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Kirk and Fred discussing comments we have received throughout the history of “Speaking of Reliability”. In this podcast we discuss one of the questions “should I calculate an average MTTR or MTBF ? “. We review the reasons that calculating an average time to or between failures does little to help make more reliable systems. ᐅ Play Episode
There are times when companies look for bringing in a new piece of equipment or implement a system that makes their work easier. They install it properly and put a lot of effort into making that equipment work with the other systems in place but the results still don’t meet their expectations. So, what else can they do to make the outcome desirable? That is what should be taken into account in the design phase because if you have the design exactly right, it is easier to fix things when failures occur.
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Carl and Fred discussing the organization of the reliability activity and the benefits and shortcomings of locating reliability in different departments.
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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of DFR from the long-term point of view. An effective DFR program takes time, and cannot be done with shortcuts. However, it is very much worth the effort.
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Tim interviews Kevin Stewart a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning root cause analysis.
In most of the organizations, Failure Modes and Effect Analysis, is taken as a light exercise where people come, argue, and leave without learning a single thing of value for their company. There is a lot going on when you are in need of FMEA because unless your equipment is failing, downtime is increasing, and you are losing big cash, why would you even bother to do FMEA right? Well, there is the answer why FMEA workshops lead to nothing knowledgeable in the organizations. FMEA is a very useful tool for you to know the causes of equipment failure and the steps you can take to prevent it from happening again.
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Andre and Fred discussing the use of parts count prediction by safety standards.
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Andre and Fred discussing a basic overview and the benefits of PHM.
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When it comes to improving your reliability and maintenance programs, communication is the key to successful implementation of any sustainable business initiative. The new business processes are always complicated to understand and when you don’t make clear job plans for them, it becomes very difficult to get everyone on the same page. There are a lot of problems arise because the plan was either not clearly communicated to the team or scheduling technique wasn’t known to everyone. All of these aspects lead to failures because people aren’t aware of certain things they should have complete information about.
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James and Fred discussing just how useful attending a conference can be.
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Adam and Fred discussing discussions at conferences. With friends, colleagues, and just the person sitting next to you.
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Monitoring reliability performance requires both measurement and reporting skills. Focusing on making decisions, we can tailor our metrics to improve our reliability program today. The right measures allow your team to spot problems and solve them.
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Fred interviews Ryan Van Fleet, a product engineer at Relyence about his career and reliability software.
There are a lot of companies that have their own Preventive Maintenance programs now and only a few of those are good at it. Even though they perform regular preventive maintenance but they never get the desired results. The equipment still fails frequently and they are annoyed by the fact that what they do never works. It is mostly because they do the same routine compliance over and over again without ever trying anything new or at the very least learn about new practices. This is where the Preventive Maintenance fails and companies bear the extra cost of maintenance.
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Adam and Fred discussing the initial tasks when dealing with field data.
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