RRP 116 Culture Change with Michelle Henley & Jeff Shiver

On this week’s episode, I welcome Michelle Henley and Jeff Shiver. We discuss culture change and motivation.

You can connect with our guests here:

Michelle Henley – https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleledethenley/

Jeff Shiver – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffshiver/

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

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221-Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

I’m excited to have Bill Leahy with us for a deep dive into whether organizations should build an RE internally, or they should hire externally to fill those roles. Bill has worked at Eruditio for the past three years and is currently a senior instructor there.

Today, we’re tackling important points such as:

What an RE is
The educational and professional qualifications that an RE needs to have
The pros and cons of internal versus external hires
How to train candidates for the role

… and so much more!

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SOR 571 Safety and Reliability

Safety and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.
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SOR 570 Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis

Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.
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MIM S2:E12 Adrian Messer

An Interview with Adrian Messer

In this week’s episode Masterminds in Maintenance, we are exited to have Adrian Messer, Director of US Operations at UE Systems, on the show!

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So what is up with this ‘Bayesian’ analysis stuff

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

Some of you may have heard of ‘Bayesian analysis.’ You may think this is something fancy that only universities do. Or something we never do because it is all about ‘best guesses.’ Well … neither of these things are true.

Why would you be interested in Bayesian analysis? Simple. It allows you to use EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION you have. This can be expert judgment. Or it can be test data on a similar ‘thing.’ Or it could be combining test data for one part of your ‘thing’ combined with test data for ‘all of your thing.’ [Read more…]

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RRP 115 Why You Are a Leader

On this bonus episode, I talk about why you’re a leader, what leadership is and why poor leadership is what’s holding our industry back.

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RM 048: A Conversation with a China Supply Chain Expert about Importing from and Exporting to China

A Conversation with a China Supply Chain Expert about Importing from and Exporting to China

Episode 48: A Conversation with David Alexander, a China supply chain expert about Importing from and Exporting to China.

We are all familiar with the pros and cons of importing goods from China. China supply chain expert David Alexander discusses pros and cons of doing business in China. David also discusses the lesser known opportunities of exporting US goods to China and China’s appetite for western brands.

David is the Founder and President of Baysource Global, company which provides management of offshore factories, US sales and distribution of Chinese products as well as distribution of US products in to China.

Information on Baysource Global is available here:
https://baysourceglobal.com

David Alexander may be contacted here:
david.alexander@baysource.net

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220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson and George Williams started Reliability X. Joe Anderson is the COO and George is the CEO. Reliability X is a consulting organization that offers the implementation of holistic reliability for manufacturing sites. They also offer coaching, mentoring and teaching in a variety of mechanisms. They have partnered with the University of Wisconsin. Both of them have a vast amount of experiencing totaling 55 years. Here, they share with us some of their nuggets.

In this episode:

What is Reliability
Why should we sell Reliability yet it is the right thing to do
How do you sell to The Upper Management
How do you sell to the Plant Floor

… and so much more!

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SOR 569 Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives

Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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SOR 568 Lessons Learned Working From Home

Lessons Learned Working From Home

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Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.
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The Survivorship Bias Principal

podcast episode with speaker Adam Bahret

In 1942, the US Air Force needed to figure out how to get more bombers home. They were losing them at an atrocious rate. They made a study of where the returning bombers were being hit. It was a great data set. But they should have done better in interpreting that data. Abraham Wald, a mathematician, corrected their assumptions and created the “Survivorship Bias principle.” This principle has changed the way we look at data sets and trends. It is a concept that I apply to field failure data sets regularly—more than once. It has caught evidence of core issues that would have otherwise been missed. [Read more…]

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RRP 114 Are You Leading Your Metrics or Are Your Metrics Leading You?

On this bonus episode, I talk about some examples of misused metrics and I give you ideas to consider when choosing metrics of your own. If you have any examples you’d like to share with me, send me an email to robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

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219-How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

Jeff Shiver works with People and Processes. He is heavily involved with maintenance and reliability. He has made presentations for years. He started out in Procter and Gamble doing controls and engineering. He has also worked with Mars in four different plants and also held cooperate roles. He was a maintenance and production manager. He left in 2006 and started People and Processes.

When it comes to planning and practitioning, he has 25 years of experience. Many people suffer with planning in an organization yet it is the hub of everything. So Jeff tells us more.

Jeff will help us get a look at:

Why do Organizations need to Plan their Work
How Detailed should Job Plans be
How do we know if we are going too deep or not deep at all
How do you deal with a Planner with a strong background in another Trade

… and so much more!

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SOR 567 Are You a Keyboard Jockey?

Are You a Keyboard Jockey?

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Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers. Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.
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