MD 197 6 Myths about Machine Learning that M&R Professionals Must Overcome with Blair Fraser

For many asset-intensive businesses, conversations about adopting maintenance and reliability-focused AI or Machine Learning solutions are infused with widespread myths, illogical barriers, and a general sense of fear. You have likely overheard a conversation on the topic that ended with: “We aren’t ready for that.”

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MM S4:E10 Lucas Marino

Lucas Marino

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Lucas Marino, who wears many hats, one of them being the Life Cycle Engineer at Amentum! Lucas and Ryan talk about America’s Port — why they are struggling to keep up, who is profiting from this crisis, who is hurting from it, and who is to blame. Listen today! [Read more…]

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RM 088: A Conversation about Electric Vehicles with Indium’s Brian O’Leary

A Conversation about Electric Vehicles with Indium’s Brian O’Leary

One of my favorite subjects is the electrification of automobiles, not just electric cars, which are with us now, but completely autonomous vehicles. When I was a kid in the 1960’s, we were promised flying cars by the year 2000. While that goal was not met, the real prospect of autonomous vehicles in our lifetime is extremely exciting, terrifying, and realistic.

Brian and I discuss the future of the automobile industry and what’s required for the electronics industry and the world.

Brian may be reached here:
Brian O’Leary
Global Accounts Manager, Global Head e-Mobility & Infrastructure
Indium
Email: boleary@indium.com
Website: https://www.indium.com

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CT E04: The Power of Small Multiples and a Progressive Search to Solve Tough Problems with John Allen

In this episode, John Allen of the New Science of Fixing Things and I talk about a powerful deterministic approach to diagnosing and solving tough problems to improve product quality, reliability and performance. John, who is also one of the original founders of Shainin, LLC, walks us through the approach that he and his group have developed, thanks to which teams are able to solve tough problems in very little time.

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QDD 041 Getting Comfortable with using Reliability Results

Getting Comfortable with using Reliability Results

We want to engage a reliability engineer in an analysis for our product design. They can help us produce some great information from which we can make decisions. You might be feeling uncomfortable about our team making a design decision based on those results. You don’t quite understand how the reliability engineer came up with the answer. You want to know where that information comes from so you can gauge the level of project risk of our decision.

We peel-back the curtain on reliability engineering methods. We explore reliability engineering’s roots and development, from the 1950’s through today, to better understand the results of an analysis. Having a general understanding of reliability methods can help us get comfortable with using the results.

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RiM 02: Good to Great Lubrication Practices

Good to Great Lubrication Practices

In this episode, I speak with Shane Scriven about Lubrication and some best practices that an organization can implement. We also discuss the relationship between Lubrication Management and Asset management standards as a way to maximize benefits and what we can do to increase the competency of our workforce.

To check out more on ISO550001 standard: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/knowledge/what-is-asset-management.html

If you have any questions on Lubrication or want to have a chat on Reliability get in touch with Shane here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-scriven/

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298 – Risk Based Inspection with Ricardo Santos

Risk Based Inspection with Ricardo Santos

It is my pleasure to welcome Ricardo Santos to the podcast, a Senior Manager at Deloitte.

In this episode we covered:

What is RBI – Risk-Based Inspection?
When would organizations want to leverage risk-based inspections over RCM or something else?
Why do organizations want to go about implementing RBI process?

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SOR 725 Common Slope Assumption

Common Slope Assumption

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss a ‘common slope assumption’ … which is something that only those of you with reliability engineering experience will have heard about. This is all about what we called ‘accelerated life testing’ where we increase stresses to accelerate failure. And software that is used to model accelerated life testing. Keen to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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PR S2:E17 w/ George Parada

George Parada

George is a reliability leader who discovered his passion in this realm when he wanted to discover a better way to improve overall operations as a new production supervisor right out of college. Since then he has spent a large portion of his career working for a few large food and beverage organizations where he has driven fundamental improvement in foundational maintenance and reliability practices through connecting people and processes. With a strong passion to always excel with cross functional teams, he has strived to challenge the status quo to help the organization address gaps through a strategic and organized fashion. George realized early in his career that genuine leadership allows us all to be successful in the day to day work we do, to not only empower ourselves but others to reach the goals of the organization. From implementing CMMS systems to developing technical training programs for new engineers to working with senior leaders in developing reliability strategy, George loves working with people and leading strategic change. George is currently responsible for leading a new the global asset management programs for Facebook data center operations. Outside of work, George loves traveling around the world with his wife Daysi and is a San Francisco Bay Area sports fanatic. George received his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from SF State University and a double Masters in Engineering and Business from San Jose State University.

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SOR 724 Key Characteristics Revisited

Key Characteristics Revisited

Abstract

Carl and Fred having a new conversation about the age-old topic of key characteristics, and how they are used to improve products and processes.
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WIM S1:E3 Diversifying your Network with Charli K Matthews

Diversifying your Network with Charli K Matthews

In this episode of the Women in Maintenance Podcast, we have the CEO of Empowering Brands, Charli K Matthews, on the show! Listen now to learn more about the inspiration behind Empowering Women in Industry, why diversifying your network is necessary, and how to take action today.
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QDD 040 How to Self-Advocate for More Customer Face Time (and why it’s important)

How to Self-Advocate for More Customer Face Time (and why it’s important)

There are many stories of design successes attributed to the right level of understanding of the customer. Product designers make decisions, daily, about how a product is going to look and perform. So, we need to really understand the customer. And, to really get the customer, engineers need to spend time with them.

Sometimes, the business doesn’t want us to interact with the customer or doesn’t think it would be valuable. Objections include that we’re not prepared for the user’s environment, that we’re too blunt or honest, or that we just overgeneralize what we learn, anyway. Or, there’s a reluctance because of costs. Besides seeing these objections first hand, someone also listed them out in a published book! This shows that this is common across industries.

Is that fair to design engineers? No matter if it’s fair or not. We can prepare ourselves to address those objections. We talk about how we can prepare ourselves to self-advocate for more customer face time.

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RiM 01: Introduction to Reliability – It Matters!

Introduction to Reliability – It Matters!

In this episode I talk about why I wanted to start this podcast and how I intend to help others learn about Reliability and de-mystify the common misconceptions.

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MD 196 Back to the Basics – Training Fundamentals With Neil Summers & Lucas Marino

In this episode of our back to the basics series we welcome Neil Summers & Lucas Marino to talk about training. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, including how to build a training program, when it is appropriate to provide training, the importance of internal training, and how to value training so it doesn’t get cut.

Episode Shout Outs:

Neil Summers – https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-summers-8493b35b/

Lucas Marino – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-marino-deng/

https://www.eastpartnership.org/

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297 – The Silent Killer of Rotating Machinery – Softfoot with Daus Studenberg

The Silent Killer of Rotating Machinery – Softfoot with Daus Studenberg

It is my pleasure to welcome Daus Studenberg to the podcast, the product manager, a national product manager of the alignment with Lu DACA.

In this episode we covered:

How many ways can we?
What is soft foot?
If we’re going to perform a proper installation, we got to consider soft foot. Is that before or after we do an alignment?

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