Practical Use of Stress-Strength Models to Develop Specifications

podcast episode with speaker Rob Schubert

Warranty returns are a great place to start for setting targets for new products. But how do you translate that to specific numbers to design to? If you know the strength of a product and the return rate, you can develop stress profiles. If you have multiple similar products, your estimates can be even better. From the profiles, targets can be developed for future products to meet and use them to calculate the expected return rates. You can even use these profiles to estimate the impact of design changes to warranty returns. [Read more…]

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RRP 118 High Impact Leadership with Susan Hobson

On this week’s episode, I welcome Susan Hobson. We discuss new-school leadership, mindset & impact.

Inspired to become a high-impact leader? Join The Leadership Launchpad Project at http://robsreliability.com/leadership

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SOR 575 Cultural Avoidance of Engineering

Cultural Avoidance of Engineering

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Chris and Fred discuss the organizations that culturally avoid engineering. Those organizations that for some reason, never ask for the data, the math, the tests, the thinking or anything else that might actually help you understand why your thing fails.
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SOR 574 When to Run Qualifications Again

When to Run Qualifications Again

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Chris and Fred discuss when you should run qualification tests again. A qualification test can be anything – essentially all your product, system or service has to do is meet or exceed something to get a tick in the box. So if you make a minor change to your system – do you need to run all your qualification tests again? Can you get away with not doing any? Listen to this podcast to learn more!
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MIM S2:E13 Lucas Marino

An Interview with Lucas Marino

In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to welcome Lucas Marino on the show!

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Essential Reliability Engineering Concepts

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

Everything will eventually fail. I like to say that keeps us in business as reliability engineers. The trick is knowing what will fail and when. There are many potential causes for a product or system to fail. Design flaws, supplied component latent defects, assembly damage, and unexpected applied stresses exist.

The key to take away from this concept is we can learn when studying failures. We can work to prevent or delay specific types of failures. By learning about failures, we learn how to create reliable products. [Read more…]

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RRP 117 Why Leadership, Why Me & Why Now

On this week’s episode, I talk about leadership & why we struggle in industry. To learn more about The Leadership Launchpad Project, go to http://robsreliability.com/leadership

If you sign up before September 1, I’m giving you $500 off the regular price of $1,999 CAD. There are limited spots available in The Leadership Launchpad Project so sign up today!

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RM 049: A Conversation with SMTA’s Tanya Martin and Greg Vance about SMTAI 2020

A Conversation with SMTA’s Tanya Martin and Greg Vance about SMTAI 2020

Episode 49 – A Conversation with SMTA’s Global Executive Director Tanya Martin and Greg Vance, Member of SMTA Global Board of Directors about SMTAI 2020’s new virtual format.

Numerous exhibitors are taking part in this new format. More than 100 technical presentations and papers will be available on-demand. Additionally, nine 3.5 hour professional development courses will be presented live!

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222-Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

Today, we’re welcoming Rob Kalwarowsky from Rob’s Reliability project. He’s currently an asset manager at Enbridge, handling their mechanical assets. Rob was previously a reliability consultant for five years, as well as a reliability engineer at Teck Resources. He’s been on a few of our previous podcasts.

But today, he’s helping us look into aspects of spare parts optimization such as:

What spare parts optimization is
The data necessary to help with optimization
The available approaches and formulas to calculate it
How often should you review your optimization process

… and so much more!

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SOR 573 What do We Have Confidence In?

What do We Have Confidence In?

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.
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SOR 572 Minimum Viable Reliability

Minimum Viable Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?
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RRP 116 Culture Change with Michelle Henley & Jeff Shiver

On this week’s episode, I welcome Michelle Henley and Jeff Shiver. We discuss culture change and motivation.

You can connect with our guests here:

Michelle Henley – https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleledethenley/

Jeff Shiver – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffshiver/

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

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.

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221-Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

I’m excited to have Bill Leahy with us for a deep dive into whether organizations should build an RE internally, or they should hire externally to fill those roles. Bill has worked at Eruditio for the past three years and is currently a senior instructor there.

Today, we’re tackling important points such as:

What an RE is
The educational and professional qualifications that an RE needs to have
The pros and cons of internal versus external hires
How to train candidates for the role

… and so much more!

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SOR 571 Safety and Reliability

Safety and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.
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