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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have Florian Ferrier, Co-Founder and Director of msapp, on the show! Ryan and Florian discuss the advancement of information sharing, explore industrial maintenance as a service, and so much more. Listen today!
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Chris and Fred discuss the different words we often use (and misuse) in reliability engineering. ‘Reliability’ has been used for hundreds of years to describe different concepts of ruggedness, robustness, strength, timeliness, trustworthiness and so on. But – reliability has a specific definition within reliability engineering. There are plenty of other examples of how words we use in reliability engineering can have multiple meanings – even when we think they don’t!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Randy Reid in Episode 6 of this series. Randy specializes in maintenance organization, training and reliability. He believes in doing the job the right way the first time and equipping maintenance with the knowledge to understand the equipment or processes as a Maintenance Manager/Reliability Engineer at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama.
In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have Sarah Lukens, Data Scientist at GE Digital, on the show! Sarah shares his vast knowledge on data quality and maintenance data, as well as her journey and experience in this space. Listen today!
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Episode 70:
My guest today is AMIT DROR
Co-Founder of Nano Dimension Ltd. and Customer Success Officer. Amit served as Nano Dimension’s Chief Executive Officer from 2014 to 2019.
Nano Dimension has produced a product which, arguably can be best described as a true disruptive force within the electronic assembly space.
We’re all experienced with inkjet printers. Ink jet nozzles travel from left to right back and forth over a sheet of paper. When the printing process has been completed, out shoots a sheet of paper with text or images deposited on the paper’s surface. Now, imagine a different type of printer. Instead of four-color ink cartridges there are two basic inks, one a dielectric ink and the other a silver-based conductive ink. The print heads travel back and forth and, when the printing process is finished, out pops a multi-layer circuit board complete with vias, through-holes, ground planes, and conductive traces, and markings, ready for component placement and reflow. Need another board, just press print. This technology gives new meaning to “printed circuit board”.
Amit Dror
Co-Founder of Nano Dimension Ltd. and Customer Success Officer
Nano Dimension
nano-di.com
NANO DIMENSION USA INC.
13798 NW 4th Street, Suite 315
Sunrise, FL 33325, United States
NANO DIMENSION (ISRAEL)
2 Ilan Ramon St.
Ness-Ziona Science Park
Ness Ziona 7403635, Israel
NANO DIMENSION (HK) LTD.
Unit 202. 2/F, Lakeside 2, Phase Two,
Hong Kong Science Park, Pak Shek Kok,
New Territories, Hong Kong
If we’re not careful with or ignore failure modes, we can choose the wrong reliability model or statistical distribution. If our product performance is close to the required limits and/or we need a very accurate model, this could be a big problem.
We talk about the importance of failure modes and step-through a tensile-test example to explore these other topics:
We all know what the ‘root cause’ is … right? It is the ‘thing’ that caused something bad to happen. The problem is the definition of ‘root cause’ has been abused, misconstrued, re-written, misinterpreted, and all sorts of other things that erode from what it is supposed to be. And by that, I mean it has to be something that we can do something about (and make better). [Read more…]
Are you credible? Do you have the buy in from your teams? Do you know how to spot a fraud? What can you do to be more credible?
We discuss all these things in this episode! Dean Jarvis has been in the maintenance industry in just about every role possible, he has the experience, he has the education, and he is most certainly credible. But what does that mean? Tune in to find out more.
Find Dean on linkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-jarvis-maintenance-assets/
AssetOn – https://www.asseton.com.au/
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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Welcome Dane Boers who is the founder of Modeler. Our topic will be asset modelling.
More about Dane:
Dane started his career in mining then moved to consultancy before starting Modeler. The company was started to make reliability more efficient and automated because of the repetitive work he had observed.
In this episode we covered:
Chris and Fred discuss accelerated testing – and how we come up with acceleration factors. Accelerated testing is great! It allows us to compress an entire lifecycle into a short test duration for us to quickly understand the reliability characteristics of our system … ONLY if we know what we are doing. Keen to learn more?
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Carl and Fred discussing the essence of team leadership. Reliability engineers need to add effective team leadership to their core set of skills.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Marc Zimmerman in Episode 5 of this series. Marc specializes in the oversight and management of field operations, managing budgets and schedules on both renovations and new construction on public school projects. His broad background and experience across the different trades has provided him with the knowledge and understanding of all the trade interactions and needs, which proves valuable for prioritizing and scheduling work as the Sr. Field Leader at CAMPUS Construction Management Group, Inc.
In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have Dan Anderson, Manager at Life Cycle Engineering and member of the SMRP Board of Directors, on the show! Ryan and Dan discuss change management practices, and how organizations can shift their culture to proactive maintenance. Listen today!
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A danger of using slide decks for technical design reviews is loss of important technical information. In order to summarize something in a slide or slide deck, the presenter thins-out information without its raw data and divorces it from the plots, graphs, and other technical analyses.
Slide decks are useful to the presenter to pull together a meeting. Slide decks are terrible for the reviewers who need to review technical information and make decisions from it.
In this episode, I review some alternatives:
Over the past decade, facility equipment reliability has been elevated from an often vague ideal to a mission-critical goal with benefits that outweigh both cost and complexity. As a result, well-run organizations now consider reliability to be an important element of their strategic and tactical plans and initiatives. This new reality impacts nearly every function, from procurement to maintenance, repair, and operations inventory management.
Over the same period, savvy plant management has also embraced the philosophy that maximum reliability requires more than well-functioning equipment. What other correlated activities must organizations also engage in?
In this week’s episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Blair Fraser welcomes Dan Moss, VP Operations at Performance Consulting Associates otherwise known as PCA to talk about the Journey to Reliability: The Roadmap for Success.
You can connect with PCA here:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pcaconsulting/
Email Dan here: moss@pcaconsulting.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/