231 – Process Safety Management with Paul Daoust

We’re proud to have the Scio Asset Management founder and MD, Paul Daoust with us. He has extensive experience in the energy, oil, and gas sectors. Paul’s also on the Board of Directors at PEMAC. His more than 25 years of experience have helped in the development of Process Safety Management Systems. The approach for those was practical and pragmatic. He took it from ScottishPower’s reconsideration of their facility’s management. These were based on Process Safety practices from the North Seas.

Together we’ll take an in-depth look at:

What is Process Safety
Which industries or assets does Process Safety apply to more
Are preventative and predictive programs a part of Process Safety
Is Process Safety related to Process Safety Management (PSM)

… and so much more!

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SOR 591 MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve

MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve

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Kirk and Fred discussing how testing a small sample size of a new product results on a larger margin of error for the larger population.
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SOR 590 The Balance of Good Enough

The Balance of Good Enough

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Kirk and Fred discussing the trade-offs between selling more reliable equipment for different markets, costs, and how reliable can we make a product
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MIM S2:E17 Bryan Sapot

An Interview with Bryan Sapot

In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Bryan Sapot, CEO of SensrTrx, on the show!

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RRP 125 Reliability With Cliff Williams, Sanya Mathura, Bob Latino & Lucas Marino

On this week’s episode, I welcome Cliff Williams, Sanya Mathura, Bob Latino & Lucas Marino. We discuss Root cause analysis, and what our guests are currently working on.

You can connect with our guest here:

Cliff Williams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliff-williams-camp-cmrp-mmp-crl-author-ba77b512/

Sanya Mathura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanya-mathura-mle-362438129/

Bob Latino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-bob-latino-3411097/

Lucas Marino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-marino-pmp/

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230 – Ensuring Effective Remote Training with Chris Christenson

Ensuring Effective Remote Training with Chris Christenson

We’re excited to have Chris Christenson, the director of education at Noria. He’s been there for seven years and has been in the adult learning and education field for about 16 years. That involved building curriculum courses and programs. He also did training in classrooms for adult learners. Chris became a performance coach which helped him focus on individual performance. That’s helped him at Noria with building more courses for adult learning. It’s also enabled them to upgrade their trainers’ skills.

Together we’ll take an in-depth look at:

What remote training is
When to use it
Its challenges over traditional face to face training

… and so much more!

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SOR 589 Ready to Use Field Data

Ready to Use Field Data

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Adam and Fred discussing the best methods for integrating field data into established reliability programs.
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SOR 588 Customer Satisfaction and Reliability Perception

Customer Satisfaction and Reliability Perception

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Adam and Fred discussing how customer satisfaction with a product affects their perception about reliability performance.
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RRP 124 Leadership & Maintenance with Cliff Williams

On this week’s episode, I welcome Cliff Williams. We discuss leadership, maintenance, and Cliff’s long career.

You can connect with our guest here:

Cliff Williams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliff-williams-camp-cmrp-mmp-crl-author-ba77b512/

Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/

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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

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229 – Building Support for FMEA with Fred Schenkelberg

Building Support for FMEA with Fred Schenkelberg

We’re glad to have Fred Schenkelberg from the Accendo Reliability website joining us. He hosts the Speaking of Reliability podcast and even does reliability webinars. Fred also has articles and helps create online courses on Accendo. He’s well versed in the product development space of reliability engineering. But among the tools used, he’ll give us an in-depth look into gaining support for FMEAs.

Fred will give us insight on:

Are organizations willing to give up their resources?
What can you do to gain support for FMEAs?
Top points for building support for FMEAs

… and so much more!

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SOR 587 Use Case 7 and HALT

Use Case 7 and HALT

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Adam and Fred discussing how the philosophy of HALT and Use Case 7 share some common ground.
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SOR 586 Understand Perception Issues

Understand Perception Issues

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Philip and Fred discussing the need to understand our perception or frame of reference bias.
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MIM S2:E16 Gerard Wood

An Interview with Gerard Wood

In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Gerard Wood, Managing Director at Bluefield Asset Management, and Director of Relialytics, on the show!

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DTK Ray Harkins Business Leader

Ray Harkins Business Leader

Tim interviews Ray about professional development, which is the focus of The Manufacturing Academy.

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Reliability Analysis … now what? Part 2

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

Last month’s webinar was ‘Reliability Analysis … now what?’ And we showed how to slightly ‘tweak’ all those textbook reliability analyses into USEFUL ACTIVITIES. What good is a 90 % confidence bound on reliability? What does this mean for profit? Or fleet size? Or mission success? We solved this problem by identifying the ‘likely’ ways we can explain our data. In fact – there is a whole bunch of statistics on creating the ‘likelihood’ of an explanation of what we see. We use this ‘likelihood’ in most statistical applications – including those USEFUL ACTIVITIES we discussed above. [Read more…]