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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of getting the failed products, especially low cost systems, back from the field to do failure analysis on.
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Kirk and Fred discussing what Reliability Engineers do considering the past and current approaches to reliability development
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Fred interviews Ann Marie an author and consultant concerning her work in the field of software reliability.
Implementing Parts Kitting is challenging as doing so requires numerous systems, processes, and people to work together. This paper describes appropriate steps for successful implementation of Parts Kitting in a sustainable manner and outlines pitfalls to avoid.
At an average facility, maintenance staff wrench time is approximately 30% (Figure 1). That means that they only spent this amount of their time performing repairs and Preventative Maintenance or other value added work. The rest of the time is lost for a variety of reasons. Businesses work to address this lack in efficiency by implementing a maintenance planning & scheduling functions. When properly implemented, many realize the benefits in craft efficiency. However, improper implementation of these planning and scheduling functions leads to minimal or no improvement in work productivity. One of the main reasons for this lack of improvement is the time the craft spend traveling & looking for parts.
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James and Fred discussing the ongoing task to have the right parts available at the right time.
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Andre and Fred discussing the language of variation and why you need to speak this language as a reliability engineer.
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This episode of the weekly podcast is focused on the 2016 SMRP conference and is described in detail by one of the Board members of the SMRP itself, the education director Christopher Mears. Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals is a shared group where you get many opportunities to learn, experience, and improve your working skills for your own and your organization’s benefit. They have an annual event in October called the SMRP conference where professionals from around gather and get a know-how about the best practices that many good quality CMRPs use in different industries. It is shared event in which many companies exhibit in workshops which technologies they are using right now. What have they come across while dealing with the reliability improvements and what are they up to—not the specific details like confidential designs, documents, and charts. But kind of keynotes that are food for thought if you are keen to make yourself better in the race of reliability professionals. Apart from this yearly event, you can find the webinars of SMRP members on the official site along with the presentations of different professionals that are working in the leading organizations of the field. The exhibitors of this society are very successful at what they do and if you want to start your reliability engineering journey—doesn’t matter if you’re a student, earlier in the career, or an experienced professional—there’s plenty for you to do in the workshops along with a chance to see the best facilities of the city in which the conferences are held.
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Andre and Fred discussing the common reliability test which is more than just tossing a few units into an oven.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the increased expectations of reliability based on experience with past products
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Reliability testing is expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with errors. Is it worth the effort? Is it necessary? Let’s explore relegating testing to only a ‘when necessary’ status. Let’s explore what you and your team can do instead.
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In this episode of the rooted in reliability podcast, the guest Scott Kelly explains the sixth cell of the hexagon of Plant-Hexcellence Model. All the cells of this model are linked together so that every cell is critically important to get good results from your plant. But there are always prioritized standards for different people working in the organization and most of them consider the proactive maintenance above all as it’s the best way to save both time and money. Basically, it is a strategy through which you plan your asset management process from the very start till the end by looking at the design of the machines, construction, visual inspection, and so on.
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Fred interviews Alec Feinberg an author, scientist, engineer, and consultant.
Kirk and Fred discussing the value of reliability in consumer electronics in comparison to the rapid technological improvements.
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In this episode of the weekly podcast, the guest Scott Kelley explains the 5th cell of the Hexcellence Model. All of the previous cells of this hexagon are connected to each other and are equally important when it comes to getting the superior asset management outcomes. But when it comes to achieving optimum results for the company some sort of performance measures must be done and each of the factors involved in determining the performance level must be taken care of. Not only that you need to understand these factors deeply, you need to relate them to your baselines for budget and time as well. In this way, you will be able to meet the expectations and standards that ultimately lead to focused improvements in the long run. Now, these measures will change the behavior of your organization. So, you have to be careful while using any metrics for measurement to get those numbers that will determine the behavior of your people. A good performance metric is always balanced to avoid any counter-productive outcomes. You can create as many metrics as you want but unless those are aligned with your strategic goals, they won’t be of any help at all. That’s why all the metrics that you use should be fit for purpose—meaning that look at the overall picture and make the indicators in a comparative fashion if you want those to make sense.
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