MD 198 Back to Basics – Missing Fundamentals With Akshay Athalye

In this episode we chat with new podcaster Akshay to talk about some of the missing fundamentals in industry. Join us for this fun conversation where we scratch the surface of KPIs, RCM, FMECA, and a variety of other topics!

Episode Shout Outs:

Akshay Athalye – https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay-athalye-cmrp-63555ba3/

Reliability it Matters! – https://fred-schenkelberg-project.prev01.rmkr.net/series/rim/

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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MM S4:E011 Community Question Round-Up No.7 with Ramesh Gulati

Community Question Round-Up No.7 with Ramesh Gulati

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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QDD 042 Mistake-Proofing – The Poka-Yoke of Usability

Mistake-Proofing – The Poka-Yoke of Usability

How do we go about mistake-proofing our product design? As we’re looking at our user process, we can use a quality method that’s well-used in manufacturing production: poka-yoke (mistake-proof).

Download the guidelines and checklist, and then follow-along with the podcast.

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RiM 03: Statistics for Reliability Engineers

Statistics for Reliability Engineers

In this episode, we speak with Luke De Jager about Statistics and how much of it is necessary for Reliability Engineers. Understanding of Statistics remains an important aspect of any Reliability Engineers job. We talk about different distributions, why not use MTBF, and what is required to perform a good data analysis.

If you want to get in touch with Luke, you can contact him via LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/luke-de-jager-2461b473)

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299 – Ensuring Transformer Reliability with Howard Penrose

Ensuring Transformer Reliability with Howard Penrose

It is my pleasure to welcome Howard Penrose back to the podcast.

In this episode we covered:

Why are electrical reliability or electrical assets neglected?
What are the major types of transformers?
If we detect a high level of moisture in the oil, do we change the oil or is it a little more complicated than that?

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SOR 727 When to Stop Troubleshooting

When to Stop Troubleshooting

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of when to end efforts in troubleshooting a failure.
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PR S3:E1 Paul Daoust, Founder of Scio Asset Management

Paul Daoust, Founder of Scio Asset Management

Paul Daoust thinks for a living with over 25 years of international experience in asset management and operational excellence in the energy sector as a team leader and lead practitioner in a corporate center, industrial site and remote work locations.

As the founder of Scio Asset Management, Paul is declaring war on mediocrity and providing supportive leadership to progressive operational leaders to make more, better decisions to stop value leakage in their organizations through learning, coaching, advising services and management platform solutions.

Paul is a leading international advocate for asset management practices for industrial and infrastructure asset-owning organizations.

Specializing in asset management leadership, asset strategy & planning, operational risk management, asset performance management, asset investment planning, maintenance and reliability management, competency management, and organizational change management.

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SOR 726 Statistics, Mechanisms, Facilitation

Statistics, Mechanisms, Facilitation

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Chris and Fred discuss how statistics, mechanisms, and other technical words that come from ‘reliability engineering’ in contrast to softer terms like ‘facilitation.’ This comes from discussions Chris has had during his Statistical Process Control (SPC) course that he has run previously. So what is the big deal about these words? Well … you can know everything there is to know about statistics and failure mechanisms – but if you can’t make things better then it is all for nothing!
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WIM S1:E4 Redefining the Maintenance and Reliability Industry with Christine Witt

Redefining the Maintenance and Reliability Industry with Christine Witt

In this episode of the Women in Maintenance Podcast, we have the Director of Product and Services at SEAM group, Christine Witte, on the show! Listen now to learn more about introducing maintenance and reliability in early education, how early exposure and awareness will redefine the female talent in the industry, and her advice to future generations of female leaders. [Read more…]

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MD 197 6 Myths about Machine Learning that M&R Professionals Must Overcome with Blair Fraser

For many asset-intensive businesses, conversations about adopting maintenance and reliability-focused AI or Machine Learning solutions are infused with widespread myths, illogical barriers, and a general sense of fear. You have likely overheard a conversation on the topic that ended with: “We aren’t ready for that.”

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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MM S4:E10 Lucas Marino

Lucas Marino

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Lucas Marino, who wears many hats, one of them being the Life Cycle Engineer at Amentum! Lucas and Ryan talk about America’s Port — why they are struggling to keep up, who is profiting from this crisis, who is hurting from it, and who is to blame. Listen today! [Read more…]

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RM 088: A Conversation about Electric Vehicles with Indium’s Brian O’Leary

A Conversation about Electric Vehicles with Indium’s Brian O’Leary

One of my favorite subjects is the electrification of automobiles, not just electric cars, which are with us now, but completely autonomous vehicles. When I was a kid in the 1960’s, we were promised flying cars by the year 2000. While that goal was not met, the real prospect of autonomous vehicles in our lifetime is extremely exciting, terrifying, and realistic.

Brian and I discuss the future of the automobile industry and what’s required for the electronics industry and the world.

Brian may be reached here:
Brian O’Leary
Global Accounts Manager, Global Head e-Mobility & Infrastructure
Indium
Email: boleary@indium.com
Website: https://www.indium.com

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CT E04: The Power of Small Multiples and a Progressive Search to Solve Tough Problems with John Allen

In this episode, John Allen of the New Science of Fixing Things and I talk about a powerful deterministic approach to diagnosing and solving tough problems to improve product quality, reliability and performance. John, who is also one of the original founders of Shainin, LLC, walks us through the approach that he and his group have developed, thanks to which teams are able to solve tough problems in very little time.

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QDD 041 Getting Comfortable with using Reliability Results

Getting Comfortable with using Reliability Results

We want to engage a reliability engineer in an analysis for our product design. They can help us produce some great information from which we can make decisions. You might be feeling uncomfortable about our team making a design decision based on those results. You don’t quite understand how the reliability engineer came up with the answer. You want to know where that information comes from so you can gauge the level of project risk of our decision.

We peel-back the curtain on reliability engineering methods. We explore reliability engineering’s roots and development, from the 1950’s through today, to better understand the results of an analysis. Having a general understanding of reliability methods can help us get comfortable with using the results.

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RiM 02: Good to Great Lubrication Practices

Good to Great Lubrication Practices

In this episode, I speak with Shane Scriven about Lubrication and some best practices that an organization can implement. We also discuss the relationship between Lubrication Management and Asset management standards as a way to maximize benefits and what we can do to increase the competency of our workforce.

To check out more on ISO550001 standard: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/knowledge/what-is-asset-management.html

If you have any questions on Lubrication or want to have a chat on Reliability get in touch with Shane here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-scriven/

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