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Kirk and Fred discussing decisions made regarding the costs, features and reliability when make a purchase of home appliances and other consumer products.
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Failure data is very important for leaders to make effective and efficient decisions. That’s why they are always looking for industry best practices and new implementation techniques to understand failure codes and failure modes in a better way. The organizations always focus on understanding failure codes so that they can design their CMMS. They always configure their CMMS to better analyze the failure data. They have a process in place that allows them to run failure data against different fields based on the failure codes. Failure data must be synchronized to hold RCM analysis results. CMMS can be built in way that it perfectly serves the purpose.
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I’ve known Phil Zarrow and Jim Hall for many years. Phil, Jim, and what they describe as their brothers, operate ITM Consulting, a consulting and advisory firm for the electronic assembly located in Springfield, TN. Phil and Jim also produce a question and answer program, answering technical assembly-related questions in an equally valuable and humorous manner. As you will hear, Phil and Jim, while taking their customer’s problems seriously, don’t take themselves too seriously, which is one of the things I love about them.
This week, I welcome on the principal root cause analysis (RCA) investigator for Reliability Center, Holcombe Baird. We take a deeper look at the RCA process and Holcombe gives us his insights on what makes a good investigator and how we can avoid some common mistakes.
I’m looking for a new opportunity in maintenance & reliability so if you hear of any open positions that I might be suited for please let me know on LinkedIn or send me an email at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
I mentioned this last week but the offer still stands. I have some more time so if you have any reliability questions, frustrations or anything I can help with, I am happy to jump on a phone call with you and give you my advice. A bonus is, if I don’t have a good answer for you, I will get in contact with the right person to get you the help you need. I want to be clear and say I’m not charging for this and I won’t try to sell you anything, I’m just doing this to bring more value to you.
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Kirk and Fred discussing good, better and best ways to introduce and motivate a company to use weakness discovery test methodology.
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Carl and Fred discuss the approach to building quality and reliability programs. Is it better to implement a disciplined approach or a more collaborative approach?
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Tonight we dive into the topic of deciding what skill sets are necessary to be an effective maintenance planner.
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Lubrication is an important part of asset management and oil analysis plays a major role in keeping the lubrication system of your machines well. There are a number of factors that need to be taken into account while checking the lubricant for impurities and high viscosity etc. That’s why it is important to check the oiling process of the gearboxes and other machine parts that would fail if the condition of the lubricant is not up to the standards. There are a lot of precautions and different tests to make sure that the machines run smoothly.
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Collins Aerospace’s Doug Pauls chaired the IPC committee to implement a new cleanliness testing specification. IPC J-STD001-G Amendment 1 which is now active. Doug explains the new requirements of this standard and provides suggestions on how to comply.
This week, I welcome Jesus Sifonte to the show. Jesus wrote Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered with James Reyes-Picknell. He is also the founder of PdM Tech and Conscious Reliability. We discuss what makes a great RCM facilitator, what makes RCM-R different from classic RCM and common mistakes people make when doing an RCM.
If you enjoy the show, please tell your colleagues in reliability about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn. I’m putting out some bonus content only for that page so if you follow my personal LinkedIn, you might miss out on some great stuff.
If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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Carl and Fred discussing how dependent we all have become on a multitude of devices to do our daily work, and the ramifications on our daily lives.
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Chris and Fred discuss about how to learn to be a reliability engineer. And ‘learn’ means different things. It could be experiential learning. It could be academic learning. It could be instructional or ‘mentorship’ learning. And you tend to be a particular type of a reliability engineer based on how you learn about reliability. But there are pros and cons for each approach. And sometimes, you just ‘stumble’ into a learning process when a company sponsors you to become their expert. There are so many different ways to learn about reliability. This podcast talks about some of the more common ways, and how each tailors to a certain learning path.
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Bringing value to you through training and education, taking an in depth look at all things Reliability.
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Distance learning is becoming more trendy in the industry and is preferred by a lot of students especially the ones doing their Masters. The biggest reason that the students choose distance learning over traditional learning is because of the flexibility of the process. Due to this supreme advantage, anyone can get into an online course. It is particularly very advantageous for people who have jobs or need to take care of their families. It is really good for the parents who have limited time and need flexible study hours which distance learning provides. The institutions are becoming more inclined towards it these days.
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