QDD 016 About Visual Quality Standards

About Visual Quality Standards

“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).

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MD 173 Finding a Job in Maintenance & Reliability With Carl Kaufman, Mike Persson, & Allyson Hawley

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/

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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272 – Operator Care: A Thought Out Approach with Cliff Williams

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:

What is operator care?
Where should we use operator care and autonomous maintenance?
What prerequisites are often needed to implement operator care?

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SOR 675 A Better Way to do Design Reviews

A Better Way to do Design Reviews

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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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SOR 674 Safety and Reliability

Safety and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing the tools of safety and reliability engineering, and how these tools overlap.
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MD 172 Leadership, Psychological Safety & Mental Health with Lucas Marino & Rob Kalwarowsky

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.

If you want a psychological safety assessment for your organization or your team, reach out to Rob at rob@highperformancenarrative.com

Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/

Connect with Lucas Marino on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-marino-deng/

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Check out highperformancenarrative.com

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.

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TMC S3:E15 Aaron Schultz

Aaron Schultz

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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TLC 011 Leadership Connection Interview with Cliff Williams

Leadership Connection Interview Cliff Williams

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.

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QDD 015 Using the Pareto Principle and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Using the Pareto Principle and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

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.

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RM 072: A Conversation About Thermal Profiling with ECD’s Mark Waterman

A Conversation About Thermal Profiling with ECD’s Mark Waterman

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

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271 – Developing Operational Standards with George Williams and Joe Anderson

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:

What are operational standards?
Why would we need operational standards?
Who develops standards?

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MD 171 State of Work with Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky

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

Follow The Leadership Launchpad Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-leadership-launchpad-project

Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/

Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/

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SOR 673 Safety – Binary or Variable

Safety – Binary or Variable

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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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SOR 672 Make or Check Reliability

Make or Check Reliability

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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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Fault Tolerance

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

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…]