Joe Adam
In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Joe Adam, Manager of Engineering and Maintenance at Roche, on the show!
MIM S2:E29 Joe Adam
MD 147 Fiix and Nanoprecise Unite
MD 147 Fiix and Nanoprecise Unite
The importance of partnerships not only from a vendor to a customer but from vendor to vendor to create a holistic approach to maintenance and reliability is what is driving industry 4.0. Solution providers are now being pushed from customers to be open, to be able to connect their solutions with others to provide better asset performance management.
This week we welcome Graham Kawulka from Nanoprecise and Sandy D’Souza from Fiix software to the show. Through a recent partnership, Fixx and Nanoprecise have made it easier than ever for organizations to monitor the health of equipment in real-time, detect anomalous behavior, automatically trigger maintenance activities, and generate in-depth reports on asset performance and condition.
This podcast speaks to the shift of open by design ecosystem of solution providers coming together to solve a greater problem in our facilities.
Connect with our Guest Here:
Graham Kawulka – https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-kawulka-0b851122/
Sandy D’Souza – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyd3/
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/
RM 063: A Conversation with and a Presentation by Reliability Expert Dock Brown
A Conversation with and a Presentation by Reliability Expert Dock Brown
Welcome to episode 63 of the Reliability Matters Podcast. Today, I’ll be speaking with Dock Brown.
Dock Brown brings his more than 30 years of electronics reliability experience to clients of Ansys. Prior to joining Ansys, he spent 20 years at Medtronic where he most recently concentrated on cross business unit implementation of reliability initiatives for Class III medical devices. He was also responsible for supplier assessment and approval, on-going supplier audits, failure analysis, corrective actions, MRB, sampling, and ultimately full accountability for quality and reliability of commercial off-the-shelf and custom parts and assemblies from a worldwide supplier base. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brown also spent time at Sundstrand Data Control where he led the implementation of Boeing’s Advanced Quality System program and with Olin Aerospace.
As a volunteer, he has been involved with ASQ, IEEE, IPC, and SMTA. He was the keynote speaker at the SMTA Cleaning Conference and won the best paper award at the SMTA Microelectronics Conference. He has taught on the subjects of design for reliability, tin whiskers, statistics, design of experiments, and contributed to standards development.
Today’s episode is a little different than others. Dock will be sharing a very interesting presentation on the subject of reliability. If you’re listening to the audio-only version of this episode, you may want to view the video version so you can see Dock’s slide-deck. The video version of this episode, and several others are available on the Reliability Matters YouTube channel.
Dock Brown may be reached here:
dock.brown@ansys.com
252 – How to Avoid Becoming a Prisoner of Your Own Process with Brandon Weil
How to Avoid Becoming a Prisoner of Your Own Process with Brandon Weil
We’re excited to be joined by Brandon Weil, the operations director at Eruditio. He was also the chair at the 2020 SMRP conference. Brandon will be giving us an in-depth look into becoming a prisoner of your process.
Key highlights from this episode are:
- What does the phrase mean?
- What could cause you to get in too deep?
- How do you evolve to stop or not become a prisoner of your process?
SOR 633 Assessing Reliability Courses
Assessing Reliability Courses
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss what you need to think about when selecting your next reliability engineering course. What course do you need to do to become a better engineer (and more valuable to your organization)?
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SOR 632 Statistics and Reliability
Statistics and Reliability
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss what came first … reliability or statistics? Reliability of course! There are plenty of organizations that focus on baking reliability into designs without the need for statistics. But statistics are a part of reliability engineering. So what is the relationship between the two? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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MD 146 Asset Life-Cycle with Cliff Williams
MD 146 Asset Life-Cycle with Cliff Williams
Are you managing your assets life-cycle? Do you even know what your assets life-cycle is?
In this week’s episode of Over the Line, a Maintenance Disrupted Podcast series, we welcome Cliff Williams to the show to talk about asset life-cycles. We do veer off topic (as usual) and discuss a wide range of topics from empowerment, to selling value.
Connecting with Cliff Williams Here:
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
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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/
251 – How to Make a Good Request with Fred Schenkelberg
How to Make a Good Request with Fred Schenkelberg
We’re glad to have Fred Schenkelberg back to help us understand how to make a complete request. A lot of times, emails circulate through the organization requesting tasks to get completed. However, they don’t define the:
- Who
- When
- How
Fred will give us insight on:
- Elements of a Complete Request
- Do the five elements help ensure a significant change in making requests
… and so much more!
SOR 631 What to Do to Avoid Outdated Methods
What to Do to Avoid Outdated Methods
Abstract
This is part two of a discussion Kirk and Fred have over a recent ASQ newsletter with CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test sample questions at the end.
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MIM S2:E28 Rob Kalwarowsky and Ricky Smith
Rob Kalwarowsky and Ricky Smith
In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have two familiar faces back on the show, Rob Kalwarowsky and Ricky Smith!
SOR 630 Why Do We Use Outdated Methods
Why Do We Use Outdated Methods
Abstract
This is the first part of two podcast that Kirk and Fred have on a recent ASQ Newsletter with sample CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test questions at the end and how outdated and for Kirk how it is perpetuating irrelevant and misleading reliability paradigms
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Reliability Making Money 2 — Case Study of just looking at a Weibull plot
Reliability Making Money — Case Study of just looking at a Weibull plot
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Reliability engineers LOVE Weibull plots. They often make sense out of a bunch of seemingly random points. Or at least we feel like they make sense. Anything that turns a bunch of random points into a straight line is automatically making sense … right? Wrong. It is up to us as reliability engineers to look at Weibull plots and work out what is going on. [Read more…]
MD 145 Rethink How You Collect Your Asset Data
MD 145 Rethink How You Collect Your Asset Data
The importance of knowing what equipment we have where is the foundation of all of our reliability improvement initiatives, but do we truly know what we have? For most of us, the answer is no, we have an idea but not the fine details. Typically triggered on an event like a company merger or new capital projects, we send our highly skilled workers into the field to start collecting data, a lot of it. And this has been accepted as the way it is.
There has to be a better way, and income Imagine recognition, AI, and proven practices and applications to increase the accuracy of the data and significantly reduce the amount of effort to collect and make sense of this data. I promise you, if you ever have to collect asset data again, you will want to listen to this podcast with Stephen Crampton of Utopia.
Connecting with our Guest Here:
Stephen Crampton – https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencrampton/
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/
Sponsorships: off for this episode
RM 062: A Conversation with Cogiscan’s Co-Founder François Monette
A Conversation with Cogiscan’s Co-Founder François Monette
Welcome to the Reliability Matters Podcast. This is episode number 62. By now, most of us have heard of Industry 4.0, or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), or Smart Factory, or Factory of the Future. The key all of these acronyms is Connectivity, Data Management, Material and Process Control, Traceability, and Analytics. It’s not as simple as collecting data. The data much be understood, useful, and contextual.
My guest today is François Monette, is the co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Cogiscan, a company specializing in Track Trace Control products for the electronics industry.
François co-founded Cogiscan in 1999 with two other partners in Canada. François earned his mechanical engineering degree from McGill University in Montreal. François started his career at IBM, and worked at contract manufacturers, C-Mac and Solectron, before joining Universal Instruments.
François Monette may be contacted here:
fmonette@cogiscan.com
250 – Decoding Mechanical Failures with Shane Turcott
Decoding Mechanical Failures with Shane Turcott
We’re glad to have Shane Turcott to helps us understand more about decoding mechanical failures. He’s a principal metallurgist from Steel Image and is heavily involved in a lot of professional societies. Shane’s previously worked at a steel mill, a turbine company, and a failure analysis lab specializing in failure analysis. Steel Image was established in 2009 and deals with failure analysis, with a specialty in supporting reliability efforts in the refining industry, mining, energy, and heavy industries like automotive and manufacturing.
Today, we’re tackling important points such as:
- What is Fractography
- How to study failed components
- Difference between a Ductile and Brittle fracture
- How to become successful with Decoding Mechanical Failures
… and so much more!