What to Learn at a Reliability Conference
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James and Fred discussing the many ways to learn while at a conference.
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SOR 397 What to Learn at a Reliability Conference
RM 004 Improving Reliability of Circuit Assemblies in Harsh Environments
Improving Reliability of Circuit Assemblies in Harsh Environments
With the rapid expansion of IOT, many circuit assemblies are now functioning in unfamiliar environments, many of these environments are harsh. Additionally, many new electronic applications control critical systems such as automotive electronics. This webinar focuses on the influence contamination plays on reliability of circuit assemblies, particularly when operated in harsh environments.
Several contamination-related failure mechanisms are presented including electro-chemical migration (dendritic growth, parasitic leakage) and conductive anodic filament (CAF). Methods to determine how clean is clean enough are discussed.
PR 003 Time Estimations on Work Orders
Time Estimations on Work Orders
Tonight we continue our series on Planning and Scheduling. Our discussion is on Estimations on Work Orders. Tune in, download, and subscribe! [Read more…]
145 – How to Choose the Correct Seal Type with Chuck Tanner
How to Choose the Correct Seal Type with Chuck Tanner
Seals are very important to contain machine fluids and keep them from different sort of contamination. There are different types of seals in the market such as traditional packing, mechanical seals, air seals, and other seals that keep bearing hoses in check. Traditional packing is one of the cheapest sealing solutions out there in the market. The only difference between a mechanical seal and packing is that the mechanical seals work very well for the rotating piece of equipment. They give precision and accuracy where is needed as compared to the traditional packing where there are a lot more chances of errors while holding the fluids in.
In this episode, we covered:
- What are seals?
- What are the different types of seals?
- What seal types are best for various applications?
- Can you retrofit different types of seals?
- And much more!
RRP 039 Ultrasound Deep Dive with Adrian Messer
RRP 039 Ultrasound Deep Dive with Adrian Messer
On this week’s episode, I welcome Adrian Messer from UE Systems to the show. We talk more about how to use ultrasound as a predictive maintenance tool and different mechanical faults that you can detect. We also dive into some of the nuts and bolts of setting up an ultrasound program including where, how often to take readings and procedures.
If you enjoy the show, please tell your colleagues in reliability about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn. I’m putting out some bonus content only for that page so if you follow my personal LinkedIn, you might miss out on some great stuff.
If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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SOR 396 Introduction to Use Case 7
Introduction to Use Case 7
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Adam and Fred discussing a new concept to test products to their limit.
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Improve Your Reliability Teaching Skills
Improve Your Reliability Teaching Skills
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As a reliability professional, you will be asked to teach. You are part teacher, coach, mentor, and expert. Being effective enhances the understanding of reliability objectives and methods to achieve them. Let’s explore becoming an amazing teacher. [Read more…]
SOR 395 Professional Tidier Marie Kondo … and How we Can Do the Same in Reliability
Professional Tidier Marie Kondo … and How we Can Do the Same in Reliability
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Chris and Carl discussing how the self discipline of taking care of personal “tidiness” can be applied to improve the organization of reliability activities.
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RM 003 An Interview with Johns Hopkins’ APL Engineer, Wendy Casker
An Interview with Johns Hopkins’ APL Engineer, Wendy Casker
Changing a customer’s mindset is often difficult. When a process is working well, we often resist changing the process, even if the change provides a better result. This is the “Good is the Enemy of Great” syndrome. My guest, Wendy Casker of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory tells of us how she introduced a “better process” to her space customer.
144 – Understanding Asset Hierarchy with Shon Isenhour and Brandon Weil
Understanding Asset Hierarchy with Shon Isenhour and Brandon Weil
Asset hierarchy is very important to utilize the limited resources of an organization in the best way possible. It helps manage time and cost by prioritizing our assets. That’s why every organization needs to have a hierarchy. There are a lot of standards out there to help you build an asset hierarchy. ISO 14224 helps greatly in the matter. It contains guidelines that a maintenance and reliability organization can use to define some sort of organized processes and procedures that are important to have in the facilities. When they have laid out a foundation that way, it gets easier to do all sorts of things.
In this episode, we covered:
- What is Asset Hierarchy?
- Why is the asset hierarchy needed?
- How should an asset hierarchy be organized?
- How to develop an asset hierarchy?
- And much more!
RRP 038 Holistic Physical Asset Management with Dharmen Dhaliah
RRP 038 Holistic Physical Asset Management with Dharmen Dhaliah
On this week’s episode, I welcome Dharmen Dhaliah to the show. Dharmen is the author of Physical Asset Management – An Organizational Challenge and he’s the corporate asset manager for the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada. We discuss the concept of holistic physical asset management, why we need to be better at communicating between corporate silos and why physical asset management requires significant amounts of work with a different mindset from what we currently have.
If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Check out Dharmen Dhaliah’s website to purchase Physical Asset Management – An Organizational Challenge – https://www.dharmendhaliah.com/
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SOR 394 Reliability Engineering versus Management
Reliability Engineering versus Management
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Carl and Chris discussing the subjects of reliability engineering and reliability management. Are they generally the same subject with different focus areas, or are they based on entirely different bodies of knowledge?
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SOR 393 How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
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Kirk and Fred discussing how his career path led to being a reliability engineer and meeting a working with Gregg Hobbs. Ph.D. the reliability leader that gave him a new perspective on HALT and HASS.
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143 – The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg
The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg
In every industry, people skills contribute a lot to the success of an employee. The thing is that engineers and especially reliability engineers are not taught soft skills like change management and communication strategies across different facilities in the maintenance and reliability oriented organizations. The reason that engineers don’t have enough soft skills because organizations don’t have enough time or resources to do this. Most of the times, an organization just doesn’t realize how important it is to be able to communicate the procedures in the right way to the people that are concerned with it.
In this episode, we covered:
- What are the soft skills reliability engineers need?
- Why are these soft skills required?
- How can a reliability engineer develop these skills?
- What skills are most important?
- And much more!
RRP 037 Key Performance Indicators with James Kovacevic
RRP 037 Key Performance Indicators with James Kovacevic
This is a 2 part episode, in the first part, I welcome on Jordan Cohen, director of uMaintenance to talk about his upcoming conference, MaintenanceCon, that I will be speaking at in Chicago in April of 2019. It’s a quick segment but hopefully some of you will join me at that conference!
In the second part of the episode, I welcome back James Kovacevic on to the show. James is the host of Rooted in Reliability podcast and the principal instructor at Eruditio. Be sure to stay tuned to Rooted in Reliability because I will be appearing on that podcast in March talking about oil analysis. James and I talked about Key Performance Indicators, the difference between KPIs and metrics, leading and lagging indicators and James gives us some tips on how to correctly use metrics at our sites.
If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
To find out more about MaintenanceCon – https://www.umaintenance.com/events
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