AI Names ‘Best’ Reliability Engineers
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Kirk and Fred discuss a recent AI search topic: who is the best reliability engineer?
CR220: Maintenance Technology is a People Thing with Brit Bartolini MaintainX
Maintenance Technology is a People Thing with Brit Bartolini MaintainX
CMMSradio sits down with Brit Bartolini, Account Director at MaintainX, to discuss bridging the gap between the plant floor and corporate goals. With deep family roots in manufacturing, Brit shares how empathy, curiosity, and simplicity drive successful maintenance transformation.
One standout story: a client saved $2.5 million in six months by replacing a legacy CMMS with MaintainX — proving that practical, people-first tech delivers real ROI.
Key Takeaways:
- Walk the floor — you can’t fix what you don’t understand.
- Start small to build trust and measurable wins.
- Simplicity drives adoption; show, don’t tell.
- Data visibility is often the biggest hidden problem.
- True digital transformation is about people, not software.
SOR 1188 Electronics in Today’s Vehicles
CR219: Maintenance Sea Stories III Veterans Day 2025 with Bryan Bieschke and Howard Penrose
Bryan Bieschke and Howard Penrose – These two U.S. Navy vets join for an annual tradition to honor and celebrate Veteran’s day (11.11) – Maintenance Sea Stories III with plenty of stories, anecdotes, unknown U.S. Navy slang, and swearing!
Tune in to hear about skaters and shit bags, pencil whipping and FUBAR, and a ton of other shenanigans! Get out there and thank a veteran today, and on Veteran’s day, with a simple gesture like a coffee or s simple, “Thank you for your service!”
CR218: Friends of Nano with Jennifer Zach of MentorAPM Asset Management
In this episode of CMMSradio, Jennifer Zach of MentorAPM Asset Management joins us on Friends of Nano at SMRP 2025 to talk maintenance, MentorLens, and more! Tune in for a fun conversation!
Thanks for the fun and insightful discussion Jennifer!
R40.012: Customer-Centric Reliability with Yuri Grinshteyn from Google
Customer-Centric Reliability with Yuri Grinshteyn from Google
On this episode of Reliability 4.0, we talk with Yuri Grinshteyn, a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google. Yuri explains how Google’s team helps keep their systems running smoothly for customers.
He talks about finding and fixing problems quickly, using data and automation to make things work better, and why it’s important to focus on what customers need. If you want to learn how to keep your systems reliable and your customers happy, this episode is for you!
SOR 1187 They Are Just Not Listening
They Are Just Not Listening
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“They’re just not listening.” But what if the problem isn’t their ears—it’s their incentives? Join Fred and Mojan as they explore why people resist change, what actually motivates behavior, and how to drive change when you don’t have formal authority. ᐅ Play Episode
CR217: AI to Aqueducts with Christer Idhammar at Mainstream UK Summit 2025
AI to Aqueducts with Christer Idhammar at Mainstream UK Summit 2025
We catch up with Christer Idhammar of IDCON at the Mainstream UK Summit 2025 in Birmingham – He gives us insights into his speaking session and a few other things from his 64+ years in the industry! Go read his book Knocking Bolts and follow all of his content! Christer is a real deal pro that wants to help us all never forget the basics while embracing technology in the right way!
Thank you, Christer, for joining us on CMMSradio! It is an honor to showcase your insights, and experiences, in maintenance and reliability! [Read more…]
SOR 1186 MTBF to Weibull?
MTBF to Weibull?
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Enrico and Fred discuss a listener’s question about the process to convert a MTBF value to a Weibull curve.
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CR216: What Are We Doing Here with Will Ocean at Mainstream UK Summit 2025
What Are We Doing Here with Will Ocean at Mainstream UK Summit 2025
Will Ocean, of Maintain Reliability and #Reliabilitygang, joins CMMSradio at the inaugural Mainstream UK Summit in Birmingham (Millennium Point) to talk maintenance and reliability! This one goes deep and covers communication, condition monitoring, DISC, and more!
Tune in for a real, raw, and unscripted journey that covers some of the beginning, on Will’s journey into Maintenance and Reliability, along with a TON of other amazing topics!
Connect with Maintain Reliability: https://maintainreliability.co.uk/
Reliability Gang Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1278656
RM 196: If We Don’t Shape Al, Al Will Shape Us – Dr. James Maisiri on Responsible Technology Adoption
If We Don’t Shape Al, Al Will Shape Us – Dr. James Maisiri on Responsible Technology Adoption
Today, we’re going to explore a topic that seems to be touching nearly every industry, every workplace, and increasingly every part of our daily lives: artificial intelligence.
But this conversation is not just about what AI can do. It’s about what AI assumes, what it values, what it misses, and what happens when powerful technologies are deployed into environments they were not designed to understand.
My guest today is Dr. James Maisiri, an AI researcher and writer whose work focuses on responsible AI, digital transformation, education, labor markets, and the societal impact of emerging technologies.
His work has been featured through organizations and publications including UNESCO, Mail & Guardian, and others, and his message is both simple and profound: AI is not neutral.
In one of his 3 TEDx talks, Dr. Maisiri said, ‘If Africa does not shape AI, then AI will shape Africa.
While his work often focuses on African communities and institutions, the lesson is much broader.
Every industry, including electronics manufacturing, needs to think carefully about how we adopt AI, what assumptions are built into these systems, and how we validate their use before trusting their output.
In electronics reliability, we often say that context matters. Materials, environments, residues, humidity, temperature, field conditions, and use cases all influence performance.
Today, we’ll ask whether the same is true for AI.
I’m not really sure how much of this conversation will tie in directly to reliability, but it’s a fascinating subject nonetheless. Let’s see where it takes us.
The hidden danger of AI in Africa | James Maisiri | TEDxUniversity of Johannesburg
How AI and Robotics Reconnects Us to Humanity
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-james-maisiri-7b8069281/
QDD 197: What Are You Really Trying to Learn? Chad Schneider on Prototyping with Purpose (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
What Are You Really Trying to Learn? Chad Schneider on Prototyping with Purpose (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Before you build anything, before you open CAD, before you request a quote, before you sketch on a whiteboard: can you name the specific question you’re trying to answer?
Dianna talks with Chad Schneider who runs a successful engineering shop where a cardboard box became a prototype and where killing their own project was considered a win.
His team doesn’t think of prototyping as a phase. They think of it as a discipline, one that starts with knowing what you don’t know.
This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts”. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team within engineering projects.
About Chad
Chad Schneider is the CEO and founder of Root3 Labs, an engineering and device development company in Maryland. He’s a professional engineer with a background in mechanical engineering, haptics and medical robots. With over twenty-five years of experience across medical device and aerospace and defense, Chad and his team specialize in applied research, rapid prototyping, and design for manufacture. They help clients turn ideas into prototypes and prototypes into finished products. He’s named on sixteen patents and is a Goldman Sachs ten thousand Small Businesses alumnus.
What Chad and Dianna Talk About
They talk about why prototyping isn’t about building miniature versions of your final product. It’s about answering questions before they get expensive. We cover how Root3 Labs uses low-fidelity prototypes like cardboard mockups to test assumptions early, why Chad starts every project by separating needs from wants, how his team navigates the tension between what stakeholders ask for and what users actually need, and why killing a project can be the best outcome prototyping delivers.
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RG012: Huge Announcements! – Welcome Back
Huge Announcements! – Welcome Back
Happy New Year #reliabilitygang, i hope everyone had an incredible Christmas and New Year. We are back with the first Podcast of 2022 with some HUGE announcements. Within this podcast we explain some changes with Maintain and some incredible partnerships we are forming together.
We hope you enjoy this episode and we are grateful to have you guys a part of the #reiabilitygang.
CR215: Multi site CMMS and 10 Keys of Success with Gregory Perry of eMaint on Friends of Nano
Multi site CMMS and 10 Keys of Success with Gregory Perry of eMaint on Friends of Nano
Loaded episode! We’re joined by Gregory Perry of eMaint on Friends of Nano Presented by CMMSradio at SMRP 2025!
We talk SMRP and new blood in the industry, Multi-site CMMS a lot on strategy, plus the proven 10 keys for deployment success approach. Tune in and learn something! Chime in with comments and repost to your network! Thanks for following and supporting @cmmsradio
R40.011: Enhancing Reliability in Dairy Manufacturing with Kim Stalder from Schreiber Foods
Enhancing Reliability in Dairy Manufacturing with Kim Stalder from Schreiber Foods
In this episode of Reliability 4.0, we speak with Kim Stalder, Asset Reliability Team Leader at Schreiber Foods, the largest privately-owned dairy company in the world!
