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314 – Clean Energy with Howard Penrose

314 – Clean Energy with Howard Penrose

Clean Energy with Howard Penrose

Welcome back Howard to the Podcast. Howard is the founder of Motordoc and is heavily involved with IEEE and SMRP. Though, briefly, tell us about yourself.

My entire career has been about electric machines and systems from my time in the Navy. I later had short stints both in repair business and teaching at the University of Illinois. I also ran the energy resources at the University. I later went into the test equipment industry and afterwards started a repair shop named Motordoc. Currently involved in a lot of ESG projects and Utility works in solar energy and wind turbines. Also I am the vice chair of American Clean Power.

In this episode we covered:

  • Do the utilities know what they need to ramp up for?
  • What are the industrial facilities doing especially in degasifying their energy through electrification?
  • How are we to take advantage of this clean power if the infrastructure cannot support it?

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313 – Decarbonization and the Impact on Maintenance with Steven Dobie

313 – Decarbonization and the Impact on Maintenance with Steven Dobie

Decarbonization and the Impact on Maintenance with Steven Dobie

Welcome Steven to the podcast. Steven is a co-host of another podcast called Maintenance Disrupted. However briefly, tell us more about yourself.

I am a maintenance and reliability engineer in the mining industry who has been in tech for a couple of years. Presently working with a centralised maintenance group focused on keeping equipment and trucks running longer.

In this episode we covered:

  • Are you being impacted a lot by sustainability i.e decarbonization, electrification?
  • How does this impact people from a maintenance person’s perspective?
  • What are the other ways to produce power?

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312 – Cost vs Benefit of Inspection with Dane Boers

312 – Cost vs Benefit of Inspection with Dane Boers

Cost vs Benefit of Inspection with Dane Boers

Welcome Dane back to the podcast. We last talked about asset modelling and factors that influence those assets. Today we will talk about optimising strategies; how we determine cost vs benefit of strategies. But first, give a brief introduction of yourself and Modla.

Modla is an asset knowledge and analytic platform. The vision is to capture subject matter expertise and knowledge around an asset and business processes. It then combines that with data for continuous improvement. We have worked in the utility industry; particularly water and electricity.

In this episode we covered:

  • How do we determine the probability of finding a defect to establish inspection frequency?
  • Are organisations looking to optimise inspections to ensure the benefits are worth the costs?
  • Can you borrow a task in an FMEA from another organisation?

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311 – Defect Elimination with Doug Plucknette

311 – Defect Elimination with Doug Plucknette

Defect Elimination with Doug Plucknette

Welcome Doug back to the podcast. Doug is the Author, President and Owner of Reliability Solutions Inc. Though briefly, give an introduction of yourself.

I started my reliability consultancy career back in 1999 after serving in several capacities at different organisations. Although currently semi-retired, I still respond to past clients who need help in streamlining their processes.

In this episode we covered:

  • How do we start moving defect elimination from smaller  to a little more advanced problems?
  • How long does it take to move from simpler problems such as leaks to dealing with more advanced asset problems?
  • How do you prioritise the problems to be worked on?

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309 – Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Rotating Equipment with Simon Jagers

309 – Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Rotating Equipment with Simon Jagers

Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Rotating Equipment with Simon Jagers

It is my pleasure to welcome back Simon Jagers, one of the founders of Samotics, an industrial analytics company that helps clients improve reliability and sustainability, particularly of their rotating equipment.

In this episode we covered:

  • Why is energy efficiency so important for organizations?
  • What can we do to address these problems with energy efficiency?
  • What do we do about all these energy wasting assets?

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307 – The Evil Ways of MTBF with Fred Schenkelberg

307 – The Evil Ways of MTBF with Fred Schenkelberg

The Evil Ways of MTBF with Fred Schenkelberg

It’s my pleasure to welcome Fred Schenkelberg back to the podcast. He is a reliability engineer and management consultant.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is MTBF?
  • Why would people want to calculate what that average time between failure is or where did this come about?
  • What do you think about using MTBF to monitor a complex systems reliability, and using that to pro proactively look at reviewing the maintenance program to it?

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306 – RCM Implementation with Nancy Regan

306 – RCM Implementation with Nancy Regan

RCM Implementation with Nancy Regan

It is my pleasure to welcome back Nancy Regan to the podcast, the founder of RCMtrainingonline.com.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is an RCM implementation?
  • What challenges do you see within organizations as they go to implement the findings from their analysis?
  • What do you believe is the most important outcome from an RCM implementation at the end of it all?

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CT E07 Part 2: A Successful Implementation of the Active Learning Model with Keith Fong

CT E07 Part 2: A Successful Implementation of the Active Learning Model with Keith Fong

CT E07 Part 2: A Successful Implementation of the Active Learning Model with Keith Fong

In Part 2 of Episode 7, my recurring guest, the phenomenal Keith Fong and I pick up our chat where we left off in Part 1 and go into detail on how to successfully apply the active learning model in your day-to-day. We also go over an example of a successful active learning program implementation.

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305 – Balancing Short and Long Term in Change with Shon Isenhour

305 – Balancing Short and Long Term in Change with Shon Isenhour

Balancing Short and Long Term in Change with Shon Isenhour

It’s my pleasure at welcome back, Shon Isenhour to the podcast, the owner of R and D show.

In this episode we covered:

  • How do clients get time to move and to start doing some of these proactive things?
  • How do you manage skill traits? How do we schedule them appropriately?
  • What are some short-term things we can do to create a little bit of breathing room?

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QDD 048 Using SIPOC to Get Started

QDD 048 Using SIPOC to Get Started

Using SIPOC to Get Started

SIPOC diagrams can be used at the beginning of improvement projects, to help teams gauge the scope of a change or to help the team get on the same page. These diagrams can also help a team understand a complex system with many people involved or lots of information exchanges.

SIPOC is short for Suppliers-Inputs-Process-Outputs-Customers.

In creating one with our team, we usually don’t fill it out left to right. We talk about how to build one in this episode.

We also step through an example. Look below for the results.

 

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CT E07 Part 1: How To Cultivate Skills That Stick Through Active Learning with Keith Fong

CT E07 Part 1: How To Cultivate Skills That Stick Through Active Learning with Keith Fong

CT E07 Part 1: How To Cultivate Skills That Stick Through Active Learning with Keith Fong

In Part I of Episode 7, my recurring guest, the phenomenal Keith Fong and I take you to a chat that will be worth your time!

Learning is an essential activity for any individual or organization; it is through learning that you develop skills you don’t currently possess or develop a higher level of competency in a given skill. Yet, one wonders why conventional training methods organizations typically utilize (classroom-type, lecture-type or through consultants) don’t deliver on their promise of making the participants competent in the subject matter.

Episode summary:

Training in organizations Why is the lecture-type (a.k.a. industrial) approach to education and training not effective and is really “the easy way out”?  What is the active learning model? Leadership’s reponsibility; everyone is a leader. “If the student doesn’t learn, it is the teacher’s fault” An example of a successful active learning program implementation (featured in Part 2 of the episode)

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QDD 047 Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese?

QDD 047 Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese?

Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese?

There’s a model that can help us visualize and consider the different barriers to harm: The Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation.

Learn what makes up this model and how ideas are represented. There are also different ways that the model is being used today.

How can we design for controls, policies, or actions that are part of the use of our product but outside of our control? We step through an example of a situation where we’re thinking about our product design in this way.

 

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