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104 – What’s a Process Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

104 – What’s a Process Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

What’s a Process Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

The organizations that are more innovative and have a mark in the industry tend to do things that others don’t. So, what are those things and how do they do that? This is an area where process engineers play their role to increase the production and solve problems that come along the way. Sometimes they have to experiment using different chemicals, use the calculations, and use the recorded data to come up with processes that can increase the yield of a product without compromising the quality. Their job is to come up with the best ways to quantify product.
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SOR 314 Change in Vehicle Reliability with Autonomous Vehicles

SOR 314 Change in Vehicle Reliability with Autonomous Vehicles

Change in Vehicle Reliability with Autonomous Vehicles

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Chris and Fred discuss what likely autonomous vehicle (AV) operations mean to the ‘reliability industry’ given that these vehicles will have completely different operating profiles with perhaps surprising results.
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SOR 313 GM Announced the Launch of Autonomous Vehicles

SOR 313 GM Announced the Launch of Autonomous Vehicles

GM Announced the Launch of Autonomous Vehicles

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Chris and Fred discuss GM’s recent announcement that they were going to start mass producing ‘truly’ autonomous vehicles (AVs) for use by 2019 and how this signals industry’s (not academia’s) intent to ‘make this happen.’
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103 – Leadership with Bill Leahy

103 – Leadership with Bill Leahy

Leadership with Bill Leahy

If there are a couple of things that pops to mind when talking about leadership is that leaders are made not born and that all leaders shared the same set of qualities that make them as such (think about John C. Maxwell’s book “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader”). These two statements seem to complement each other and reflect the general tone of today’s podcast episode.
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102 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 2 of 2

102 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 2 of 2

Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 2 of 2

Striving to be best in class is perhaps the ultimate goal of every organization. But what exactly does it take to get there? In the first part of this podcast, we talked about the changes seen in maintenance, reliability, and failure analysis over the years and what makes these practices successful in best in class organizations.
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101 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 1 of 2

101 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 1 of 2

Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 1 of 2

The leap towards becoming a best-in-class company is challenging. If you’re like most people, you might have wondered the difference between best in class companies and typical companies as far as reliability practices are concerned. While it’s true that there are other elements that are at play that make for a best-in-class company, one can’t deny that maintenance and reliability is one differentiating factor and a critical element at that.
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100 – People and Recruitment with Scott MacKenzie

100 – People and Recruitment with Scott MacKenzie

People and Recruitment with Scott MacKenzie

In today’s labor market, recruiting and retaining skilled workers is still a challenge in the industrial sect. In the case of Scott MacKenzie who is the President of LEAF Services, a company that provides cost-effective industrial labor solutions, clients come to him to look for manpower who are safe, focused, and with industrial background. The problem? Clients’ demand for labor is urgent, and some may even request “I need people tomorrow”.
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