Chris Jackson, Scholar and Consultant
Tim interviews Chris concerning the academic work concerning decision making being built into autonomous vehicles. [Read more…]
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E6S-181 Careers in Reliability — Fred Schenkelberg
Intro: Welcome to the E6S-Methods Lean Six Sigma Performance podcast with Jacob and Aaron, your weekly dose of tips and tricks to achieve excellent performance in your business and career. Join us as we explore deeper into the practical worlds of Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management and Design Thinking. In this episode number 181, we speak with reliability expert, Fred Schenkelberg, and get his take on the day in the life of a reliability engineer. [Read more…]
68 – Condition Monitoring with John Lambert
Condition Monitoring with John Lambert
Ever wonder why your assets aren’t producing the value they are supposed to even if you have trained staff and big budgets? Are you a fan of Predictive maintenance improvement of your organizational processes? Then, condition monitoring is where you should start. The meaning of this word is as simple as the word itself. You just need to check the state of your asset on a regular basis and as the state of your asset change, you would know what possible failures that change can lead to and then you can try predictive maintenance strategies to stop that failure from occurring in the first place.
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SOR 242 Failures are Good Yet Many Avoid Creating Failures
Failures are Good Yet Many Avoid Creating Failures
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Adam and Fred discussing the benefits of treating failures as nuggets of wonderful information.
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SOR 241 F-35 Reliability Issues Costing $1.2 Trillion
F-35 Reliability Issues Costing $1.2 Trillion
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent article Kirk and comments posted on LinkedIn regarding the estimated maintenance costs required for the F-35 Fighter Jet.
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67 – Women In Reliability and Asset Management (WiRAM) with Maura Abad
Women In Reliability and Asset Management (WiRAM) with Maura Abad
The presence of women in different industries is a growing fact that cannot be denied. They are now involved in fields—from management to engineering—that were considered solely to be men’s and they are doing these jobs incredibly and competently. There are a very few platforms that emphasize on empowering the women and providing them with content that they need to get better at their jobs and be a valuable asset to the organizations they work for. Still, there is a large number of women who are making transitions to more technical jobs and WiRAM is one of those platforms where women can get the educational content and training they need to handle the asset management work and get ahead in the reliability and maintenance industry.
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SOR 240 Should Reliability Engineers Encourage Component Derating?
Should Reliability Engineers Encourage Component Derating?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of derating components to increase the reliability of the larger system. Although Fred and Kirk agree on most reliability topics, derating by the traditional reliability guidebooks is not one of them.
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Practical Application of DOE
Get Started with DOE with This Practical Introduction and Overview
A tool is only as useful as knowing when and how to use it. In this webinar, we will discuss identifying an appropriate DOE project and setting up (define) a DOE. A process for DOE execution will be provided and discussed. We will also provide the thought processes to know when a DOE application is present. [Read more…]
SOR 239 Automation, Reliability, in a Factory Setting
Automation, Reliability, in a Factory Setting
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James and Fred discussing how factory equipment automation can create large amounts of data that may or may not be useful.
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Larry Leemis, Scholar and Author
Fred interviews Larry Leemis about his teaching, work, and recent book on R software.
SOR 238 Reliability Lean and QFD
Reliability Lean and QFD
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John and Fred discussing the Lean Quality Functional Deployment as an effective way to incorporate the voice of the customer into the product development process.
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SOR 237 Reliability in Lean or Agile Product Development
Reliability in Lean or Agile Product Development
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John and Fred discussing how lean and agile approaches fit within your reliability program.
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Fundamentals of Risk
An Introduction, Basic Definitions, and Overview of a Risk Management Framework
Risk is borne from uncertainty. The reliability performance of your product line and individual products is uncertain. Identifying and understanding the risks involved helps your team mitigate reliability performance risks.
An obvious risk and common question when developing a new product involves the field failure rate. If the failure rate is too high, it may dissuade customers from buying the product. If too low, we assign funds unnecessarily to cover unrealized warranty expenses. [Read more…]
65 – CMMS Implementation Pitfalls with Scott Rojas
CMMS Implementation Pitfalls with Scott Rojas
CMMS is the best way to ensure better performance of your assets and organizations tend to buy systems like that because they want to automate their job processes to monitor and control the performances closely. Putting together a team of experts is a good way to do your need analysis. The selection and implementation process depends on the experience of that team because there are a lot of CMMS available in the industry. Your team is going to help you select, design, and configure those systems depending on your requirements and purposes. The needs in some cases could be that you want to integrate the CMMS with other systems they have in place. The Mobility Solutions are what most of the organizations want now.
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SOR 236 Evolution of Pinball Machine Reliability
Evolution of Pinball Machine Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s recent attendance at the Denver Pinball Showdown, a local Pinball conference and reliability.
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