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108 – Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour

108 – Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour

Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour

In the maintenance and reliability industry, we have maintenance engineers, manufacturing engineers, and reliability engineers. There is a little bit difference between the types. A maintenance engineer is there to make sure the equipment is in running condition as soon as possible once a failure occurs. He has to get the asset operational the quickest possible time. He performs day to day routine checks to make sure the asset is running without defects. He does precision maintenance and promotes industry best practices. He is responsible for checking alignment, balancing, and other technical effects that might be overlooked by others.
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107 – Maintenance Metrics with Brandon Weil

107 – Maintenance Metrics with Brandon Weil

Maintenance Metrics with Brandon Weil

Whenever we talk about successful business practices, planning and scheduling remains a key element. Not only it helps you track performance but it also helps you build on the initial layout later on. Through performance management, you will know what’s going on inside an activity and process. Now, performance management is the combination of systems that are responsible for achieving the goals of the organization. These may include accountability, assessment, and measurement techniques that are used in the organization. On the lower level, metrics are being used to measure performance.
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106 – How to Learn from Failures with Fred Schenkelberg

106 – How to Learn from Failures with Fred Schenkelberg

How to Learn from Failures with Fred Schenkelberg

No matter how good you are at your job, there are always failures in the systems because of some reason. You can’t stop all of them but you can learn from them. There is always something to learn when a failure occurs. Whether it is finding the root cause or devising a solution to prevent it in the future. What happens in the industry that we forget what failures occurred in the last few years?—over the time. This is something that is alarming. It is your job to remember or communicate with those who might. That is how you can better assess the nature and root cause of the failure.
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105 – The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

105 – The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

The main goal of every organization is to get the quality product in the market. That’s why they spend millions of dollars to stay on the plan they had in place. They can’t do that if their equipment keeps failing. The only way to make it sure is to maintain it properly. And that is a job for reliability engineers. They are the ones who maintain the assets of the company. They find the cause of the failures and stop it by making the system design better. They play a role similar to the process engineer but their job has a wider scope.
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