Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Chris and Fred ask each other ‘what makes a good design review?’ This is a great question. Reliability engineering can help! (… click here to read an article about this). If you want to learn more – listen to this podcast!
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Carl and Fred discussing the tools of safety and reliability engineering, and how these tools overlap.
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On this bonus episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Rob Kalwarowsky joins Lucas Marino on an EAST Partnership LinkedIn Live. We discuss leadership, psychological safety & mental health.
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DISCLAIMER: We want to let you know this episode covers some sensitive subjects such as mental health and depression. If you’re going through a difficult time right now, or if you know someone struggling with depression, we hope this episode will help you navigate these tough conversations. If you’re ever experiencing suicidal thoughts, please reach out to your support system or call 1-800-273-8255 where you’ll be connected with a specialist from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Aaron Schultz on the show! Aaron holds over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, and has gained a ton of valuable insight on how to work with organizations to improve their reliability culture. In this episode, Aaron shares with Ryan these insights and so much more! Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Cliff Williams in Episode 11 of this series. Cliff has had a successful career in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management spanning four decades and industries from Steel, Pulp and Paper and food and beverage giants Coca Cola and Kraft. He has recently retired as the Corporate Maintenance and Reliability manager for a Canadian based chemical manufacturer where he guided the performance at 10 facilities.
The likeness of the Pareto Principle can be compared to Murphy’s Law and the Peter Principle: it’s a curious phenomenon. So, how did it make its way into quality? If using it to make decisions, there are some common pitfalls which can lead to delays in fixing a problem or even misdirect our efforts. So, what is it, and how can we use it for design?
Get to know the Pareto Chart. If it’s built and applied properly, it can help us prioritize: root cause analysis, new design features based on user input, or to help us tackle a problem that just seems too big to even start (just to name a few examples).
We review the Pareto Principle, what a Pareto Chart is, what we need to consider when building one, and how we need to be careful when interpreting its results.
ECD’s Mark Waterman discusses thermal profiling best practices.
• Common mistakes made when using profilers
• In-use best practices
• Common applications
Mark may be reached here:
mailto:mwaterman@ecd.com
ECD’s Website:
https://www.ecd.com
Welcome Joe Anderson and George Williams back to the podcast. They are the founders of ReliabilityX and are consultants as well as trainers.
Briefly about them and Reliability X:
Reliability X covers all aspects of reliability; both operational and maintenance, coaching and currently creating online classes.
Joe Anderson has been in the pharma and food industries for 25 years before moving to consultancy.
George Williams has a background in pharma and medical devices rising from a technician over the years to a global reliability manager.
In this episode we covered:
On this episode, Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky talk about The Great Resignation, the state of work and why Leadership 2.0 is the only path forward.
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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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of safety. Specifically whether an item or device can be considered safe or not safe (binary), or whether there are degrees of safety (variable).
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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘making’ and ‘checking’ reliability. And there is a difference. This podcast follows on from Chris’s article about a US Department of Defense (DoD) quick reference guide on a ‘Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Body of Knowledge.’ The problem with this document was it was all about ‘checking’ reliability – and not enough ‘making’ reliability.
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There comes a time in everyone’s reliability ‘journey’ when it is either too hard or too expensive to keep perfecting your product, system, or service. Steel can only be ‘so’ pure. Clearances can only be ‘so’ accurate. Surfaces can only be ‘so’ smooth. And software can only be ‘so’ perfect. In fact, it might turn out to be better and cheaper to have two ‘average’ components, with one acting as a backup to the other. The ‘premium’ component might be too expensive or otherwise not as reliable as the backup system. Welcome to fault tolerance! This is where we design products, systems, or services to be able to handle faults, imperfections, deviations, errors, and lots of other things. [Read more…]
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 Jason Hartman in Episode 10 of this series. Jason has held many roles in leadership and currently is a top leader, leading teams in a diverse number of plant operations roles including production management, project management, facility leadership, maintenance management, reliability leadership, and manufacturing engineering.
I’m a fan of cross-functional teams. My main reason is that the different perspectives that each person brings from their respective areas of the business helps create a more complete vision of product and performance risk. Part of quality (and design!) means assessing and managing risk, and I’ve seen time and again the power of bringing people together: better understanding, greater alignment, and improved designs (to name just a few).
Part of being an effective team member is knowing what the other teammates are responsible for doing. It’s important because we need to know who to ask or interface with at certain points in our design process.
This podcast is about Who’s Who of your Quality Team. A Quality Engineer or Reliability Engineer may be part of a cross-functional team for a project. A Supplier Quality Professional, Calibration Technician, Quality Technician, and Quality Inspector may not be, but they are performing functions and duties that have an effect on the success of a product design. The podcast gets into who does what in these Quality roles, and why designers should involve them during the design process.