QDD 009 About Using Slide Decks for Technical Design Reviews

About Using Slide Decks for Technical Design Reviews

A danger of using slide decks for technical design reviews is loss of important technical information. In order to summarize something in a slide or slide deck, the presenter thins-out information without its raw data and divorces it from the plots, graphs, and other technical analyses.

Slide decks are useful to the presenter to pull together a meeting. Slide decks are terrible for the reviewers who need to review technical information and make decisions from it.

In this episode, I review some alternatives:

eliminating slide decks all together; use the technical report with executive summary and a 10 minute study hall at the top of the meeting
very sparse slide deck content, instead referencing the completed technical report
a report formatted with all the details like Nancy Duarte’s Slidedocs®, a hybrid between a technical document and a slide

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MD 165 Journey to Reliability: The Roadmap for Success with Dan Moss

Over the past decade, facility equipment reliability has been elevated from an often vague ideal to a mission-critical goal with benefits that outweigh both cost and complexity. As a result, well-run organizations now consider reliability to be an important element of their strategic and tactical plans and initiatives. This new reality impacts nearly every function, from procurement to maintenance, repair, and operations inventory management.

Over the same period, savvy plant management has also embraced the philosophy that maximum reliability requires more than well-functioning equipment. What other correlated activities must organizations also engage in?

In this week’s episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Blair Fraser welcomes Dan Moss, VP Operations at Performance Consulting Associates otherwise known as PCA to talk about the Journey to Reliability: The Roadmap for Success.

You can connect with PCA here:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pcaconsulting/

https://pcaconsulting.com/

Email Dan here: moss@pcaconsulting.com

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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265 – Moving from Paper to a CMMS with Jeff O’Brien

Moving from Paper to a CMMS with Jeff O’Brien

Welcome Jeff O’brien who is the cofounder of Zoidii CMMS

Jeff has worked with CMMS in manufacturing and consultancy for years and has currently launched their own application.

In this episode we covered:

What prompted you to start your own CMMS?
Why would organizations transition from a paper-based system to CMMS?
How do organizations decide to make the transition?

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TMC S3:E6 Community Question Round-Up with Ramesh and Ryan

Community Question Round-Up with Ramesh and Ryan

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we’ll be reviewing questions submitted by members in our Maintenance Community Slack group and hearing insight from one of our Maintenance Experts in Residence, the Reliability Sherpa himself — Ramesh Gulati. Listen today!
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SOR 661 Management vs Leadership

661 Management vs Leadership

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Carl and Fred discussing what it means to be a leader, and how the principles of leadership go beyond the traditional roles of management.
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SOR 660 Effort versus Outcomes

Effort versus Outcomes

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to focus on ‘effort’ instead of ‘outcomes.’ We often think we focus on outcomes only … but how many people ‘get by’ simply by being ‘seen’ around the office, looking busy when there, and otherwise being friendly to everyone? They always volunteer to be part of a team, do some of the ‘less glamorous’ tasks, and otherwise be ‘part of something.’ But is this person actually valuable? (… harsh as the question sounds).
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TLC 004 Leadership Connection Interview with Shon Isenhour

Leadership Connection Interview with Shon Isenhour

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Shon Isenhour in Episode 4 of this series. Shon specializes in Adult Learning, Leadership, Asset Management and Reliability Engineering and has lead improvement initiatives for industries such as pharmaceuticals, metals, petrochemical, automotive, paper, and power generation, among others and is currently a Partner at Eruditio, LLC.

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TMC S3:E5 Cathy Ma

Cathy Ma

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we are excited to have Cathy Ma, Director of User Acquisition at Thomas, on the show! Cathy shares with us how Thomas mobilized over 6,000 manufacturers in North America to speed up PPE distribution and production. She also shares her thoughts on digital transformation and diversity in the industry. Listen today!
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RM 069: Part 2 of an Interview with Me (Mike Konrad) on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney and Melissa Hough

Part 2 of an Interview with Me (Mike Konrad) on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney and Melissa Hough

Episode 69:

I was privileged to be a guest on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney (Worthington Assembly) and Melissa Hough (CircuitHub). This is the second of a two-part interview.

In this episode we are joined by Mike Konrad to chat about board cleaning. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents. Their board cleaning equipment assists manufacturers with increasing product reliability while saving both water and energy, reducing the industry’s environmental impact.

In addition to being the President of Aqueous Technologies, he is also a fellow podcaster and runs the Reliability Matters Podcast, which discusses reliability of circuit assemblies, reliability “best practices” and success stories.

In the first part of this conversation we delve into the history of board cleaning, the electronics the industry’s transition to primarily using no-clean flux, and why more and more companies are reintroducing board cleaning back into their assembly process.

This episode gets us into the nitty gritty details of how to implement a proper circuit board cleaning process.

Chris Denney may be reached here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com

Melissa Hough may be reached here:
melissa@circuithub.com

Mike Konrad may be reached here:
konrad@aqueoustech.com

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QDD 008 Remaking Risk-Based Decisions: Allowing Ourselves to Change our Minds.

Remaking Risk-Based Decisions: Allowing Ourselves to Change our Minds.

Recent news highlights an accident involving a product with tragic results. This podcast explores this as cautionary tale and example outside of our own design house. The goal is to shift our perspectives to let us gain a better understanding of risk-based decisions.

We also talk about allowing ourselves room to change our minds about risk acceptability when we learn new information, both during the design process and from the field.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

Only some discussions about reliability go well. Some conversations make it obvious reliability is an afterthought or considered a barrier to creating and shipping products. Other conversations seem to support reliability work, yet really are little more than lip service. Then, there are meaningful conversations that improve the reliability culture within the organization. [Read more…]

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MD 164 Industrial Thought Leadership with Leah Friberg

In this weeks episode we welcome Leah Friberg and discuss a wide range of topics. Leah has her fingers on the pulse of our industry and we cover some great topics. We discuss how to get the most out of our coaches/consultants, how to navigate a parts shortage, how to keep the workforce engaged, and so much more.

You can connect with Leah here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahmfriberg/

https://www.accelix.com/

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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264 – Crucial Decision with Ryan Sitton

Crucial Decision with Ryan Sitton

Welcome Ryan Sitton to the podcast. Ryan is the founder and CEO of Pinnacle Engineering and has spent a lot of time around reliability and production engineering. Notably, he is the author of “Crucial Decisions”; a book that we will discuss in the episode and how it applies to maintenance and reliability.

More about Ryan:

He has a mechanical engineering background and has worked at a gas company called Oxy and also worked as an Energy Regulator for the State of Texas. He has a PhD in Data Science and is the founder of Pinnacle Engineering.

Data Science has become an inevitable necessity in that; data plays a crucial role in what we tend to accomplish in our daily activities.

In this episode we covered:

What is a crucial decision? What makes it different from other ordinary decisions in a facility?
What types of crucial decisions brought about the issues we saw in Texas Big Freeze?
How does risk assessment fit into decision making? Do we underestimate or overestimate risk?

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SOR 659 3 Perspectives for Fault Tree Analysis

3 Perspectives for Fault Tree Analysis

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Chris and Fred discussing the 3 perspectives of Fault Tree Analysis or FTA. What … there are 3 perspectives? … what are perspectives when it comes to FTA?
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SOR 658 Equipment Life Expectations

Equipment Life Expectations

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James and Fred discussing the many variables that impact equipment expected lifetimes.
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