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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have special guest, Josh Wagner, Director of Marketing and IT for Fluitec, to share his expertise on lubrication and how organizations should focus on lubrication as a part of their maintenance and reliability. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader George Parada in Episode 2 of this series. George has spent his career working in the food and beverage industry and is currently the Global Asset Management & Ops Readiness Manager at Facebook.
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I was privileged to be a guest on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney (Worthington Assembly) and Melissa Hough (CircuitHub). This is the first of a two-part interview.
In this episode we are joined by Mike Konrad to chat about board cleaning. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents. Their board cleaning equipment assists manufacturers with increasing product reliability while saving both water and energy, reducing the industry’s environmental impact.
In addition to being the President of Aqueous Technologies, he is also a fellow podcaster and runs the Reliability Matters Podcast, which discusses reliability of circuit assemblies, reliability “best practices” and success stories.
In the first part of this conversation we delve into the history of board cleaning, the electronics the industry’s transition to primarily using no-clean flux, and why more and more companies are reintroducing board cleaning back into their assembly process.
If you want to listen to us get into the nitty gritty details of how to implement a proper circuit board cleaning process, make sure to listen to the second half of this episode.
Chris Denney may be reached here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com
Melissa Hough may be reached here:
melissa@circuithub.com
HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) uses the weakest link mentality. We apply stresses beyond what our designs would normally see in the environment to make something fail. It’s meant to be an iterative test program where you are testing, analyzing the results, determining the root cause, fixing the design, and then testing it, again.
Listen-in to the podcast or read the transcript to find out more about its roots, why you should perform HALT (or not), when in the design process it’s best (hint: really early), and who likely needs to be involved.
If nothing changes, then nothing changes. Change happens when we decide to do something. The status quo remains if we decide to do nothing. We make decisions every day. We do it so often that it might seem like a trivial thing to do. But we so often get it wrong. We might be influenced by emotion, prejudice, time pressure, budgetary stress, or ‘mental comfort.’ [Read more…]
Lubrication, reliability, women in STEM, Maintenance Mastermind and a whole lot more. In this weeks episode we welcome Sanya Mathura to the show and we cover a lot of ground. Sanya is a champion in maintenance and reliability and huge supporter of Maintenance Disrupted. [Read more…]
Matt is the Chief Product Officer at Atonix Digital and is involved with AI, works on software packages, analytics etc. More about Matt:
He has a background in mechanical engineering and started off in a large firm where they offered remote monitoring services to power generating customers. They oversaw reliability and operational performance. Over time, the company started investing in software tools to facilitate better and more efficient monitoring. The firm then split and now a portion of it only focuses on operational intelligence tools.
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘proactive’ reliability engineering … and trying to get out of being ‘reactive.’ Some entire organizations are structure around waiting for the catastrophe to happen before we fix it. So changing perspectives can be challenging.
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability starts at the top of every organization. And by that, we mean … leadership. What does that mean? How can the CEO be more important for reliability performance than the reliability engineer with decades of experience and post-graduate qualifications?
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On this bonus episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky welcome Garett Earl to the show to talk about people-centric leadership and how to engage your people. [Read more…]
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Tim Goshert in Episode 1 of this series. Tim has 40 years of experience working in processing industries.
It takes a village to produce a design from concept to realization. Everyone along the way seems to think of risk a little bit differently. Designers are both directly and indirectly involved with all these risk management methods, but it’s important to understand who is looking at what type of information. Why? Because of communication. One group might think that risk management is covered in the way they’re thinking it should be, when in actuality it’s not.
This podcast will review risk management of other functional groups and how a designer’s risk affects them.
As a designer you have an important job and a unique perspective to analyze risk of your design and a responsibility to communicate it so everyone can help reduce risks.
Welcome back to another episode of the Technology Innovations series of the Maintenance Disrupted Podcast where we look at the people and technology fueling Industry 4.0. In this episode, Blair Fraser sit down with Dane Boers of Modla to talk about the digitization of asset knowledge.
In this episode, we discuss the typical approach to answer questions like what should my budget be next year or what predictive monitoring technology should I utilize. It doesn’t take long to realize that most of the questions get answered from the foundation knowledge that exists in exercises like FMECA and RCM but more concerning is the amount of information in people’s head, SME knowledge. But how do you get it out? How do you have repeatability in your answers? Take a listen to this new approach to answering questions using asset modeling.
Connect with our Guest Here:
Dane Boers – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daneboers/
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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Welcome Bennett who is the Director of Product Development at Noria Corporation.
Bennet has a background in Mechanical Engineering and worked in an oil analysis laboratory. Currently focuses on lubrication product development and has consulted for many plants enough to notice the common challenges
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of root cause. How many “root causes” can there be? Is there only one “root cause” for a problem? What about events or conditions that happen in tandem?
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