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Operational excellence allows for businesses and its leadership to improve all areas of performance. It covers guidelines and best practices to ensure infrastructure is continually running at the top of its game.
Ramesh Gulati, the Reliability Sherpa, is back on the show to chat with Ryan about this topic — what it is, how a facility should strive to be operationally excellent, and more.
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SIPOC diagrams can be used at the beginning of improvement projects, to help teams gauge the scope of a change or to help the team get on the same page. These diagrams can also help a team understand a complex system with many people involved or lots of information exchanges.
SIPOC is short for Suppliers-Inputs-Process-Outputs-Customers.
In creating one with our team, we usually don’t fill it out left to right. We talk about how to build one in this episode.
We also step through an example. Look below for the results.
Ed Stanek is the COO of Asset Analytix
Sean Mullen Global Plant Engineering and Operation Effectiveness Leader at 3M
Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the crossover knowledge between asset reliability and product reliability. What are the similarities? What are the differences? What about a potential career change between one and the other?
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Chris and Fred discuss the use of this thing called ‘Cpk’ which is what we call a ‘capability index.’ This is a measure of how ‘capable’ a typically manufacturing process is, which helps us understand the percentage of defects we create. But reliability engineers often see this as something that ‘manufacturing teams’ or ‘quality people’ do. But is it?
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Data centers are responsible for so much transfer of information. And, data centers are only continuing to grow and become more complex. Thus, managing maintenance and reliability for these center can provide some unique challenges.
George Parada, Global Asset Management Quality and Reliability Manager at Meta (previously known as Facebook), shares his insights around this topic, and he and Ryan dive into cooling infrastructure, which is critical to keep data centers up and running.
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In Part I of Episode 7, my recurring guest, the phenomenal Keith Fong and I take you to a chat that will be worth your time!
Learning is an essential activity for any individual or organization; it is through learning that you develop skills you don’t currently possess or develop a higher level of competency in a given skill. Yet, one wonders why conventional training methods organizations typically utilize (classroom-type, lecture-type or through consultants) don’t deliver on their promise of making the participants competent in the subject matter.
Episode summary:
Training in organizations Why is the lecture-type (a.k.a. industrial) approach to education and training not effective and is really “the easy way out”? What is the active learning model? Leadership’s reponsibility; everyone is a leader. “If the student doesn’t learn, it is the teacher’s fault” An example of a successful active learning program implementation (featured in Part 2 of the episode)
There’s a model that can help us visualize and consider the different barriers to harm: The Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation.
Learn what makes up this model and how ideas are represented. There are also different ways that the model is being used today.
How can we design for controls, policies, or actions that are part of the use of our product but outside of our control? We step through an example of a situation where we’re thinking about our product design in this way.
Some of my best friends are quality people. This is despite the notion that reliability is just one of many quality factors, while I suggest reliability is all of quality and over time. There are a lot of similarities and common objectives with quality and reliability efforts. Plus, there are a few differences.
Thank you to my friend and colleague Trevor Galbraith of Global SMT for allowing me to broadcast from his studio at the IPC APEX Expo in San Diego.
Today’s episode features conversations with four guests:
Jesper Lykke from Viscom talks about inspection systems.
jesper.lykke@viscomusa.com
Greg Papandrew from Direct PCB talks about PCB buying and his new book “PCB Basics for Buyers”
greg@boardbuying.com
Kevin Huo from EM Solutions talks about fast-turn contract assembly.
kevinh@emsolutionstech.com
And, our very own pirate, Michelle Ogihara from Saika USA talks about the advantages of joining trade associations.
michelle@seikausa.com
It’s my pleasure to welcome Thomas welcome back to the podcast.
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘Cpk’ and other ‘capability indices’ mean … especially when it comes to reliability. Never heard of this or want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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Chris is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) through the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) and served as SMRP’s M&RK Body of Knowledge Committee Chair from 2010 through 2014 and is currently serving on the Best Practices Committee. Chris joined Allied Reliability in January of 2006 because he shared Allied’s passion for Maintenance and Reliability. Chris is the co-author of the book “Clean, Green, & Reliable – How equipment reliability delivers low cost, energy efficient assets to plants around the world”. As Director of Operations, he is responsible for continuously improving and expanding Allied’s capabilities and offerings to provide additional value to their customers.
Chris has over 16 years of experience across industries including primary metals, mining, food & beverage, power generation, pulp and paper, automotive, and pharmaceutical. Primarily, his focus has been in engineering, reliability, design, maintainability, and energy management. He understands the challenges that companies face and has a tremendous ability to design innovative solutions that work for them. Besides expert skills and a strong drive to succeed, he makes improving asset health an enjoyable venture. Chris’s exceptional abilities in these areas have set him apart and he is considered among his peers to be a trusted resource in this field.
Beyond Chris’s contributions as a consultant and director, he has taught and spoke at numerous seminars/conferences and written multiple articles to help educate thousands of engineers and maintenance personnel worldwide on Maintenance & Reliability and Energy Management best practices.
Specialties: Management, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Power Quality Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Motor Circuit Analysis, Industrial Controls, and Energy Efficiency.
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The global oil demand is rapidly recovering back toward pre-pandemic levels in major oil and gas-consuming countries. And, with the demand for oil being greater than expected, there is a surge in oil prices all around the world. What will it take for these prices to fall? How will this impact our global economy? What are the necessary steps to ensure a smooth recovery?
Find out more in this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast — with host, Ryan Chan, and special guest, Jonathan David, Founder of the Maintenance Institute Africa and Maintenance Supervisor at Shell!
