Mid career advancement suggestions
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Carl and Fred discussing part two of their podcast on advancing your reliability engineering career.
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SOR 181 Mid career advancement suggestions
37 – The Benefits of Processes with Scott Kelley
The Benefits of Processes with Scott Kelley
In this episode of the rooted in reliability podcast, Scott Kelley talks about the benefits of the processes. A process is a visual representation of work depicted in flow diagrams that demonstrate the path you have chosen along with alternative paths to accomplish your goals, also including the decision making.
A process gives you the insight into the most efficient methods of doing your work and then document them for future use. These processes are directly tied to policies and procedures of an organization. You can also use CMMS for gathering information and then implement these methods accordingly in a better way as you will know exactly what kind of system you need depending upon your requirements.There are following things that you need to know while building a process map; who does the work? Who authorizes the work? Who hands-off the work and who they hand out to? Who verifies the work? Who approves the changes? This part continues until all the stakeholders such as suppliers, owners, customers, community, employees, and regulators are involved.
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SOR 180 Getting your reliability engineering career off to a good start
Getting your reliability engineering career off to a good start
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Carl and Fred discussing their personal experiences and tips about advancing reliability engineering careers.
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SOR 179 Understanding Customer Reliability Needs
Understanding Customer Reliability Needs
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John and Fred discussing the critical need to understand what your customer needs, not what they tell you they need concerning reliability.
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36 – What a Plant Consists of with Scott Kelley
What a Plant Consists of with Scott Kelley
In today’s episode, the guest Scott Kelley tells the audience about the importance of a plant in the asset management model. The plant cell is not just limited to the physical assets of the organization but it also includes the methods, risk evaluation, and mitigation strategies which you need to take care of to keep your plant performing at its best. The physical assets, facilities, and the equipment that you are using play a critical role when you need your plant to be working successfully. To accomplish this, you will need an asset management plan which should answer the following questions; what to maintain? How to maintain? When to maintain? Why maintain? Who will maintain? How and where to document the information? What is the cost involved? What are the consequences of non-maintenance? Now there are some facets that need to be kept in mind while planning for the asset management especially your plant.
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SOR 178 Providing Solutions as a Reliability Engineer
Providing Solutions as a Reliability Engineer
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John and Fred discussing the problem of only bringing failures to a team. We often are the bearers of bad news.
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SOR 177 How do I Determine the Value of HALT?
How do I Determine the Value of HALT?
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to show management and other skeptics of highly accelerated limit testing how valuable it can be in improving reliability.
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Reliability Apportionment and How to Do It
The Importance of Reliability Apportionment and How to Do It Today
Your team may understand the system reliability goal, yet they should know the goal for the element they are addressing. Let’s discuss why you must do reliability apportionment. Plus, let’s explore how it benefits your team.
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35 – Importance of People in an Asset Management Model with Scott Kelley
Importance of People in an Asset Management Model with Scott Kelley
In this episode, the guest Scott Kelley explains the role of the people component in the asset management model. Asset management is the most effective way of making the best use of investment and improve the production level of any organization. There are total six components in the model; people, plant, processes, policies and procedures, performance, and proactive maintenance. The people factor is of top priority among all of these factors. Why is the people component most important? Well, considering even if you have excelled in every other cell, you are going to need people to manage all of these and above all well trained and skillful people to make this work. Now, this cell in the model contains things such as organizational development, organizational structure, continuous improvement, change management, and operational excellence.
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SOR 176 Determine Which Failures Are Relevant
Determine Which Failures Are Relevant
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to determine when HALT failures are relevant or not relevant to what actually may fail in the field.
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SOR 175 The Difference Between Maintenance and Asset Management
The Difference Between Maintenance and Asset Management
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James and Fred discussing the connections and differences between these two terms.
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34 – The Role of Stakeholder Analysis & Management with Tara Holwegner
Stakeholder Analysis and Management with Tara Holwegner
In today’s episode, the guest Tara Holwegner explains the role of stakeholders and the management in an organization. It is very common that many new projects and big initiatives take place in the organizations but most of these don’t succeed or generate results as expected even if they have the potential. The problem in these cases is the little transfer of information, lack of communication, and incoherent business objectives. [Read more…]
SOR 174 When to Employ a P-Diagram
When to Employ a P-Diagram
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Carl and Fred discussing when a Parameter Diagram is useful in reliability programs.
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SOR 173 When to Focus on Robust Design
When to Focus on Robust Design
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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of robust design, what it is, and how it relates to reliability programs.
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33 – Utilizing Multiple Layers of Protection with Fred Schenkelberg
Utilizing Multiple Layers of Protection with Fred Schenkelberg
In today’s episode, the agenda of discussion is utilizing multiple layers of protection for the products or assets of an organization. The plant itself and some other resources are very critical to the value of production of bigger companies. They can’t afford to have a failure because of the tight deadlines and allocation of specific budgets. That’s why it is always a good practice to have backups and their backups as well.
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