TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Suzane Greeman in Episode 26 of this series. Suzane Greeman is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions, a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a senior asset management consultant and instructor in North America working with clients who manage assets in excess of $75 Billion. She has over 23 years of experience across several asset management disciplines and has implemented asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment, airport, and maritime transportation assets.

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QDD 030 Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

We have good requirements for the reliability of our design. We also have a preliminary design with ideas of how we’re going to manufacture it. Is our design idea good enough? Are there things we should do to improve its performance and reliability?

For a physical product, there are three general stages in its life cycle. In many cases the failure rates of physical products can be represented by a reliability bathtub curve. This curve is really a plot of a hazard rate function, also known as a failure rate function. We talk about data collection in the early design phase, what types of failures are typical for each phase, and design decisions we may make to improve our reliability, based on the failure rate function we plot for our system.

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Helping Products Survive Transportation

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

Besides building your product inside your customer’s facility, your product will require some form of transportation to move from your factory to your customer. When your product doesn’t work ‘out of the box’, that is considered ‘not good’ for customer satisfaction.
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MD 190 Beyond Safety Compliance W/ Tanya Hewitt

Is safety one of your companies core values? What is a core value? How can we actually improve safety?

Safety is always a topic at the forefront of maintenance tasks. Are we taking the correct approach to safety? Or is there a better way? This week we welcome Tanya Hewitt to the show to discuss her company, Beyond Safety Compliance. We learned a lot talking with Tanya and we are very excited to bring this episode to you.

Episode Shout Outs:

Tanya Hewitt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-hewitt-55804529/

Beyond Safety Compliance: https://www.beyondsafetycompliance.ca/

Webinar Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/beyond-safety-compliance-31631619159

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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RM 082: A Conversation with Solder Paste Expert Paul Salerno

A Conversation with Solder Paste Expert Paul Salerno

My guest today is Paul Salerno. Paul holds an MBA with specialization in finance and marketing from Rutgers Graduate School of Business. He is the Global Portfolio Manager at MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions with expertise in product lifecycle management and development of strategic technology roadmaps for the global surface mount technology business. Paul works with customers in both Europe and Asia with customers in automotive, computing, communications and consumer electronic markets.

Paul and I discuss soldering materials including “high reliability” solder paste, low and ultra-low solder pastes, and design-for-use solder paste selection processes.

Paul may be reached here:
Paul Salerno
Portfolio Manager, SMT
Assembly Solutions
Paul.Salerno@MacDermidAlpha.com

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286 – Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

It’s my pleasure to welcome back Fred Schenkel Berg to the podcast.

In this episode we covered:

I see a lot of people working remote, maybe not full-time, but part-time as reliability engineers, is this the new normal and can they effectively do their job working remote?
Is this identifying gaps in that data that we’ve overcome in other ways, or is it increasing the demand for different types of data?
How has the facilitation changed, for example, for facilitating RCA or FMEA, if you’ve seen that done remotely? Well, have you heard of it being done well?

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MM S4:E05 Shweta Saxena

Shweta Saxena

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Shweta Saxena, CEO of MachineMax, on the show! Ryan and Shweta explore the topic of technological innovation — especially in the mining and construction industry — and how critical it is for the industry to adopt and adapt to new technology. Listen today!
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RM 081: IPC APEX Expo 2022 Technical Program

IPC APEX Expo 2022 Technical Program

On this episode, I spoke with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly and IPC Technical Program Co-Chairs Stan Rak (SF Rak Company) and Bev Christian (HDP User Group) about the upcoming IPC APEX Expo 2022 live technical conference.

We discuss the following topics:
• IPC’s “Factory of the Future Pavilion”
• IPC’s 3-Hour Professional Development Courses (31 courses!)
• IPC’s Technical Program (4 technology tracks each with 29 technical presentations.
• IPC’s Poster Sessions

IPC APEX Expo 2022 takes place January 22-27 in San Diego, CA.
More information is available here:
IPC APEX Expo 2022
https://www.ipcapexexpo.org/

Professional Development Course information is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/uzwwe49b

Technical Conference info is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/2bpcxpzp

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SOR 703 Hospital Power Supply Modeling

Hospital Power Supply Modeling

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss a real-world problem … how do we use reliability engineering tools to work out how select a hospital power supply system.
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PR S2:E6 Matt Schuman, Madison Metropolitan Sewer District

Matt Schuman, Madison Metropolitan Sewer District

-Graduated from Carthage College with a Degree in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Business

-Work for Caterpillar, Inc. for 5 Years in a newly developed Asset Management Team focused in the Mining division. Worked with Regional Teams to gather data on major component life cycles and repair standards. This data was used to develop Total Cost of Ownership models to assist with life cycle costing on new and existing equipment. Caterpillar was also where he got his first taste of Continuous Improvement through their Green Belt Certification process.

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SOR 702 Podcasting and Reliability

Podcasting and Reliability

Abstract

James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.
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TLC 025 Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Shami Mudunkotuwa in Episode 25 of this series. Shami is is a product of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka and a Chartered Engineer currently working for Ceylon Electricity Board.

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QDD 029 Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts

Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts

Flowcharting isn’t just useful for manufacturing processes. We can use them in lots of ways to help us with design of products and to identify quality characteristics. After all, products are used by people, and the way in which they use them is a process.

compare ideal vs. actual flowcharts
identify where there is disagreement about correct sequence or steps
identify common mistakes/problems at each step to mistake-proof the process and design
look for holds or delays, find the critical path

We also talk about specific flowchart analyses and how they can be used to analyze the user process for design.

Cost-of-Poor-Quality
Critical-to-Quality
Value-Added Analysis
Deployment Flowchart

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MD 189 Remote Ultrasound Guided Lubrication with Chris Hallum

When you combine friction measurement with ultrasound and IoT, you get a game-changer for remote friction-based lubrication.

This week we welcome Chris Hallum from UE Systems to the show to talk all about ultrasound and the OnTrak SmartLube

Episode Shout Outs:

Chris Hallum – https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhallum/

UE Systems SmartLube: https://www.uesystems.com/ontrak-smartlube/

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent

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285 – Conserving Water through Proper Sealing Selection with David Brewer

Conserving Water through Proper Sealing Selection with David Brewer

It’s my pleasure to welcome David Brewer to the podcast. He is Atlantic regional manager for SEPCO sealing equipment.

I spend most of my time in paper mills, chemical plants, food processing wastewater treatment plants. I work with distributors and solve problems when it comes to process equipment.

In this episode we covered:

What are some of the common things you see come about that we must address when it comes to solving sealing problems?
Water conservation is a big deal. Why are organizations so concerned with this right now?
Now, where is this water loss occurring?

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