Pursuing Ribbons

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Greg and Fred discuss the importance of the pursuit of ribbons.  What are ribbons?  They are the  badges, degrees, brands, and certificates that we all strive for.   They confer knowledge, skills, and abilities to others.  They are the things of life that we do for personal improvement and enrichment.  Greg believes the pursuit of ribbons or recognition is what we all do from the day we are born to the day we pass on.  Fred believes knowledge by itself is sufficient.  What do you think?
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High Precision Planning and Maintenance

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Philip and Fred discuss new shiny objects and why digital twins and IIOT will not solve your core problems.

High Precision Planning (HPP) supports High Precision Maintenance (HPM) which is a program running in elite industries today.

The emphasis on HPP is an absolute requirement to achieve HPM.

The benefits of achieving HPM have been demonstrated to be an improvement up to 250% in first-pass quality.
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Asset Management vs Performance

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Philip and Fred discuss the important differences between Asset Management “Systems” and “Asset Performance”. Philip has been teaching at the university level for over 10 years as an industry expert and has concluded that adherence to Asset Management System and certification does not equate into great asset performance. There is a very big disconnect between the asset performance of those organizations who are actually certified in asset management systems like ISO 55000. If you have a good Asset management “System” in the industry today it does not guarantee that you will have great “Asset Performance”.

Why ISO “management systems” like ISO 9000 and ISO 55000 and ISO 14000 are not well suited to produce top “Asset Performance”.

ISO is after all – a self-confession – “say what you do – then back it up with documentation to prove you do what you say!”

Why is poor asset performance possible form certified organizations? Why is top performance in an industry occuring where organizations are not certified to ISO 55000? Why do digital twins fail to deliver?

Remember – “the pursuit of Performance is the only thing that makes you Excellent!”.
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Effect and Likelihood

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Carl and Fred discuss a listener question on FMEA, about reducing the severity level through mitigation strategy. Specifically, can FMEA reduce the likelihood of the effect of failure?
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Conveying FMEA Results

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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting listener question. The listener’s management asked him to create an “eye-popping” chart that summarizes the results on an FMEA.
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Supply Management and Context

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Greg and Fred discuss why today’s business model is often based on managing an organization’s brand and outsourcing design, reliability, and quality.
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Telling the Boss NO

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Greg and Fred discuss work communications and job politics.  Greg takes the management point of view.  Fred advocates the individual contributor point of view.
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New Position Advice

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Kirk and Fred discuss the advice we would give a engineer just starting a career in Reliability Engineering
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Reliability Allocation Methods

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Kirk and Fred discuss reliability allocations for individual components and subsystems.
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