PhD or Home Grown Reliability Engineers
Are the stereotypes of either truly indicative of reliability engineers in ways that can hurt your organization?
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SOR 289 PhD or Home Grown Reliability Engineers
91 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2
Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2
In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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SOR 288 The Reliability Bad News Delivery
The Reliability Bad News Delivery
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Adam and Fred discussing the challenge and best practices for reporting on product and program issues.
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SOR 287 The Reliability Disconnect
The Reliability Disconnect
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Adam and Fred discussing the disconnect between project plans for significant reliability activities and the common compromise of minimal reliability analysis and testing in a program.
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DTK Dr Kishor Trivedi Scholar
Dr. Kishor Trivedi, Scholar
Tim interviews Dr. Kishor Trivedi about his teaching and writing in the area of reliability and available engineering.
90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1
Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1
In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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SOR 286 Risks in Accelerated Life Test Results
Risks in Accelerated Life Test Results
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Andre and Fred discussing some of the ways an ALT can lead you astray, quickly.
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SOR 285 Weibull Analysis and Physics Trumps Mathematics
Weibull Analysis and Physics Trumps Mathematics
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Andre and Fred discussing the need to understand failures mechanisms using a combination of analysis and physics.
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89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas
Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas
There has always been room for improvement when it comes to reliability and future holds a few surprise to take the predictive maintenance practices to a new level. That new level is prescriptive maintenance. That word is going to be more common in the next few years in the reliability and maintenance industry. Prescriptive maintenance can be defined as a concept that not only includes detecting degrading in the assets well ahead, it also prescribes a solution to mitigate that problem. There are multiple scenarios that you run here to know the potential outcomes and then make a decision about the operations and maintenance of the systems.
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SOR 284 The Benefits of Equipment Cleanliness
The Benefits of Equipment Cleanliness
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James and Fred discussing the necessity of keeping equipment clean and orderly.
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SOR 283 Difference Between Quality and Reliability
Difference Between Quality and Reliability
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how the disciplines of Quality and Reliability differ.
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88 – Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell
Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell
When it comes to reliability programs, many organizations only focus on the cost reduction of assets and that is a terrible practice. It is not the only goal that reliability program can be deduced to achieve. There are a lot of other activities that can generate a sustainable revenue for you if you perform the necessary maintenance activities for keeping your assets working more efficiently. The real goals of the reliability programs should be to reduce downtime, increase availability, and enhance the performance of those assets that should be working for continuous production.
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SOR 282 Reliability Building Credibility by Helping in Urgent Situations
Reliability Building Credibility by Helping in Urgent Situations
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how reliability engineers can build credibility within the larger product development team.
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SOR 281 Including your Customer in your Reliability Program
Including your Customer in your Reliability Program
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Adam and John Kreucher discuss engaging the customer in the new product maturing process.
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Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability
Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability podcast episode
I define a reliability failure as something that costs your organization money. It might be a warranty expense or a lost customer. A failure may also create customer expenses, too. Let’s talk about the range of un-reliability costs and their impacts.
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