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In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Dane Boers, founder of Modla, on the show! Ryan and Dane explore the topic of advanced analytical techniques and the future of analytics in preventive maintenance. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader George Mahoney in Episode 24 of this series. George Mahoney is currently acting as the Program Manager and Process Optimization Lead for the Source to Settle Organization at Merck.
Defining tolerances for our quality characteristics is sometimes not an easy task. If we set tight tolerances, it could be costly to make with a lot of rejects and rework in the future. If we’re too sloppy with our tolerances, then it can affect the functionality of our product, leading to unhappy customers, and also possible rework and scrap. There’s economics involved in setting-up tolerances.
Genichi Taguchi related his measure of quality (variation from the target spec) with economics, called the Taguchi Loss Function. It’s used to calculate the cost (in money) of a certain deviation from a target value. It assumes that the farther our quality characteristic is from our target value, the more costly it is to us.
We talk about how we can use the Taguchi Loss Functions as a way for us to set tolerances for our designs. Scroll lower to get an interactive tool and the equations.
Once we have made something really reliable (or really available) … then comes the part where we have to work out how many of them we need (if they make up a fleet) or how many spare parts we need to keep them running. That is where discrete distributions are really helpful. They assign probabilities to ‘discrete’ random variables. These are random variables that can only have certain specified values. Like whole numbers. For example … the number of failures you expect to see in a mission. Or the number of available systems out of a given fleet size. If this sounds like something that could help you out … see you for this webinar!
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When do you do RCAs? Is it one off? Have you thought about how RCA can be a system?
This week we welcome Bob Latino back to the show to talk all about RCA and his new book!
Episode Shout Outs:
Bob Latino – https://www.linkedin.com/in/boblatino/
Bob’s new book – https://www.routledge.com/Lubrication-Degradation-Getting-into-the-Root-Causes/Mathura-Latino/p/book/9781032171579
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, 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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My guests Cheryl Tulkoff and Greg Caswell discuss their new book “DESIGN FOR EXCELLENCE IN ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING” (published by Wiley and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Wiley).
Cheryl Tulkoff may be reached here:
ctulkoff@gmail.com
Greg Caswell may be reached here:
greg.caswell@ansys.com
It is my pleasure to welcome Andrew Keller to the podcast. He is the Managing Director for Rams Men Taught in Germany.
I’ve trained as a materials engineer, having spent approximately 20 years working in different aspects of reliability engineering from failure analysis to risk-based inspection, to design. He has experience in all aspects of reliability engineering. He is now self-employed, helping and targeting process plant engineers.
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Chris and Fred discuss … MTBFs! Fred’s favorite! We (should) know that Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is not reliability. So what do we do if we somehow need to get reliability from nothing but the MTBF.
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Paul Dufresne has been president and CEO of Reliability Playbook since 2017, following 31 years of experience in maintenance and reliability roles in the U.S. Military and at Georgia Pacific, Trico Corporation and Koch Industries. After the military, he spent the next several years in the corporate world designing and implementing reliability and maintenance programs focusing on industry best practices and achieving superior results while serving in a variety of roles in maintenance management and reliability leadership. In 2013, he received the Senior VP Award for Reliability from GP.
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Chris and Fred discuss what the purpose of a ‘Body of Knowledge’ or BOK is? … or what is a BOK? … especially when it comes to reliability?
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews CEO Jason Tranter in Episode 23 of this series. Jason Tranter is the founder and CEO of Mobius Institute.
When we’ve identified a risk to our design or user process – and that risk can pose a potential harm – how many controls do we need to add?
We discuss prevention vs. detection controls, ALARP, as low as possible, and some scenarios where we could (and maybe couldn’t) justify a risk as acceptable without adding additional controls.
In this week’s episode a replay in which Blair welcomes Sunil Vedula and Graham Kawulka of NanoPrecise Corp, and Dean Stephens of Benchmark Reliability Services to talk about the value of precision and confidence when it comes to wireless vibration condition monitoring. NanoPrecise hardware and software are challenging the value of both precision and confidence in one solution.
You can connect with our Guest here:
Sunil Vedula –linkedin.com/in/sunil-vedula-844a0917
Graham Kawulka –linkedin.com/in/graham-kawulka-0b851122
Dean Stephens –linkedin.com/in/dean-stephens-mmp-cmrp-crl-a7144813
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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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
It’s my pleasure to welcome back Peter Horsburgh. He is the author of the ‘Five Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers.’ He has a long history within reliability engineering. He essentially started in manufacturing, then moved to mining, then to power generation, and to aluminum smelting.
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