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Supportability (and FMEAs/FMECAs)

Supportability (and FMEAs/FMECAs)

Supportability
(and FMEAs/FMECAs)

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

What is ‘supportability?’ Easy! It’s the ability of your product, system or service to be supported. But how do we get this so wrong so often? Well, the first way is by thinking that supportability is actually some activity where you work out how many spares you need to have on your shelf to last a year (for example). But what if your product, system, or service fails so often and is so difficult to repair that it needs LOTS of spare parts? Working this out doesn’t make it more supportable. Another way people get supportability wrong is by thinking about it AFTER you have designed something. How is this wrong? Well … supportability needs to be DESIGNED INTO your product, system, or service. [Read more…]

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PR S2:E8 Leadership w/ Tom Moriarty

PR S2:E8 Leadership w/ Tom Moriarty

Leadership w/ Tom Moriarty

Thomas J. Moriarty, PE, CMRP is president of Alidade Maintenance Engineering and Reliability, Inc. (Alidade MER). Founded in 2004, its mission is to help others lead full and satisfying lives through organizational reliability and productive leadership; particularly in physical asset management, operations, maintenance and reliability engineering.

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TLC 027 Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

TLC 027 Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Thomas Boehm in Episode 27 of this series. Thom H. Boehm is a knitting machine technician at Stanfield’s Ltd., a textile mill in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has worked there for the last 20 years, and before that was an English teacher in Japan.  At Stanfield’s, although down in old textile lingo as a knitter/fixer, he does whatever needs to be done to keep the room functioning as well as possible, and this includes repairing and maintaining a host of different styles of circular knitting machines.

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QDD 031 5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements

QDD 031 5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements

5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements

Good reliability requirements are going to drive our design decisions relating to the concept, the components, the materials, and other stuff. So, the moment to start defining reliability requirements is early in the design process. But, what makes a well-defined reliability requirement? There are five aspects it should cover: do you know what they are? 

We’ll describe what makes a good reliability requirement and examples of common (but not good) requirements.

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MD 191 Lubrication Explained Joint Podcast with Rafe Britton

MD 191 Lubrication Explained Joint Podcast with Rafe Britton

MD 191 Lubrication Explained Joint Podcast with Rafe Britton

A joint episode with Rafe Britton of Lubrication Expert on Industry 4.0 & Tech Trends in Maintenance.

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

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MM S4:E06 From the Military to Maintenance – How to Transition into a Successful Career

MM S4:E06 From the Military to Maintenance – How to Transition into a Successful Career

From the Military to Maintenance – How to Transition into a Successful Career

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have a special panel episode co-hosted by Gary Wood, U.S. Army Ranger and UpKeep Senior Implementation Manager. To celebrate Veterans Day, we invite you to spend time with four Veterans who have transitioned from the US Armed Forces to a successful career in maintenance and reliability. Please join us to hear their stories of service, their unique perspective on how they prepared for their transition, and why you should hire a veteran.
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287 – Evolution of Technology with Simon Jagers

287 – Evolution of Technology with Simon Jagers

Evolution of Technology with Simon Jagers

It’s my pleasure to welcome back Simon Jaegers to the podcast.

He is one of the founders of Samotics in 2015. His professional career has been spent in technology, usually evolving around either making data, storing it, or processing it. Samotics provides condition monitoring technology based on electrical signature analysis.

In this episode we covered:

  • When we talk about technology evolution, is it similar to how people, animals, reptiles evolve as well? Or is it something completely different?
  • Why is it useful to understand that algorithm?
  • What influences the growth of technologies?

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PR S2:E7 Ryan Chan, CEO of Upkeep Technologies

PR S2:E7 Ryan Chan, CEO of Upkeep Technologies

Ryan Chan, CEO of Upkeep Technologies

Ryan Chan is CEO and Founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. He is a Chemical Engineer from UC Berkeley, was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Manufacturing in 2018, and is part of the Official Forbes Technology Council. Ryan started UpKeep out of passion and frustration by the lack of mobility in today’s maintenance management software. UpKeep has now been deployed to over 10,000 businesses and is a leader in mobile-first maintenance management software.

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TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Suzane Greeman in Episode 26 of this series. Suzane Greeman is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions, a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a senior asset management consultant and instructor in North America working with clients who manage assets in excess of $75 Billion. She has over 23 years of experience across several asset management disciplines and has implemented asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment, airport, and maritime transportation assets.

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QDD 030 Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

QDD 030 Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

We have good requirements for the reliability of our design. We also have a preliminary design with ideas of how we’re going to manufacture it. Is our design idea good enough? Are there things we should do to improve its performance and reliability?

For a physical product, there are three general stages in its life cycle. In many cases the failure rates of physical products can be represented by a reliability bathtub curve. This curve is really a plot of a hazard rate function, also known as a failure rate function. We talk about data collection in the early design phase, what types of failures are typical for each phase, and design decisions we may make to improve our reliability, based on the failure rate function we plot for our system.

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Helping Products Survive Transportation

Helping Products Survive Transportation

Helping Products Survive Transportation

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

Besides building your product inside your customer’s facility, your product will require some form of transportation to move from your factory to your customer. When your product doesn’t work ‘out of the box’, that is considered ‘not good’ for customer satisfaction.
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