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Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, focusing on the third principle.
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Testing is expensive. Reliability testing is often complex. Let’s break down the basics of planning and conducting reliability testing that provides meaningful results cost-effectively and timely. Let’s do testing right.
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Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, with focus on the second principle.
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The companies who have an asset management program can’t be successful without implementing RCM in their facilities. They will face failures all the time and if they don’t have any proactive process like RCM in place, they are never going to come out of fixing things again and again. So, what is RCM? RCM is one of the most efficient and effective proactive maintenance processes that is considered one of the most powerful asset management tools. One of the coolest things about RCM is that you can apply it to any industry or your daily life. It has one of the most diverse applications in the world.
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This week’s episode is sponsored by Fluke and I welcome back John Bernet to the show. We talk about why we need to start off with criticality or RCM to determine our maintenance strategies, mistakes people make when starting a vibration analysis program and we dive deeper into vibration analysis.
If you want to learn more about Fluke’s products or about John Bernet, go to accendoreliability.com/go/fluke
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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.
Carl and Fred discussing the question: Is it more important to calculate reliability or to achieve reliability?
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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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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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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.
Check out The Manufacturing Game –manufacturinggame.com/
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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
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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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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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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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.
Check out suzanegreeman.com
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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
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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Carl and Fred discussing design requirements and how they influence reliability decisions.
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