Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Carl and Fred discussing the need to be fast in smaller or startup companies. Reliability engineering can adapt to a fast culture and support lean product development, without compromising essential tasks.
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George Williams and Ramesh Gulati discuss Planned Work! Have any questions for the Reliability Sherpa? Submit them at ask@reliabilityx.com
Chris and Fred discuss ‘regression metrics’ … or numbers that software packages spit out at us to suggest if a statistical model is ‘good’ or not. But if this is the only thing you (as an engineer) rely on to understand your system … you are already in trouble!
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There is a lot of talk about sustainability. Many organizations are taking action to reduce their carbon footprint and are advocating for electrification to replace technologies that use fossil fuels. What kind of impact will this make on maintenance and reliability?
In this week’s episode, we have Ramesh Gulati back on the show to share his insights and recommendations. Listen today!
Many presentation books and guides seem to focus on presentations that we see at conferences, for sales pitches, or for executive meetings about business topics.
They don’t seem applicable to the technical design reviews that engineers host.
But they do relate.
We talk about just 3 ways that we can change how we can plan technical design reviews, using some of the principles of presentations.
In this episode, I speak with Harish about implementing a Reliability culture and discuss some of our experiences. We also talk about what can be done to implement a culture where Reliability improvement initiatives are accepted and championed. If you want to contact Harish, you can do so via LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/harish-lala-22566942/).
If you have any questions, or want to have a chat on Reliability feel free to get in touch with me either through LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay-athalye-cmrp-cre-63555ba3/) or send me an email on akshay.athalye2@gmail.com
Welcome Bob and Ken Latino to the Podcast. Bob has been to this Podcast before discussing defect elimination and is an author involved with RCA and other reliability items. Briefly, Ken, can you introduce yourself.
I worked with Bob and my other brother at our family businesses called Reliability Centre for about 15 years. I later left for a small start up called Meridian being involved in reliability softwares. I also worked as a reliability manager at a Paper Mill for 10 years then went to GE. Presently doing consulting work Prelical.
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Chris and Fred discuss the limits of ‘technology solutions’ … especially when it comes to reliability – mainly because there is always a human being involved!
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Ronaldo Sullivan has over 25 years’ experience in the condition monitoring field. He has focused on precision laser alignments and vibration analysis for most of that time. Mr. Sullivan is the Brand and Distribution Manager for the X-Series™ Shaft Alignment Lasers (Hamar Laser Instruments Inc.). He started his career as a field service engineer with Carrier Air Conditioning. Mr. Sullivan has extensive and varied field service experience such as large HVAC system troubleshooting, vibration analysis, dynamic balancing and laser alignments. He spent 15 years at VibrAlign, inc. serving a diverse customer base with laser alignment equipment and services. Fluent in Spanish (he was born in Panama), as a Regional Manager for Commtest, he traveled extensively throughout Latin America. While serving as Director of International Sales for Azima DLI, he covered Australia as well as Latin America. Mr. Sullivan received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dianna and Fred discussing customer service: personal and professional experiences.
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Anyone working in an asset-intensive organization will know the importance of planning and prioritizing. In fact, without a robust planning and prioritization process, then creating a robust maintenance budget would be impossible.
In this week’s episode, we have Nigel D’Souza, Manager of Facilities Services at a District School Board in Central Ontario, to share his expertise on this topic! Tune in today.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Nancy Regan in Episode 31 of this series.
Nancy Regan has had a love affair (professionally speaking) with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for the last 2 decades. She believes that it is one of the most majestic asset management processes on the planet. She’s been at it for 20 years now and there’s nothing she would rather do.
This interview focuses on product design from a marketing viewpoint, including sales and commercial operations.
“A Talk with Cross Functional Experts” is a Quality during Design interview series. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they’re involved and work with product design engineering teammates.
Today we speak with Laura Krick, a VP for a global medical device manufacturer (who has, since our interview, been promoted to Chief Commercial Officer – congratulations!). She’s involved in marketing, sales, and commercial operations for new product development.
We talk about these topics:
Listen to a Chat with Laura. Gain a different perspective and get actionable advice.
Welcome Paul to the Podcast. Paul is the founder of Scio Asset Management. Although, briefly, tell us about yourself.
I have almost 30 years experience in engineering reliability maintenance and both strategic and holistic asset management. At Scio we are providing frameworks for leadership in asset management that is based on first principle decision making. Also launching Assetiers that is a platform for leaders to discuss the challenges that we have in asset management.
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Dianna and Fred discussing why and how to encourage new engineers and foster younger generations to consider engineering as a profession.
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