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Reliability Matters is a podcast on the subject of reliability of circuit assemblies. Reliability “best practices” and success stories are discussed. This podcast features interviews with experts in the electronic assembly industry.
All electronic production segments which effect product reliability are on the table. This includes contamination, coating, cleanliness assessment, inspection, building for harsh environments and more. ᐅ Play Episode
Scheduling is one of the key pieces in Maintenance and Management. When you are working on a piece of equipment vigorously to meet your production goals, some problems now and then are bound to occur. Now, these problems need to be fixed in time. This is how a maintenance job starts. When a job is created, it is planned and then needs time and resources to be completed successfully. That’s where scheduling comes in. The job of Maintenance Scheduler involves gathering all the information about a job, make sense of it, and then coordinate with all the related department to complete it just as planned.
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On this week’s episode, George Williams, Joe Anderson and Paul Crocker sit down with me to talk about public speaking, the International Maintenance Conference (IMC) and where we’re going to be in 2019. Happy Holidays and I sincerely appreciate you listening!
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Kirk and Fred discussing ways to find intermittent system failures.
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It is a common practice in the organizations to spend money on the maintenance of the equipment. They bring in a lot of people on board to fix the machines and every time a failure occurs, the maintenance guys do a temporary fix, and on and on it goes. In this process of fixing machines, if the organizations paid as much attention to the reliability of the assets rather than divert all their resources towards maintenance side of things, they might finally have a sustainable maintenance and reliability program. Maintenance and Reliability go hand in hand. You can’t just focus on maintenance alone.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a real case of product failure for a OEM sub-supplier and determining how to isolate the cause
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There are new emerging technologies that are helping organizations in the Maintenance and Reliability industry. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of things are one of the hot topics out there. The part of IOT that is used for the industry best practices is called iIOT. When it comes to the Predictive Maintenance, iIOT and Augmented Reality are one of the best solutions in the Market. They might be suitable for organizations that have a legacy to live up to but the money that you invest in these data sensing technologies is worth everything.
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Delegation is one of the most important pieces of leadership and organizational development. Delegation means that you are sharing the resources for the betterment of resources. It not only helps in organizational development but it also helps in individual growth of the employees. The thing with delegation is that it requires acceptance and willingness of the personnel to be successful. The other difficulty comes forth when there are individual agendas and egos are at stakes. Some people just have a hard time letting go of the control and power that they have. But overall, delegation is a key trait that helps you bring about the change management.
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On this week’s episode, Dr. Liam LaTouche, ND returns to the show. We talk about staying healthy over the holidays, alcohol consumption and effective weight loss.
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Planning and scheduling is a term often used in the organizations. It might be used together but there is a difference in ‘planning’ and ‘scheduling’. Planning is when you determine what jobs you have to do, develop a procedure to execute the job, assign resources, and then utilize those resources in the best way possible. Only when you have successfully planned a work-order, you can decide when to do it in the scheduling part. So both the processes go together and one can’t be completed successfully without the other. Only scheduling something is not going to help you successfully implement it.
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Adam and Fred discussing how Pareto analysis can be a good guide for failure mode analysis but is only a start for the process.
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Standards provide guidance, a common language, and a bit of confusion. Using the right standard and using it well can help your reliability program. Using standards poorly will harm your ability to create reliable products.
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Adam and Fred discussing how data influences design and program decisions.
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Work management directly impacts the reliability function within the organizations. Work management means to utilize your resources in the best way possible to drive improvement and performance. These resources may include spares, systems, and all the other tools that can help you maintain the equipment.
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When an organization decides to replace or transition all of their storage data onto a CMMS, it is not just about making the work easier and efficient. You can’t just buy a software online and the expect it to solve your maintenance issues and reduce cost. CMMS is just a tool to improve your work order by properly integrating it with your current data systems and then plan your work so that you would not have to make uninformed decisions anymore. You will have all the data to help you make an intelligent decision, save time, and reduce your maintenance cost in the end.
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