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The reliability engineering discipline, like all fields of endeavor, is changing. The inclusion of risk management, the shift to proactively avoiding field failures, and the increasing use of sensors and models all make the future fascinating.
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Episode 32: A Conversation with Greg Smith and Tony Lentz About Stencil Design and Void Reduction
Greg and Tony talk to me about stencil design and how to reduce voiding. Voiding is a key concern in specific electronic applications including automotive and LED electronic manufacturing. Greg and Tony published a paper entitled “Root Cause Stencil Design for SMT Component Thermal Lands”
Download here: https://tinyurl.com/szx3xt8
Greg Smith can be reached here: gsmith@blueringstencils.com
Tony Lentz can be reached here: tlentz@fctassembly.com
On this week’s episode, I welcome Stuart Fergusson from Fiix Software to talk about CMMS integration. We discuss what other software or data sources should be connected and how to get started.
I’m hoping to outsource some of the editing and administrative work that comes with producing content in 2020 so you will be hearing some advertising on this podcast. If you’re 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, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
If you haven’t yet, check out my website robsreliability.comand sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Finally, if there are any topics, guests you’d like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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In maintenance and reliability industry, soft skills are just as important as the hard skills. When you are faced with uncertain and complex situations, it becomes difficult to make good decisions. That’s why it comes in handy if you are good at critical thinking and can perform better under pressure as compared to your peers. Some organizations have competitive environment and they have limited resources to deploy for different programs. In these cases, they need to identify and put certain activities in place that would help their employees make the best use of those scarce resources.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we discuss effective maintenance planning and scheduling with Jeff Shiver. Only about 10% of planner schedulers are utilized effectively. Jeff Shiver shares with us how to interview, train and measure success for maintenance planners to make sure your business is in that 10%.
James and Fred discussing the few ways to deal with pieces of equipment that fail either often or expensively.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a listener’s question on how to get started with HALT (Highly Accelerated Limit Test).
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Jason Apps to the show. Jason is the CEO of ARMS Reliability and the author of an article titled, “Driving a Reliability Culture”. We discuss culture, purpose and why reliability engineers are set up to fail.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/driving-reliability-culture-jason-apps
Finally, if there are any topics, guests you’d like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
Over the years, maintenance procedures have become a bore for many plant operators. They are likely to be clunky documentation that is choppy with instruction and referring to another document – the manual. Effective maintenance procedures should consider that our attention span today is shorter than ever. They need to be short, clear and to the point.
Ricky of World Class Maintenance shares tips on how we can implement effective maintenance procedures. Key highlights of the show are:
Kirk and Fred discussing what engineers estimated stress and environmental use conditions and loads for long term use and reliability during new product development
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Carl and Fred discussing the interaction of reliability engineering with supply chain management.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Fred Schenkelberg back to the show. Fred is the host of the Speaking of Reliability podcast and the owner of AccendoReliability.com. We talk about why we podcast, why you need to make friends with someone in finance and how to effectively sell reliability within your organization.
If you haven’t yet, check out my website robsreliability.comand sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Finally, if there are any topics, guests you’d like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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Even though the vibration analysis has been around for a long time, there are very few organizations that use it. Machinery vibration is the study of the behavior of rotating machinery for detecting faults based on the monitoring of different machinery components using vibration signals. All the rotating machines vibrate—either in a good or bad way—and vibration analysis is the best way to predict machinery behavior by making it part of your predictive maintenance program. It helps you access machinery health, predict failures, and do corrective actions when needed. So, if you have critical rotating machinery in your facility, vibration analysis is a must.
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of how to integrate reliability into your company’s product development process.
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James and Fred discussing how being good at change management matters for reliability folks.
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