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RM 062: A Conversation with Cogiscan’s Co-Founder François Monette

RM 062: A Conversation with Cogiscan’s Co-Founder François Monette

A Conversation with Cogiscan’s Co-Founder François Monette

Welcome to the Reliability Matters Podcast. This is episode number 62. By now, most of us have heard of Industry 4.0, or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), or Smart Factory, or Factory of the Future. The key all of these acronyms is Connectivity, Data Management, Material and Process Control, Traceability, and Analytics. It’s not as simple as collecting data. The data much be understood, useful, and contextual. 

My guest today is François Monette, is the co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Cogiscan, a company specializing in Track Trace Control products for the electronics industry.

François co-founded Cogiscan in 1999 with two other partners in Canada. François earned his mechanical engineering degree from McGill University in Montreal. François started his career at IBM, and worked at contract manufacturers, C-Mac and Solectron, before joining Universal Instruments.

François Monette may be contacted here:
fmonette@cogiscan.com

 

 

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250 – Decoding Mechanical Failures with Shane Turcott

250 – Decoding Mechanical Failures with Shane Turcott

Decoding Mechanical Failures with Shane Turcott

We’re glad to have Shane Turcott to helps us understand more about decoding mechanical failures. He’s a principal metallurgist from Steel Image and is heavily involved in a lot of professional societies. Shane’s previously worked at a steel mill, a turbine company, and a failure analysis lab specializing in failure analysis. Steel Image was established in 2009 and deals with failure analysis, with a specialty in supporting reliability efforts in the refining industry, mining, energy, and heavy industries like automotive and manufacturing.

Today, we’re tackling important points such as:

  • What is Fractography
  • How to study failed components
  • Difference between a Ductile and Brittle fracture
  • How to become successful with Decoding Mechanical Failures

… and so much more!

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MD 144 Execution & Tooling with Matt Joinson

MD 144 Execution & Tooling with Matt Joinson

MD 144 Execution & Tooling with Matt Joinson

Are the different groups within your maintenance department communicating? Is your tool crib being run well?

In this week’s episode of Over the Line, a Maintenance Disrupted Podcast series, we welcome Matt Joinson of Jaffray Millwright to the show to discuss tooling and maintenance execution.

Connecting with our Guest Here:

Matthew Joinson Jaffraymillwright@gmail.com

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted.  If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com

Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

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

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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RM Special Edition: A Conversation with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly about IPC APEX Expo 2021

RM Special Edition: A Conversation with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly about IPC APEX Expo 2021

A Conversation with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly about IPC APEX Expo 2021

Special Edition: A Conversation with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly about IPC APEX Expo 2021. This year’s APEX Expo is a virtual event. Matt and I discuss IPC’s new technical conference focus and review a small sample of the upcoming technical presentations and professional development courses.

Register for IPC APEX Expo here:
https://www.ipcapexexpo.org

IPC Factory of the Future:
https://apexfuturefactory.ipc.org/

Matt may be reached at:
mattkelly@ipc.org

 

 

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249 – Understanding the Failure Curves with Doug Plucknette & Ron Moore

249 – Understanding the Failure Curves with Doug Plucknette & Ron Moore

Understanding the Failure Curves with Doug Plucknette & Ron Moore

Were excited to have Ron Moore and Doug Plucknette get into the topic of age and random failure patterns. Ron’s been involved with maintenance and reliability for a long time. Doug’s from RCM Blitz and is a big advocate for understanding failure modes, reliability centered maintenance, and its different aspects. He has experience ranging from wrenching to supervision and management, and also training and consulting.

In this episode, we covered:

  • The tools a Maintenance Engineer needs!
  • How to make change!
  • The steps you need to build a performance tool!
  • And much more!

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Acceleration Factors with Examples

Acceleration Factors with Examples

Acceleration Factors with Examples

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

Carefully considering the acceleration factor (AF) is essential when conducting an accelerated life test. Like warp drives shortening the distance, accelerated life tests (ALT) attempt to shorten time. Think of the warp factor and acceleration factor as being similar, well, sort of. [Read more…]

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MD 143 You CAN collect TOO MUCH time series data!!! with Jim Gavigan

MD 143 You CAN collect TOO MUCH time series data!!! with Jim Gavigan

MD 143 You CAN collect TOO MUCH time series data!!! with Jim Gavigan

This week’s guest I had stumbled upon in my endless scrolling through linked in. The title of this person’s article was ‘Rant – you can collect too much data. As someone in AI and IIoT is could have not disagreed more with this person, until I watched his video, and now, I changed my mind!

This week I welcome the Timeseries Data Storyteller, Jim Gavigan to the show to discuss all things data, how to store it, what to do with it, and what not to do with it.

Connecting with our Guest Here:

Jim Gavigan –  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimgavigan/

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted.  If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com

Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

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

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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RM 061: A Conversation with Flex Circuit and Additive Electronics Expert Tara Dunn

RM 061: A Conversation with Flex Circuit and Additive Electronics Expert Tara Dunn

A Conversation with Flex Circuit and Additive Electronics Expert Tara Dunn

Episode 61: A Conversation with Flex Circuit and Additive Expert Tara Dunn
Tara Dunn and I discuss the world of flex and rigid-flex circuits including flex best practices when it comes to design and use of flex technology. We also discuss the new world of additive electronics.

Tara Dunn is a seasoned professional with more than 20 years in the electronics industry exclusively focused on the PCB sector. Her experience spans roles from manufacturing to sales and marketing.

Tara was the founder of Omni PCB, a technical manufacturers representative for the printed circuit board industry which specializes in quick-turn projects | PCB Design, High Density Interconnects, RF/Microwave PCBs

Tara is also the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Averatek which develops and licenses advanced manufacturing processes – and the key chemistries that enable them – for a variety of electronic products, including:
• very high density printed circuit boards
• semiconductor packaging
• RF and millimeter wave passive components

Tara writes a regular column for www.pcb007.com and is a regular contributor with Altium. Tara also co-publishes pcbAdvisor.com

And, perhaps most interesting, she was one of the founders of geek-a-poluza. We’ll get into that and so much more.

Tara Dunn many be contacted here:
Tara@averatek.com
www.averatek.com

 

 

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248 – Leading FMEAs with Bill Leahy

248 – Leading FMEAs with Bill Leahy

Leading FMEAs with Bill Leahy

We’re honored to have Bill Leahy back to talk about Failure Mode Effect Analysis. He’s a principal instructor with Eruditio, having a background in manufacturing and the military. He’s been involved with maintenance and reliability for several years.

Today, we’re tackling important points such as:

  • What is an FMEA
  • Why do the FMEAs
  • Who should lead FMEAs
  • How to perform an FMEA

… and so much more!

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