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Chris and Fred discuss how you can influence behavior. Good behavior. Like taking reliability seriously. It is not about what you say when you are forced to say it. It is about what you like saying and what you make your people do. So there are some things you can do to influence people in a good way. But it takes some effort on your behalf. Keen to learn more? Listen here!
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Back with us is Paul Daoust, the founder of Scio Asset Management. He’s also a member of the PEMAC board of directors. Paul’s helped us tackle different topics on several previous shows. That’s due to his extensive experience in the oil, gas, and energy sectors. He’s also gotten life cycle and investment planning experience. That’s while assembling capital and operating projects on various operations.
His knowledge will help us get more insight into:
… and so much more!
Warranty returns are a great place to start for setting targets for new products. But how do you translate that to specific numbers to design to? If you know the strength of a product and the return rate, you can develop stress profiles. If you have multiple similar products, your estimates can be even better. From the profiles, targets can be developed for future products to meet and use them to calculate the expected return rates. You can even use these profiles to estimate the impact of design changes to warranty returns. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode, I welcome Susan Hobson. We discuss new-school leadership, mindset & impact.
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Chris and Fred discuss the organizations that culturally avoid engineering. Those organizations that for some reason, never ask for the data, the math, the tests, the thinking or anything else that might actually help you understand why your thing fails.
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Chris and Fred discuss when you should run qualification tests again. A qualification test can be anything – essentially all your product, system or service has to do is meet or exceed something to get a tick in the box. So if you make a minor change to your system – do you need to run all your qualification tests again? Can you get away with not doing any? Listen to this podcast to learn more!
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In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to welcome Lucas Marino on the show!
Everything will eventually fail. I like to say that keeps us in business as reliability engineers. The trick is knowing what will fail and when. There are many potential causes for a product or system to fail. Design flaws, supplied component latent defects, assembly damage, and unexpected applied stresses exist.
The key to take away from this concept is we can learn when studying failures. We can work to prevent or delay specific types of failures. By learning about failures, we learn how to create reliable products. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode, I talk about leadership & why we struggle in industry. To learn more about The Leadership Launchpad Project, go to http://robsreliability.com/leadership
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Episode 49 – A Conversation with SMTA’s Global Executive Director Tanya Martin and Greg Vance, Member of SMTA Global Board of Directors about SMTAI 2020’s new virtual format.
Numerous exhibitors are taking part in this new format. More than 100 technical presentations and papers will be available on-demand. Additionally, nine 3.5 hour professional development courses will be presented live!
Register to attend the virtual exhibition and technical conference here:
https://smta.org/mpage/smtai
Today, we’re welcoming Rob Kalwarowsky from Rob’s Reliability project. He’s currently an asset manager at Enbridge, handling their mechanical assets. Rob was previously a reliability consultant for five years, as well as a reliability engineer at Teck Resources. He’s been on a few of our previous podcasts.
But today, he’s helping us look into aspects of spare parts optimization such as:
… and so much more!
Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.
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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Michelle Henley and Jeff Shiver. We discuss culture change and motivation.
You can connect with our guests here:
Michelle Henley – https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleledethenley/
Jeff Shiver – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffshiver/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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I’m excited to have Bill Leahy with us for a deep dive into whether organizations should build an RE internally, or they should hire externally to fill those roles. Bill has worked at Eruditio for the past three years and is currently a senior instructor there.
Today, we’re tackling important points such as:
… and so much more!
