Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Digital transformation isn’t just another buzzword. It’s an evolving subject that continually impacts the maintenance and reliability industries. For this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have special guest, Luke Smaul, an experienced technology and business leader in the IT and manufacturing world, to share his expertise on this subject! Listen today! [Read more…]
Kirk and Fred discussing how we continue to evolve our reliability expectations as technology becomes more robust and reliable.
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You’re nearing the end of your project, getting cross-functional approval on your design, when your QE or RE friend comes running with a big, red STOP button! Let’s avoid that!
Quality and Reliability are INPUTS into the design process, much earlier than by the time we have a prototype in-hand (even at the black-box, input-output phase). Getting the QEs and REs involved early will help your design be a success with suppliers, manufacturers, and your cross-functional team.
In this episode, we are switching directions and instead of looking at the technology, we focus on people and processes to help bring these technologies in and most importantly, get the desired value from them.
In this week’s episode on the Technology Innovation series of Maintenance Disrupted, I talk with George Williams at ReliabiltyX to get his thoughts and recommendation as a reliability practitioner and now an advisor and consultant on what he has seen work and not work when companies bring in new technologies. From developing the initial business case mapped to the company objective to the behavior changes needed, George provides sound advice to anyone considering bring new technology to their maintenance and reliability initiatives.
Connect with our Guest Here:
George Williams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgewilliamscmrp/
ReliabilityX – https://www.linkedin.com/company/reliabilityx/
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
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Welcome Bill to the Podcast.
He has held different talks and training sessions around leadership, change management, PMs and many others.
Today, we’re tackling important points such as:
… and so much more!
Chris and Fred discuss (essentially) how many ‘things’ you need to see to know enough about those ‘things.’ We see this conundrum across all sorts of fields of study. How many kangaroos do I need to capture and weigh to get a good understanding of the entire population’s typical weight? Delete kangaroo and insert whatever thing matters to you.
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Chris and Fred discuss accelerated testing. Accelerated testing is great for getting lots of information in a short period of time. You can compress a lot of ‘real-time’ life into a really small amount of testing. But how do you do it right? You need to understand the underlying physics of failure to work out how the compression of time works.
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Have you ever designed a product that works but that customers just don’t want to use?
We’ve put a product to market only to find that the users just don’t want to use it. They’re buying it, so there’s perceived value in it. It’s functional, it does what we say it will do, it really works! But they’re not repeat buyers and not making good recommendations to others (it’s sort of making the company look bad).
What went wrong? In some cases, there’s warning signs to watch for during your design development. And, if looking to the design process for an answer, there’s some tools and strategies to help prevent that from happening before product launch, or to help as a starting point when you plan for your version 2.0.
This podcast will review the strategies and pitfalls and how to avoid them. [Read more…]
Everyone knows why we do reliability, and reliability things like FMEAs. Customer experience. Organization reputation. Reduced warranty claims 10 years from now. But these are boring reasons that really don’t motivate me to take FMEAs seriously now. Why should I invest so much time into an activity that benefits the ‘company’ or the ‘customer’ in the future but won’t make an immediate difference when my boss will give me a ‘gold star’ on my next performance appraisal? Right? Wrong! [Read more…]
Every organization is trying to put together better and better work instructions. What is the best way to accomplish this? Who do you engage? Who should be doing the analysis?
In this week’s episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Steven Dobie talks with Lucas Marino from East Partnership about maintenance task analysis. As usual, the topic was strayed from and Steve & Lucas started discussing KPIs, worker engagement, and much much more.
Connect with our Guest Here:
Lucas Marino – https://www.eastpartnership.org/
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/
Dr. Ron Lasky (Professor at Dartmouth College) and three of his students talk about the papers they wrote which were presented at SMTA’s Pan Pacific Microelectronics Symposium in Hawaii in 2020 as well as a new paper to be presented at the same conference in 2022.
Let’s welcome Zachary Yost who is an integration lead at CNS. Our main topic will be the removal of wastage in the maintenance work process.
Zachary will give us insight on:
… and so much more!
Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘deterministic’ versus ‘probabilistic’ … and what that means for reliability engineering. Know what these words mean and want to learn more? Don’t know what these words mean and want to understand how they could help reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast.
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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about ‘hunting’ reliability training. And we do mean ‘hunt.’
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We’re back, and excited to announce our rebrand as “The Maintenance Community Podcast”! We’re kicking off our newest season with Ricky Smith, Expert in Residence at UpKeep. In this episode, Ricky and Ryan discuss how to properly train new maintenance technicians, and how managers can set them up for success. [Read more…]