Difference Between Quality and Reliability
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how the disciplines of Quality and Reliability differ.
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SOR 283 Difference Between Quality and Reliability
88 – Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell
Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell
When it comes to reliability programs, many organizations only focus on the cost reduction of assets and that is a terrible practice. It is not the only goal that reliability program can be deduced to achieve. There are a lot of other activities that can generate a sustainable revenue for you if you perform the necessary maintenance activities for keeping your assets working more efficiently. The real goals of the reliability programs should be to reduce downtime, increase availability, and enhance the performance of those assets that should be working for continuous production.
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SOR 282 Reliability Building Credibility by Helping in Urgent Situations
Reliability Building Credibility by Helping in Urgent Situations
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how reliability engineers can build credibility within the larger product development team.
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SOR 281 Including your Customer in your Reliability Program
Including your Customer in your Reliability Program
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Adam and John Kreucher discuss engaging the customer in the new product maturing process.
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Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability
Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability podcast episode
I define a reliability failure as something that costs your organization money. It might be a warranty expense or a lost customer. A failure may also create customer expenses, too. Let’s talk about the range of un-reliability costs and their impacts.
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87 – Accounting for External Influences in Improvement Programs with Fred Schenkelberg
Accounting for External Influences in Improvement Programs with Fred Schenkelberg
Do you plan for every factor that can influence the performance of your systems? Are the environmental conditions too much of a problem for you? There are several external factors that influence a reliability improvement program. You can never get the desired output if you don’t try different inputs and see the varied results for yourself and then test and analyze each favorable result until you are satisfied with them. But there is not always enough budget lying around for you to do experimentation just like that. Some companies have a limited budget and tight deadlines and you have to plan for those external factors according to the environmental conditions that your equipment has to face.
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SOR 280 How Reliability Practices are Different in Different Industries
How Reliability Practices are Different in Different Industries
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Adam and John Kreucher discussing how the application of reliability tools and methods differs by industry
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SOR 279 A Discussion About Drenick’s Theorem
A Discussion About Drenick’s Theorem
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Fred and Philip Sage discussing the possible source of the widespread use of MTBF.
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86 – Life Cycle Costing with Fred Schenkelberg
Life Cycle Costing with Fred Schenkelberg
There are a lot of organizations who buy systems that cost less initially because of limited budget or due to a number of other reasons. They never even bother to bring in the financial or operations experts to get more information from the suppliers about the equipment they are going to purchase. Does it perform all the functions we need? Does it have that built-in reliability mechanism? Will it serve the purpose even? They don’t ask these questions because the initial buying cost is less or fits in with the budget. This is a mistake that leads to expensive maintenance later on.
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DTK Rob Allen Consultant
Rob Allen, Consultant
Tim interviews Rob Allen a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and phase gate product development processes.
SOR 278 How to Use Industry Standards
How to Use Industry Standards
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Adam and Fred discussing Reliability Standards and how to use them
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SOR 277 Connecting Reliability Tasks with Decisions
Connecting Reliability Tasks with Decisions
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Adam and Fred discussing how to ensure reliability test and analysis tool output affects program decisions
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85 – Calculating the ROI with Fred Schenkelberg
Calculating the ROI with Fred Schenkelberg
The reliability and maintenance process is never static in the organizations. There’s always something going on around and there are many activities being performed in the company. Now, these activities take time and need money to be done successfully. There are many activities in this list that will cost you millions sometimes. So, how do we get that kind of investment from our financiers? Some of the stakeholders can be convinced by merely good talks and promises of great success but the technical personnel who have spent all their lives running businesses, they can’t be persuaded by such means.
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SOR 276 Dancing with Fear to Get Things Done
Dancing with Fear to Get Things Done
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Carl and Fred discuss how fear can keep us from achieving our goals, and strategies to overcome our fears.
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SOR 275 What is Reliability Leadership?
What is Reliability Leadership?
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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of leadership, and how it applies to reliability engineering and management.
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