Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Jim Vantyghem, CMMS Senior Support Manager at Gentek Building Products, on the show! Jim has a huge passion for understanding the human side of maintenance — solving common frustrations and issues that maintenance personnel face, identifying underlying people issues within a maintenance organization, and more. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader George Galvin in Episode 20 of this series. George is a chemical engineer that spent the first half of his career the commodity chemical manufacturing and technology environments. Development is his core value, and he builds teams that learn, improve, and deliver.
SMTA’s Surface Mount Technology International is back as a live event! The team behind the show and conference discuss the various activities taking place at SMTAI including the exhibition floor, professional development courses, technical presentations, special events and more.
SMTAI 2021 takes place November 1-4 in Minneapolis, MN. More information and registration is available here:
https://smta.org/mpage/smtai/
Standards are everywhere, and lots of organizations are sourcing and creating them. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission held a workshop 2019 that recently made the news, again, in July 2021. It was called “Nixing the Fix: a Workshop on Repair Restrictions”. Here’s what it’s about: manufacturers are not creating products with standard parts, or their design is created so its difficult for consumers to repair.
Are standards part of the answer? How can we proactively use them for design? Why should we?
OK … that is a little macabre. However, reliability engineers need to ask themselves this question a lot. And there are a lot of wrong answers out there. Some textbooks say that it is ‘commonly accepted’ to use this thing called the exponential distribution. Other books say that if the ‘Weibull shape parameter is 6 or greater … redesign!’ Do you have any idea what this means? If not, this webinar will be a nice little introduction for you!
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How are you monitoring your equipment? How is the electric wave going to impact mobile equipment?
Join Allyson Hawley and Steve Dobie as they talk about all this and much more!
Episode Shout Outs:
Allyson Hawley – https://www.linkedin.com/in/allyson-hawley-9906a494/
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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/
My guest has been quoted saying his personal mission is to make industry a profitable place; where individuals and manufacturers possess the resources, knowledge, and courage to sustainably lower their operating costs. I speak with James about his maintenance philosophies and his work teaching maintenance best practices.
James may be reached here:
James Kovacevic, MMP CMRP CAMA
jkovacevic@eruditio.com
https://eruditiollc.com
Buildings IOT is a:
● System integrator
● Software developer
● Services provider for the built environment: Work spaces, play, and industrial buildings except housing.
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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community 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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Kirk and Fred discussing how new technology designs of buildings or electronics are usually over-designed in the first generation.
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Kirk and Fred discussing marketing reliability, brand reputation for reliability along with tradeoffs between making equipment simple and reliable.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader Michelle Henley in Episode 19 of this series. Michelle Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions where she has spent the past 20 years helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using a game-based simulation. Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site’s reliability improvement efforts.
Before we can link customer needs to design, production, and service of our products, we need to listen to and understand the voice of the customer. We review 6 common VOC collection strategies, and talk about their pros and cons. We also discuss an affinity diagram process, which may help our team organize all of the data to get to customer needs.
A conversation with media personalities Mike Buetow (Circuits Assembly Magazine), Trevor Galbraith (Global SMT & Packaging), Phil Stoten (Scoop TV), and Eric Miscoll (EMC Now). During our conversation we covered various topics including post pandemic production, innovations within our industry, supply chain and labor shortages, and more.
My guests may be reached here:
Mike Buetow
mbuetow@upmediagroup.com
Trevor Galbraith
tgalbraith@trafalgarmedia.com
Phil Stoten
phil@wearescoop.com
Eric Miscoll
emiscoll@emsnow.com
Welcome Dan Miller to the podcast. Our topic will be metrics; how to pick the right KPIs and we will also discuss cornerstone metrics. But first, about Dan:
Dan is a maintenance reliability engineer at Global Water Resources. The guest worked as a consultant but currently is settled at the water company in Arizona.
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