Is Meeting the Standard Enough?
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Carl and Fred discussing a question: is meeting regulatory standards sufficient to ensure a product is safe and reliable?
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SOR 452 Is Meeting the Standard Enough
SOR 451 Risk Identification Tools and Use
Risk-Identification Tools and Their Use
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Carl and Fred discussing risk-identification tools, one of the four categories of reliability tools.
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RRP 066 Voice of the Customer with Shadrach Stephens
RRP 066 Voice of the Customer with Shadrach Stephens
On this week’s episode, I welcome on Shadrach Stephens to talk about collaboration, reliability leadership and the voice of the customer.
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172-Key Performance Influencer with Bill Leahy
Key Performance Influencer with Bill Leahy
What does a KPI mean to you? Is it just a performance measurement tool to you? Is it a metrics that you have developed to see how your systems are doing? A KPI is all of these things but much more than that. A KPI is an organizational goal that you have to achieve. When you have smaller key performance Influencer in place to drive people’s behavior towards achieving a larger organizational goal, that’s when a KPI becomes effective. So, we are using our key performance influencers—any incentives or benefits that would keep the employees motivated—to achieve our performance goals on a day to day basis which ultimately leads to achieving all the KPIs an organizations might have set in.
In this episode, we covered:
- What exactly is KPI?
- How can you utilize KPI efficiently?
- What is the purpose of KPI and how can it help your organization?
- And much more!
PR 027 Supply Chain and Plant Reliability
Supply Chain and Plant Reliability
In this episode Joe and George discuss the impact supply chain has on overall plant performance. Find out how they impact reliability and what you need to do to educate them before their efforts to save company money do the opposite.
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RM 022 – A Conversation About Adhesion Testing with BTG Lab’s Materials Scientist Elizabeth Kidd
A Conversation About Adhesion Testing with BTG Lab’s Materials Scientist Elizabeth Kidd
On this episode, we’ll be discussing surface adhesion. What makes a surface more adherable, what makes it less adherable, and most importantly, how can one determine a surface’s adhere-ability (is that a word?) before applying a coating.
SOR 450 Customer Experience and Failures – Its not you its them!
Customer Experience and Failures – Its not you its them!
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to ‘fail.’ Not from a personal sense! But what does it mean for your product to fail. Engineering or design specifications describe what the product or system must do. So does failure simply occur when the product can no longer meet all these specifications? What if your product or system meets all these criteria – but your customer ‘thinks’ is has failed? We have seen many instances where a group of people who design and make products will vehemently argue that even if the customer thinks something has failed when it meets the specifications, then nothing is wrong. Is it? What do you think the customer will do? Do you think they will be ‘happy’? If this is a problem you come across, then listen to this podcast.
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SOR 449 When to Use a Previous Test Plan
When to Use a Previous Test Plan
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Chris and Fred discuss when (and if) you can use a reliability test plan that you have used before. If it worked then … why won’t it work now? Won’t you save money, time and other things that you can get bonuses for? Well yes. We received a question from one of our listeners who asked why you might not want to test the product the same way. There are many good reasons why you wouldn’t want to do this. If you want to learn more, listen to this podcast.
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RRP 065 Reliability in Mining with Steve Dobie
RRP 065 Reliability in Mining with Steve Dobie
This week’s episode focuses around reliability in mining with Steve Dobie. We talk about changing cultures, haul truck tires and the impact of autonomous trucking on reliability.
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171-Decision Making with Rob
Decision Making with Rob
Decision making is a major part of maintenance and reliability. The engineers have to make decisions all the time regarding assets, budgets, and risk analysis. There are some decisions that don’t really have serious consequences but when it comes to asset management, every decision is important. They need to be economical and there should be a good balance between cost, risk, and asset performance. Most of the time, the managers are making all the decisions and they either do it based on their experience or they just go with their gut feeling.
In this episode, we covered:
- Find out why every decision is important
- How can you make a sound decision?
- Why should organizations need to always be thinking long-term?
- And much more!
SOR 448 Reliable Manufacturing Tool Selection
Reliable Manufacturing Tool Selection
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Carl and Fred discussing the unique set of reliability tools that can be used to improve the manufacturing process.
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SOR 447 Reliability Tool Selection
Reliability Tool Selection
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Carl and Fred discussing the vast array of reliability tools, and the importance of selecting the vital few most important tools for a given reliability program.
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RRP 064 Manufacturing and the IIoT with Kate Cohen
RRP 064 Manufacturing and the IIoT with Kate Cohen
On this week’s episode, I welcome on Kate Cohen of Automation Intellect to talk about the manufacturing industry and it’s challenges with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). We discuss what the IIoT is and what it’s supposed to deliver. We discuss why manufacturers should stick to manufacturing and Kate gives us her top tips on IIoT implementation.
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RM 021- A Conversation with Manuel Schöllig – There’s More to Clean than just Assemblies
A Conversation with Manuel Schöllig – There’s More to Clean than just Assemblies
A Conversation with Manuel Schöllig of Emil Otto, a German manufacturer of soldering and cleaning materials about cleaning stencils, pallets, fixtures, ovens, and assemblies. There’s more to clean than just circuit assemblies. Manual reviews many non-assembly cleaning requirements. Manuel also describes a new flux type that reportedly does not rely on heat activation to remove harmful flux activators.
170-PMO with Rick Clonan
PMO with Rick Clonan
PMO is a process where you make efficient use of your PMs to understand the operating context of your assets in a better way. Once you have identified your critical assets, you can plan your PMs accordingly. These routine PMs should be designed in a way that they serve the purpose that you want from your assets. It is not just about reducing number of PMs, it is about finding failures and mitigating them. Our primary focus should be to make the PMs, more effective and then we can focus on the efficiency as well.
In this episode, we covered:
- What is PMO?
- Learn how you can define your critical assets so you can eliminate the bad factors!
- Why should there be a team dedicated to carry out PMO activities?
- And much more!
