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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the value of certification in reliability engineering. Does it help one’s career advancement? Will it enhance one’s salary? What are the pros and cons? Does certification improve one’s prospects internationally?
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Blair Fraser is a technology evangelist with a natural curiosity to think differently and challenge current thinking. He is Director of Global IIoT Solutions for UE Systems and the co-founder and advisor to many companies in the technology space.
Blair is a passionate reliability and operational excellence professional with over 20 years of experience in designing, commissioning, maintaining and improving manufacturing equipment and processes for the manufacturing industry. A Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) and Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), Blair has dedicated his career to combining sound reliability principles and processes with the latest technology to improve asset performance and uptime for customers across the globe
Greg and Fred discuss the increasing requirement for organizations to change.
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In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Bob DiStefano, Chief Operations Officer at Performance Consulting Associates, on the show! Bob and Ryan talk about asset management and reliability best practices, why it’s important to implement these practices, and how it can benefit key stakeholders. Listen today!
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While it may seem like an untimely topic given the current supply chain shortages, storage systems for electronic components are an important part of the electronic assembly industry. While we are still in the midst of a supply chain crisis, sooner or later this will be solved and the question of where to put all of our components will be waiting for us to answer. It’s often said we don’t have time to work on the important because we’re so busy working on the urgent.
My guest today is Mike Adamson, Product Manager for Inovaxe Corporation, a provider of material handling products and services for the electronic assembly industry. In today’s hyper-competitive electronic assembly industry, efficiency and optimization are key to maintaining competitiveness.
Mike received a BS in physics from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. In addition, Mike also earned an MBA in Marketing from Lynn University.
Mike Adamson may be reached here:
michael.adamson@inovaxe.com
https://inovaxe.com
In this episode Derek Scott, Director at Paragon Process Improvements, joins us to share his thoughts on where he sees quality as a discipline develop amid current technological changes, what will become increasingly important and who might be the leaders of the future.
We’re developing requirements for our product, including setting reliability requirements. Or we’re setting acceptance criteria for our test plans.
What confidence levels do we choose? We don’t have to blindly set them – we can base it off the risks of failure, using our FMEA (failure mode effects analysis).
In this episode, I welcome Luke back to the podcast. We discuss what Poisson and Binomial distributions are, and what their applications are in the industry and specifically for Reliability Engineers.
If you want to learn more about Probability Distributions Used in Reliability Engineering then please check out this free paper:
You may have heard of Statistical Process Control (SPC), 6-sigma, Shewhart, the Japanese Economic Miracle, X̅ – R Charts … or perhaps none of them. So, if you have heard of these things (and are confused by them) or if you are involved in ‘processes’ (especially manufacturing), then this webinar might help you out. [Read more…]
In the Back to the Basics series, we get to the foundational knowledge of a specific technology or methodology in the maintenance and reliability field. This week we welcome Dr. Karl Hoffower to the show to discuss the fundamentals of Vibration Analysis. We discuss what is vibration, what applications it is used for, what are the different measurement types as well as what to look for in a sensor.
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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It is my pleasure to welcome back Paul Daoust to the podcast.
In this episode we covered:
Greg and Fred discuss the range of elements involved with change management.
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability goals … and how we ‘allocate’ them to components and subsystems. This is really important, as subsystems and components are often built and designed by different designers or organizations. So how do we translate system-level goals to MEANINGFUL lower-level goals?
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In this episode of the Women in Maintenance Podcast, we have Nancy Regan, Founder of RCMTrainingOnline.com, on the show! Nancy has over 24 years of experience working in the industry, and is extremely passionate about Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM). As a leading authority in Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Nancy will discuss the background behind her book, “The RCM Solution, A Practical Guide to Starting and Maintaining a Successful RCM Program,” and her long-established belief that each person in the industry should learn the powerful principles behind RCM. Tune in today!
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