An Interview with George Hawkins
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we are so excited to welcome George Hawkins, Founder of Moonshot LLC and former head of DC Water, to the show!
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we are so excited to welcome George Hawkins, Founder of Moonshot LLC and former head of DC Water, to the show!
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Chris discusses ‘rules’ – rules we need to apply and rules we must bend. Rules can range from traditional practices and procedures through to the laws of nature. But we as reliability engineers need to know which of these rules we must adhere to, and which are our duty to try and bend. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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Carl discusses how good people skills can supplement your reliability engineering skills, and why they are both important.
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Adam discusses the importance of defining use cases thoroughly and early
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Kirk discusses the continued reliance on the misleading approach of using reliability prediction for reliability development.
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James discusses the struggle to implement a program when access to the equipment being limited.
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Fred discusses the need to fully understand failure mechanisms in order to make meaningful reliability improvements.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Hal Frohreich on to the show. We discuss Toyota Kata, PDCA and continuous improvement.
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Links discussed in the show:
https://www.allaboutlean.com/karakuri-introduction/
https://www.allaboutlean.com/karakuri-examples/
http://karakuri.item24.de/anwendungen.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/Homepage.html
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
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Lubrication is one of the most important aspects in asset management and having a sophisticated tool for this purpose makes a real difference to facilitate an organization’s lubrication program. This is where oil mist lubrication helps to achieve your lubrication goals. Its mechanism is based on creating a slightly pressured area that prevents moisture and other contaminants to enter into the bearing itself which also preserves the integrity of any vulnerable components as well as your lubricant. That’s how oil mist lubrication differs greatly from the traditional lubrication as it effectively keeps your lubricant pure from contaminants in the air outside.
The points addressed in this podcast highlight:
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Chris discusses ‘reliability security blankets.’ You know what security blankets are – the things that parents offer young children to make them feel safe and comfortable. Not because these blankets actually offer warmth, comfort or safety – but rather because the children associate feelings of warmth and safety with that object because it is ‘always there’ when they are at home or go to be. A reliability security blanket does the same thing – it calms the leaders, managers, bosses, and directors of an organization. But – that is it! There is no reliability to be found. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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On this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we welcome Gary Rigdon, maintenance and reliability SME, on the show!
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Carl discusses the importance of understanding how things fail, during product development.
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Adam discusses how the Use Case 7 concept can rapidly improve product design
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Kirk discusses the many times his home appliances failing and doing his own failure analysis and the limitations.
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Tim interviews John about project risk management, which is the topic of John’s new book by the same title.