RM 048: A Conversation with a China Supply Chain Expert about Importing from and Exporting to China

A Conversation with a China Supply Chain Expert about Importing from and Exporting to China

Episode 48: A Conversation with David Alexander, a China supply chain expert about Importing from and Exporting to China.

We are all familiar with the pros and cons of importing goods from China. China supply chain expert David Alexander discusses pros and cons of doing business in China. David also discusses the lesser known opportunities of exporting US goods to China and China’s appetite for western brands.

David is the Founder and President of Baysource Global, company which provides management of offshore factories, US sales and distribution of Chinese products as well as distribution of US products in to China.

Information on Baysource Global is available here:
https://baysourceglobal.com

David Alexander may be contacted here:
david.alexander@baysource.net

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220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson and George Williams started Reliability X. Joe Anderson is the COO and George is the CEO. Reliability X is a consulting organization that offers the implementation of holistic reliability for manufacturing sites. They also offer coaching, mentoring and teaching in a variety of mechanisms. They have partnered with the University of Wisconsin. Both of them have a vast amount of experiencing totaling 55 years. Here, they share with us some of their nuggets.

In this episode:

What is Reliability
Why should we sell Reliability yet it is the right thing to do
How do you sell to The Upper Management
How do you sell to the Plant Floor

… and so much more!

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SOR 569 Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives

Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives

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Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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SOR 568 Lessons Learned Working From Home

Lessons Learned Working From Home

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Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.
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The Survivorship Bias Principal

podcast episode with speaker Adam Bahret

In 1942, the US Air Force needed to figure out how to get more bombers home. They were losing them at an atrocious rate. They made a study of where the returning bombers were being hit. It was a great data set. But they should have done better in interpreting that data. Abraham Wald, a mathematician, corrected their assumptions and created the “Survivorship Bias principle.” This principle has changed the way we look at data sets and trends. It is a concept that I apply to field failure data sets regularly—more than once. It has caught evidence of core issues that would have otherwise been missed. [Read more…]

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RRP 114 Are You Leading Your Metrics or Are Your Metrics Leading You?

On this bonus episode, I talk about some examples of misused metrics and I give you ideas to consider when choosing metrics of your own. If you have any examples you’d like to share with me, send me an email to robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

Check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.

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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219-How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

Jeff Shiver works with People and Processes. He is heavily involved with maintenance and reliability. He has made presentations for years. He started out in Procter and Gamble doing controls and engineering. He has also worked with Mars in four different plants and also held cooperate roles. He was a maintenance and production manager. He left in 2006 and started People and Processes.

When it comes to planning and practitioning, he has 25 years of experience. Many people suffer with planning in an organization yet it is the hub of everything. So Jeff tells us more.

Jeff will help us get a look at:

Why do Organizations need to Plan their Work
How Detailed should Job Plans be
How do we know if we are going too deep or not deep at all
How do you deal with a Planner with a strong background in another Trade

… and so much more!

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SOR 567 Are You a Keyboard Jockey?

Are You a Keyboard Jockey?

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Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers. Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.
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SOR 566 An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering

An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering

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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.
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MIM S2:E11 April Johnson

An Interview with April Johnson

In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have April Johnson, Maintenance Manager at Pepsico, on the show!

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Selecting Reliability Engineering Tools

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

The toolbox for reliability engineering work is large. We have tools for risk management, data analysis, failure analysis, team building, and more. We touch on material science at the molecular level and then shift to assessing a vendor’s reliability program when you use which tool is critical to your effectiveness. So, how do you determine which tool to use for a given situation?

Let’s explore a few different situations and step through the decision process to determine which tool to employ. You may need to learn how to use a new tool or set of skills, modify how you use an existing tool, or apply what you already know how to do. [Read more…]

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RRP 113 Reliability & Maintenance with Bob Latino, Sanya Mathura, Cliff Williams, & Andy Gailey

On this week’s episode, I welcome Bob Latino, Sanya Mathura, Cliff Williams, & Andy Gailey. We discuss maintenance and reliability, criticality analysis, and benchmarking.

You can connect with our guests here:

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

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

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

Andy Gailey – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-gailey-13b09691/

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

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

Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/

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

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RM 047: A Conversation with Environmental Sustainability Expert Matthew Chalkley

A Conversation with Environmental Sustainability Expert Matthew Chalkley

Episode 47: A Conversation with Environmental Sustainability Expert Matthew Chalkley

Matthew Chalkley has over 26 years of supply chain experience in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Matthew has held a number of senior operational management positions within, engineering, manufacturing, materials management, procurement, and customer order fulfillment.

Matthew was the Global Program Manager for IBM’s Supply Chain Social & Environmental Management System and the Global Tactical Lead for IBM’s Center of Excellence for Product Environmental Compliance. Matthew currently chairs the Environmental Sustainable Electronics (ESE) Technical Work Group for the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, known as iNEMI.

Matthew has a Post Graduate Diploma focused in Environmental Management from the University of Ulster.

Matthew may be reached here:
chalklem19@gmail.com

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218-OEE Modeling with Brad McCully

OEE Modeling with Brad McCully

We’re delighted to have Brad McCully joining us. He’s a business development executive at Advanced Technology Services and has been a part of the company since its founding in 1985. But, he got involved in the manufacturing field much earlier in his career, working at various levels for Caterpillar.

Brad will help us get a look at: