361 Considering Interfaces in Reliability Work
Considering Interfaces in Reliability Work
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Carl and Fred discuss the various types of interfaces in electrical and mechanical systems and how they should be included in reliability analyses.
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SOR 360 The Double Edged Sword of Industry Standards
The Double Edged Sword of Industry Standards
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Adam and Fred discussing how industry standards can help and hurt new product development
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127 – The Top 5 Most Frequent Pump Failures with Heinz Bloch
The Top 5 Most Frequent Pump Failures with Heinz Bloch
Being one of the most important parts in automotive and aircraft industries, pumps are no exception to failure modes. The reason why pump failures exist is because either people think the pumps are not that important or they just know it and simply don’t want to take enough time to fix the problems. They just go about either replacing the pumps or just relying on the reserved pumps. They don’t even bother to eliminate the repeating failures by finding the root cause.
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