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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘wrapped around the axle.’ It is one of those perfect analogies … especially for people who fall for imperfect analogies! Like that assuming that all we have to do is wait for ‘early failures’ to disappear before we get into to the ‘bottom part of the bathtub curve’ … really?
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader David Howard in Episode 13 of this series. David Howard is an American entrepreneur, a veteran of the United States Air Force, and respected leader in the predictive maintenance industry. David is the CEO of Erbessd Instruments and is responsible for Strategic Direction, Distribution, Sales, Marketing and Operations worldwide.
We’re in the middle of our design process and we’re getting some of the first parts in hand, from prototyping or benchtops or our manufacturing cell. Let’s test them and finish our verification testing! Maybe we shouldn’t.
We talk about the concept of production equivalent: what it means and when it’s important to consider.
Reliability testing is expensive. For that expense, the testing results should provide timely, meaningful results. Results that provide actionable information and insights.
The idea of running a set of standard tests or tests that we ‘commonly run’ in many cases has little value. Each test (experiment) should be conducted for specific reasons related to the current project and current knowledge. [Read more…]
Bob and I delve into how to break down a seemingly chaotic situation into its manageable components, letting the evidence lead the way to the physical, human, and latent/organizational root causes.
Danny and I discuss how we can regularly assess the whole plant and derive useful insight to avoid repeating mistakes and missing opportunities to improve.
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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Tim Jensen talks about:
• Solder paste selection best practices
• Low temperature solder
• Common mistakes made when using solder paste
• Solder paste jetting / micro-dispensing
• And much more
Tim Jensen may be reached here:
tjensen@indium.com
Indium Corporation
https://www.indium.com
Welcome Ron back to the podcast. Ron is an author and the founder of RM Group.
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Chris and Kirk discuss how militaries go about making and getting reliable stuff. And this is sometimes more successful than others …
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Chris and Carl ask each other … by how much do FMEAs improve reliability? … or reduce failure?
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On this bonus episode of Maintenance Disrupted, we bring you another Leadership Launchpad Project podcast with Tom Furnival. Tom joins Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky to discuss the importance of mindset and how it affects our leadership.
Special Offer! We are giving away 10 free Fearless Organization Scans & Debriefs. If you’re one of the first 10 people to ask Susan or Rob about the scan, you can get one for your team! Reach out to Rob here – rob@highperformancenarrative.com or Susan at susan@elitehighperformance.com
If you want a private offering of The Leadership Launchpad Project program at your site, email rob@highperformancenarrative.com
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In this week’s special episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we’ll be doing another Community Question Round-Up, where we review questions submitted by members in our Maintenance Community Slack group and hear insight from one of our Maintenance Experts in Residence, the Reliability Sherpa himself — Ramesh Gulati. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Perry Steele in Episode 12 of this series. Perry Steele is a maintenance & reliability leader that has extensive experience in large, industrial manufacturing facilities. He has a passion for helping teams Deliver Certainty to their customers in these organizations.
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an old saying, and it holds true! Visual standards, visual aids, and quality standards are a great tool, especially in design when communicating the limits of acceptability. This episode explores areas to capture this type of information and how it can be used not just for Quality Assurance and Production, but also for design verification protocols, FMEA, root cause analysis, and future field defect investigations (to name a few).
Searching for a job is hard! Whether you currently have a job, lost your job, or quit your job, finding that next one is a daunting task. In this weeks episode our panel discusses searching for a job. Some great tips on how to get your resume noticed, perform better in interviews, and ultimately land that dream job.
Episode Shout Outs:
Mike Persson – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepersson/
Carl Kaufman – https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlkaufman4/
Allyson Hawley – https://www.linkedin.com/in/allyson-hawley-9906a494/
KPO Staffing – https://www.kpostaffing.com/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted. If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com
Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted
Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Welcome Cliff Williams back to the Podcast. Cliff is a principal advisor with People and Process as well as TMS Asset Management. The guest has also worked as an asset manager for many years.
In this episode we covered: