Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
I often describe reliability work as we do everything quality does, and we do it over time. Quality folks may disagree. What is not in dispute is that in reliability engineering, we use a lot of different ‘quality’ tools. That is because many quality tools lend themselves to data analysis and problem-solving, [Read more…]
Industry 4.0 is a current paradigm. Plants are being digitized and maintenance is evolving towards 4.0. The digitization of critical assets has led to a strong interest in detailed condition monitoring during their lifetime, using different online condition monitoring techniques.
Online lubricant monitoring can be widely deployed to provide early fault diagnosis to improve reliability and boost cost savings. The use of this advanced data helps operators make better O&M decisions and optimize asset conditions and lifetime management. Online lubricant monitoring is applied to assess the wear signature and measure the oil degradation and contamination processes for different equipment, even in the most extreme scenarios. [Read more…]
Welcome Simon back to the podcast. Simon is the founder of Samotics and has been involved in technology throughout his Career. Today we will talk about capabilities trap. Although briefly, tell us more about you:
Involved with technology, our guest focuses on: machine learning, and the conversion of data into information.
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Episode 71: A Conversation with Manufacturer’s Representatives About Sales and Support Post Covid 19
Four manufacturer’s representatives share their experience in supporting their customer’s needs. They share how sales and support has changed over the years and review the “new normal”.
My guests are:
David Leventhal
Restronics
dleventhal@restronics.com
Joan Carrol-Kennedy
Restronics
jcarroll@restronics.com
Murray Percival Jr.
Murray Percival
mapercival@murraypercival.com
Todd Wittmer
Wittco Sales
toddwittmer@wittcosales.com
Chris and Fred discuss this thing called ‘Wright’s Law’ which is a really fascinating way of describing how things improve as we create more of them. And why is this relevant for reliability engineering? Does ‘reliability growth’ ring a bell?
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Chris and Fred discuss how important maintenance culture is – especially when it comes to safety-critical systems. Like ‘cable cars’ used to transport people up ski slopes. But unfortunately (like the recent accident that occurred in Italy that resulted in 14 deaths) toxic maintenance culture can lead to disastrous consequences. And this tends to happen across the world on a regular basis. Why does this happen?
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In this episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have the incredible honor of interviewing Indranil Sircar, CTO of Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft. Ryan and Indranil tackle a few questions sourced from members of The Maintenance Community Slack Group. And, Indranil shares his vision for the future of the manufacturing industry. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Ron Moore in Episode 8 of this series. Ron specializes in maintenance, manufacturing performance leadership, and engaging the workforce, management. Ron is the author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, 5th ed.; of What Tool? When? A Management Guide, 2nd ed.; of Where Do We Start Our Improvement Program?; of Business Fables & Foibles; of A Common Sense Approach to Defect Elimination; and of Our Transplant Journey: A Caregiver’s Story, as well as some 70 journal articles.
You may have heard of QMS but are not sure how your activities fit in. Or, you’ve heard of QFD, ISO 9000, Six Sigma, Lean…these cryptic names that you’re not sure what they’re about. You may be doing activities under one of your company’s procedures and asking, “Why am I spending time on this?” Sometimes it’s good to re-orient to the big picture. That’s what we’ll be doing in this episode: reorienting to the QMS.
We’ll also talk about some of the standard QMS (Quality Management System) philosophies:
Do you understand how your parts fail? What story are they telling you?
In this episode we welcome Shane Turcott & Sanya to the show to discuss how parts fail. Sanya & Steve recently took Shane’s course and loved it so much they wanted to do a special episode on it. Tune in and learn what great information was shared and how maintenance teams can use the information a failure surface of a fracture.
Shane Turcott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-turcott-3a2ab51b/
Steel Image: https://steelimage.com/
Sanya Mathura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanya-mathura-mle-362438129/
Strategic Reliability Solutions http://strategicreliabilitysolutions.com/
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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Welcome Rick Clonan who has been in maintenance for 30 years working both in defense and industry. More about Rick:
Currently at SMRP working as implementation and training manager.
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘distribution parameters’ mean when it comes to random processes. Specifically failure random processes. This is an interesting podcast in response to a question from one of our listeners – which are podcasts we love!
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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have Christine Witte, Director of Product and Services at Seam Group, on the show! Ryan and Christine discuss data optimization and analytics in the manufacturing sector, as well as provide practical steps on how manufacturers can make sense of the data they are collecting and deduct information that comes out of their systems. Listen today!
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Carl and Fred discussing the topic of giving and receiving feedback, and how it supports professional development.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader David Hurst in Episode 7 of this series. David specializes in developing and updating the reliability maintenance program for the $12B+ assets across the complex as a Branch Manager at National Aerospace Solutions.
