RRP 043 Failing Companies & Personal Development with Calvin Williams

This week, I welcome on the CEO of Impruver Technologies, Calvin Williams.  Last time Calvin was on we spent a lot of time getting into continuous improvement and some of the strategies behind it.  This time I wanted to dive deeper into a 5 Why video that Calvin made about New England Confectionery Company’s bankruptcy, however we spent more time on the continuous improvement mindset and personal development.

I’m looking for a new opportunity in maintenance & reliability so if you hear of any open positions that I might be suited for please let me know on LinkedIn or send me an email at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

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The book mentioned on the show – “The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results” by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

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RRP 042 Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Deep Dive with Holcombe Baird

This week, I welcome on the principal root cause analysis (RCA) investigator for Reliability Center, Holcombe Baird.  We take a deeper look at the RCA process and Holcombe gives us his insights on what makes a good investigator and how we can avoid some common mistakes.

I’m looking for a new opportunity in maintenance & reliability so if you hear of any open positions that I might be suited for please let me know on LinkedIn or send me an email at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

I mentioned this last week but the offer still stands.  I have some more time so if you have any reliability questions, frustrations or anything I can help with, I am happy to jump on a phone call with you and give you my advice.  A bonus is, if I don’t have a good answer for you, I will get in contact with the right person to get you the help you need.  I want to be clear and say I’m not charging for this and I won’t try to sell you anything, I’m just doing this to bring more value to you.

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RRP 041 Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered with Jesus Sifonte

This week, I welcome Jesus Sifonte to the show.  Jesus wrote Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered with James Reyes-Picknell.  He is  also the founder of PdM Tech and Conscious Reliability. We discuss what makes a great RCM facilitator, what makes RCM-R different from classic RCM and common mistakes people make when doing an RCM.
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RRP 040 Risk, Decision Making & Uncertainty with Devin Luquist

This week, I welcome my good friend Devin Luquist to the show.  Most of you won’t know Devin but he’s a chemical engineer who has worked in oil & gas for the last 7 years before starting his own artificial intelligence company, Woven Cognition.  Devin and I went to MIT, played on the varsity water polo team, were fraternity brothers and took economics courses together.  In the episode, we take a deeper look at risk, decision-making and uncertainty.  We give you some ideas on how to take risk into your decisions, how to deal with variance and introduce expected value.

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RRP 039 Ultrasound Deep Dive with Adrian Messer

On this week’s episode, I welcome Adrian Messer from UE Systems to the show.  We talk more about how to use ultrasound as a predictive maintenance tool and different mechanical faults that you can detect.   We also dive into some of the nuts and bolts of setting up an ultrasound program including where, how often to take readings and procedures.

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RRP 038 Holistic Physical Asset Management with Dharmen Dhaliah

On this week’s episode, I welcome Dharmen Dhaliah to the show.  Dharmen is the author of Physical Asset Management – An Organizational Challenge and he’s the corporate asset manager for the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada.  We discuss the concept of holistic physical asset management, why we need to be better at communicating between corporate silos and why physical asset management requires significant amounts of work with a different mindset from what we currently have.

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RRP 037 Key Performance Indicators with James Kovacevic

This is a 2 part episode, in the first part, I welcome on Jordan Cohen, director of uMaintenance to talk about his upcoming conference, MaintenanceCon, that I will be speaking at in Chicago in April of 2019.  It’s a quick segment but hopefully some of you will join me at that conference!

In the second part of the episode, I welcome back James Kovacevic on to the show.  James is the host of Rooted in Reliability podcast and the principal instructor at Eruditio.  Be sure to stay tuned to Rooted in Reliability because I will be appearing on that podcast in March talking about oil analysis.  James and I talked about Key Performance Indicators, the difference between KPIs and metrics, leading and lagging indicators and James gives us some tips on how to correctly use metrics at our sites.

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RRP 036 Listener Questions about AI with Rajiv Anand

On this week’s show, I welcome on Rajiv Anand, the founder and CEO of Quartic.AI.  During this episode, Rajiv explains different types of projects where AI would be a good solution, how much data we need to get started and answers some other listener questions.

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RRP 035 Artificial Intelligence Primer with Adam McElhinney

On this week’s episode, I welcome on Adam McElhinney.  Adam is the Chief of Machine Learning and AI Strategy from Uptake and, in his spare time, he teaches computer science and math at the Illinois Institute of Technology.  During this episode, Adam introduces us to machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, deep learning and gives us some tips on how to implement this technology at our site.

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RRP 034 Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) with Lucas Marino

This week on Rob’s Reliability Project, I welcome Lucas Marino back on to the show for a discussion on Level of Repair Analysis or LORA.  LORA is one of Lucas’ specialties so it’s a pleasure to have him on to discuss it with us.

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RRP 033 What Should Reliability Engineers Do? with James Hunting

On this week’s episode, I welcome James Hunting back on to the show.  We talk about what reliability engineers should be working on, Pareto/bad actor lists and why maintenance work can be appealing over reliability work.

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I’m preparing for some great episodes on artificial intelligence with experts from Uptake and Quartic, so please reach out by January 11, 2019, if you have any questions about AI that you want answered on the show and I will be happy to ask your questions to the experts!

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RRP 032 Calibration with John Cummins & Ross Lane

On this week’s episode, I welcome John Cummins and Ross Lane from Cal Opex on to the show.  We talk about the importance of calibration and data quality.

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RRP 031 Happy Holidays, Public Speaking and IMC Wrap Up

On this week’s episode, George Williams, Joe Anderson and Paul Crocker sit down with me to talk about public speaking, the International Maintenance Conference (IMC) and where we’re going to be in 2019. Happy Holidays and I sincerely appreciate you listening!

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RRP 030 Alcohol & Weight Loss with Dr. Liam LaTouche, ND

On this week’s episode, Dr. Liam LaTouche, ND returns to the show. We talk about staying healthy over the holidays, alcohol consumption and effective weight loss.

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RRP 029 Ultrasound with Sean Miller

On this week’s episode, I welcome Sean Miller from UE Systems on to the show. We talk about using ultrasound for lubrication and as a predictive maintenance tool.

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