Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failures during development.
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One thing that spending so much time online has highlighted is that there are a lot of good people out there with answers to most problems. Whether you are searching for lubrications issues, Planning and Scheduling help or guidance on how to carry out effective Root Cause Analysis, there are organizations that have proven results and help on these and many more topics.
When I look at what’s on offer today and the many offerings I’ve seen over the many years in Maintenance and Reliability I come to the conclusion that the problems haven’t really changed. This then leads me to ask – if these great tools are out there – then why are organizations plagued by the same problems?
The answer seems to be with the organizations and not the quality or amount of training and help available. When people return from training or when the trainer leaves the site – has the organization prepared the ground to plant these seeds of wisdom or are they just going to try and super-impose the new solution on their old problem.
Do they realize that to improve they need to change something and that the change needs to be managed – more often than not it’s the culture of an organization that causes the challenges – can they change that? Join me in this session to discuss ways to make the money and effort spent of training and development more effective – and so help your organization make the improvement it wants
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Don Yates in Episode 15 of this series. Mr. Donald Yates is a senior manufacturing executive with more than 40 years’ experience spearheading the rapid and sustained growth of leading manufacturing organizations. Mr. Yates gained his expertise in lean manufacturing by building effective teams, and formulating strategic reliability plans during his extraordinarily successful career in several leadership roles.
In the quality world, kaizen is a tool for continuous improvement under the umbrella of a Lean philosophy. The quality-tool kaizen is just one layer of a larger, overarching idea that we benefit from small, incremental improvements made consistently.
Kaizen as a tool involves all employees of the company toward continuous improvement. The way kaizen events are done helps to promote the continuous improvement philosophy throughout the business through its effect on culture, time, proof, and teamwork. We talk more about how this all fits together in the podcast.
“What is the next generation of maintenance?” The answer to that question lays squarely within our control. “As technology gives birth to new ways of working, those who are unable to access new technology will fall behind, while those with the resources needed to build and deploy it will enjoy ever greater success. “
AI will augment innate human traits like creativity and sensitivity in ways that will allow us to solve new problems and redefine the future of maintenance. In this session we’ll discuss how we all can take an active role in defining what the next generation of maintenance is, how it’s valued and how it’s done.
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
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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Worthington Assembly’s Chris Denney speaks about the electronic contract manufacturing business.
• How to select an appropriate contract manufacturer
• Evaluating a contract manufacturer’s capabilities
• Mistakes made when selecting a contract manufacturer
• Advantages and disadvantages of selecting a US-based contract manufacturer
Chris may be contacted here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com
Worthington Assembly’s website:
https://www.worthingtonassembly.com
Welcome Shane who is the author of Decoding Mechanical Failures. More about Shane and Steel Image:
Shane is a mechanical engineer who founded Steel Image, whose primary business is analyzing information on broken parts: how it failed, mechanisms of failure, and whether the part was built correctly or not.
They avail all this information to aid those conducting RCAs.
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Carl and Fred discussing methods for selecting reliability recommendations, following the process used to develop effective reliability plans.
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of prioritizing tasks, both in life, and in the field of reliability engineering.
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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Cliff Williams, Principal Advisor of Maintenance and Reliability at People & Processes, back on the show! Ryan and Cliff take a deep dive into the role of Maintenance Supervisors and Managers, and how these positions play a vital role in an organization. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Rick Baldridge in Episode 14 of this series. Rick Baldridge, CMRP, CAMA is the Corporate Reliability Excellence Leader and has 41 years of experience working within Cargill. Experience in plant operations management, project management, information technology, procurement management, reliability excellence and maintenance management.
A Fishbone Diagram is named for its looks because it resembles the bones of a fish drawn on paper. Its less creative names are Cause-and-Effect Diagram and Ishikawa Diagram. It’s popularly known to help with root cause analysis. But, we can also use it to help with goals and to evaluate a potential solution.
Why is it a Supertool? Just creating its headings helps us to better define our question. Writing it out as a graphical organizer helps organize jumbled thoughts. And, when paired with a 5W2H approach and the 5-whys, it can help us dig to the root causes.
I’ve included some abbreviated examples of fishbone diagrams; click the thumbnail for a larger version (notice that my root causes follow the 5-whys). And, listen to the podcast (or read the transcript) to learn more about Fishbones and their construction and uses.
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.
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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/
In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Tom Furnival on the show! Tom is currently the Vice President of Marshall Institute, and holds a ton of experience working with industry professionals and teaching them highly relevant solutions to improve performance. In this episode, Tom shares what he has learned over the years, especially when it comes to leadership. Listen today!
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Welcome James Reyes who is the author of Uptime and many other books, also a principal consultant at Conscious Asset. More about James:
Having a career that spans for 44 years, James has worked in different organizations and industries some of which include reliability on board both at sea and air. The guest began a reliability consulting career in 1995 focusing on the execution of reliability programs.
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