Managing Spare Parts: A Discussion with Fred Schenkelberg

This episode of the weekly podcast gives a detailed insight about spare parts. First of all, a technician should know whether to repair the equipment or replace it. For this, he needs to have some failure data to help him improve his handling strategy. Next question here is that which spare parts do we need to stock? The answer for this can be obtained on the basis of analysis mechanisms such as Failure mode and Effects Analysis or data collected through other reliability measures.
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8D Problem Solving with Fred Schenkelberg

In today’s episode, the topic of the discussion is 8D problem solving. When it comes to problem-solving, there are a lot of procedures and techniques out there but what most of the engineers and reliability professional use is the Eight Disciplines problem solving. It is step by step approach to finding the root cause of the problem and then resolve it effectively and systemically. To perform this method, you need to have a team of different experts in place as it is not the job of a single person. Then, you can start solving issues in the following steps.

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The Importance of the Asset Management Model with Scott Kelley

In today’s podcast, the guest is Scott Kelley and the episode covers the importance of the asset management model. Asset management is not just about having a tactical solution to every problem, you need a strategic model as well which is necessary to be implemented and accepted at all levels of the organization by every working individual. Now for a good model, it needs to have following characteristics.
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Failure data and the CMMS with John Reeve

In today’s episode, the guest is John Reeve and the agenda of discussion is failure data and CMMS. As everyone knows that to maintain and solve issues with the equipment you need to get all the basic data or information available. Computerized maintenance management system helps greatly in this task but first of all, you have to know exactly what kind of data are you looking for and what it means. Now failure data can be anything related to your asset that is the foundation data or then transactional data comes which includes the processing data related to the asset such as the actual cost. Now, next thing to understand is the failure mode which consists of the failed component, component problem and cause code. Once you have this failure data, it becomes very easy to run the basic failure analysis which is necessary at certain levels.
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