Eric Arnum Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Eric concerning his online newsletter, Warranty Week, concerning his ongoing reporting on the warranty industry.
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SOR 425 Leaders That Don’t Understand
Leaders That Don’t Understand
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘Leaders that Don’t Understand.’ And by ‘Don’t Understand’ … we mean they don’t understand what their organization sells or does. Sometimes this can work (within reason). Leaders who are not experts in their product or services can still be effective if they know that they need to listen to those around them. But this can go too far – if all decisions need to be collectively agreed by a large cadre of people before the leader in question agrees to make a decision. This isn’t leadership at all. The concept of having ‘everyone on board’ can decimate decision making speed, innovation and a focus on customers. Have you had a similar experience?
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RM 016 – Lessons Learned from a Contract Manufacturer & Their Customer Who Sued Them
Lessons Learned from a Contract Manufacturer & Their Customer Who Sued Them
What happens when an electronic contract manufacturer follows their customer’s instructions to the detriment of the product? Product failures, blame, drama, and a really big lawsuit.
Mike Konrad reviews the trials and tribulations of a contract manufacturer and their customer. Assembly residue-related failures (ECM) contributed to product failures, product recalls, and, ultimately, a multi-million-dollar lawsuit.
Misguided “best practice” techniques only made matters worse. This podcast will discuss what factors contributed to the “perfect storm” of product failures. Factors that go as far back to original product designs, printed circuit board fabrication, storage and handling, assembly, testing, and coating. While mistakes were made all along the way, product failures could have been avoided with a few simple process changes, adding mere pennies to the cost of each assembly while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation.
159 Maintenance Metrics with Stuart Fergusson
Maintenance Metrics with Stuart Fergusson
Maintenance metrics is a very important part of a maintenance and reliability program because you can’t improve what you can’t measure. Performance measurement is necessary to derive those improvements that will help you carry out your maintenance activities the best way possible. It is a cycle that can be divided into three steps. First you have to enable you team members, then you have to train them, and in the end you have to measure their performance on a consistent basis using some standard KIPs. It is repetitive process and you have to perform these three steps often to make sure everything is going according to the plan.
In this episode, we covered:
- What steps to take?
- The differance between KPIs and metrics!
- Where to start!
- And much more!
PR 015 Our Interview of Rob Kalwarowsky, Host of Rob’s Reliability Project
Our Interview of Rob Kalwarowsky, Host of Rob’s Reliability Project
Join us as we interview Rob Kalwarowsky, host and creator of Rob’s Reliability Project as we discuss his learnings, his offerings, and what the futrue holds.
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RRP 053 – 5 Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers with Peter Horsburgh
RRP 053 – 5 Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers with Peter Horsburgh
This week on Rob’s Reliability Project, I welcome on Peter Horsburgh to talk about his book, 5 Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers. We talk about what the 5 habits are, how to apply them and Peter gives us his top tips on how to become an extraordinary reliability engineer!
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out http://robsreliability.com/ for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
In addition, if your company sells products or services to maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals and you would be interested in having your message spread to engaged industry professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. There are advertising options available from appearing on the podcast, video/picture content to having an ad read on the show. If one of those appeals to your company, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com to get more information.
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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
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SOR 424 Motors That Almost Last Forever
Motors That Almost Last Forever
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Kirk and Fred discussing old gasoline motors used in lawn equipment and how they can last what seems forever.
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SOR 423 Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent failures of the new folding Samsung Galaxy phone and what might have been missed in their testing video.
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158 LORA with Lucas Marino
Level Of Repair Analysis with Lucas Marino
Most of the organizations in the maintenance and reliability industry have limited resources and they want to make the best use of what they have got. If the maintenance requirements of an organizations don’t match its resources, it is always going to result into an increased cost and decreased employee performance. The type of maintenance that an asset required throughout its life cycle needs to be performed in a balanced way. That’s why it is so important to have a maintenance philosophy when you are planning the life cycle cost of an asset. Level of Repair Analysis or LORA is a framework that helps you manage between maintenance cost and resources.
In this episode, we covered:
- What is LORA?
- How to start using LORA!
- The value of having a maintenance philosophy!
- And much more!
RRP 052 Proper Bearing Installation with Bernd Seidenthal
RRP 052 Proper Bearing Installation with Bernd Seidenthal
This week on Rob’s Reliability Project, I welcome on Bernd Seidenthal to talk about proper bearing installation. We discuss why installing bearings properly is important, what people get wrong when installing bearings and Bernd gives his top tips for how to install them correctly.
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out robsreliability.com for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
In addition, if your company sells products or services to maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals and you would be interested in having your message spread to engaged industry professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. There are advertising options available from appearing on the podcast, video/picture content to having an ad read on the show. If one of those appeals to your company, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com to get more information.
If you haven’t signed up for my weekly reliability newsletter with extra exclusive content, go to http://robsreliability.com/email-list/ and sign up!
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SOR 422 What Do I Do When the MTBF is Imposed on Me?
What Do I Do When MTBF is Imposed?
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Chris and Fred discuss what happens when you can’t avoid having the MTBF imposed upon you – even if it is your own organization and not the customer. Perhaps you are told that ‘our competitors quote the MTBF … so we have to as well!’ But you can (sneakily) tailor test data to get whatever MTBF you want. You can make life easy on yourself by not challenging this paradigm (noting that you will most likely get an unhappy customer). But it is almost impossible to apportion MTBF goals to individual designers that even allow the motivated ones to create a reliable system. So what do you do? Listen to this podcast to help you on your reliability journey.
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PR 014 Our Interview with Paul Crocker of Kansas City Water
Our Interview with Paul Crocker of Kansas City Water
Tune in as we talk to one of the superstars of reliability and one of our favorite people alive! We talk about his journey and how he has overcome obstacles to get desired results.
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Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis
Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis
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There are three approaches to setting tolerance limits for design elements. Each has ramifications for the eventual manufacturability and reliability performance—design for manufacturability and reliability hinges on correctly setting design tolerances. [Read more…]
SOR 421 Specification Requires Testing… Really?
Specification Requires Testing… Really?
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Chris and Fred discuss scenarios where it is (for whatever reason) impossible to demonstrate reliability through testing. Some organizations think that if you can’t demonstrate through testing … then it can’t be a requirement that appears in a specification. So … does this mean that the customer can’t get something that is reliable if we can’t test for it? … can customers even ask for it? Of course they can. The customer knows what they want. Everyone needs to understand that you can verify performance through activities that don’t involve testing (… like analysis). This is how it works for nuclear power plants … so what makes your organization special? Listen to this podcast if this intrigues you.
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RM 015 – Scoop TV Interviews Mike Konrad
Scoop TV Interviews Mike Konrad
Today’s episode turns the table on our usual format. Normally, I interview an industry expert. Today, I’m the subject of the interview. My friend and colleague Phil Stoten from Scoop TV interviewed me a few months ago where we discussed cleaning and cleanliness testing as method to improve reliability. This interview took place on a crowded and relatively noisy trade show floor, so pardon the background noise. Here’s that interview.
