Transitioning to CMMS with Steve Ricard

CMMS stands for Computerized Maintenance Management System. These systems have been in existence since somewhere around 1965. They have, however, seen a dramatic shift from punch cards to the modern architecture we see today.

Steve Ricard of Fiix joins in this episode to share his insights on how organizations can make a successful transition from older to more modern CMMS.

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Gaining Control of Process Control

In this episode, James interviews Keith Staton of Weyerhaeuser. Keith has had a long career in reliability and got his start with the Navy. He is now the maintenance and reliability director for 14 Weyerhaeuser plants and just published a paper titled Gaining Control of Process Control which inspired this episode.
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Electronic Monitoring With Simon Jagers

Impact the environment and your bottom line with better monitoring.

In this episode, James interviews Simon Jagers, founder of Semiotic Labs. Semiotic Labs creates and markets smart machine-monitoring technologies and Simon is a passionate advocate for the power of this technology to reduce wasted time, energy, and costs. Simon walks us through the motor monitoring systems popular today and how modern motor current signature analysis (MCSA) and a web connection allows monitoring to be done safer and more cost-efficient than ever.

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SMRP 07 – IoT Readiness with Kevin Clark

The internet of Things (IoT) is often assumed to be understood by everyone. However, there is somewhat of a disconnect between what we know IoT to be, and actually implementing it especially on larger scale. 

Kevin Clark helps us clear the air around IoT and how organizations can prepare themselves to make the most of it.
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Pilot to Full Scale Adoption of iIoT with Arun Santhebennur

The Industrial Internet of Things is not an initiative. It is now a real-world application. For organizations that are data-driven, IIoT is where rubber meets the road.

The fourth industrial revolution being hallmarked by growing networks around people and things. As the internet becomes more mature, we’re seeing a new era of innovations building on to the influence created by social media. It is the Internet of Things (IoT) which aims to connect people to smart devices. Industry players are seeking ways of leaner and smarter production to remain competitive. Industrial IoT (IIoT) comes in with provisions of monitoring and preventive maintenance to improve productivity. The end goal is optimizing the life of production assets.

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SMRP Recap with Bill Leahy

The Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) Conference of 2019 attracted over 1200 professionals across fields of reliability, maintenance and physical asset management across the USA. The 2019 event was held in Louiseville Kentucky between 7th and 10th October 2019. 
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Rules of Thumb in Reliability

Reliability is a procedural science at its core. This simply means that it is guided by a discipline to follow the set procedure and incrementally improve. As human beings, we tend to have a slight weakness in strict adherence to procedures. Sometimes with reliability, it is usually a result of not having the fundamentals down that we end up with inconsistent operations. Ricky Smith, a renowned reliability expert shared nuggets of wisdom from his seasoned experiences. ᐅ Play Episode

Work-order Management with John Reeve

Work-order management is the key for successful asset management programs. It is usually incorporated in the CMMS in its designing stages to obtain knowledgeable information out of the system. It can be defined as the process of tracking of all the maintenance activities from initiation to completion. Work orders are used to keep record of every task that is being carried in the facility. It can be planned—when you have bigger jobs to perform such as condition-based monitoring—or it can be unplanned in case of small corrective actions of simple fixes.

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Role of Data in Reliability

With the advent of Industry 4.0, data and connectivity have enabled equipment to become continuous factories of data. Whether process data, master data or realtime data, it has never been a more challenging time to adjust and harness the power of seemingly huge piles of potential information. Traditional maintenance and reliability are undergoing a tremendous shift as organizations become more data-driven. Sean Rosier and Nathanael Ince of PinnacleART are on the show to help us put in context, the relevance of data in reliability.
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Maintenance Perfection with Joe

It’s hard to hear someone talk about maintenance without mentioning reliability, or the other way around. While these terms are similar, they are not the same. In this episode, Joe Lonjin of Cohesive Solutions helps us get a better picture of how these two practices are different, and how to create harmony between them. ᐅ Play Episode

Risk-Based Asset Criticality with Suzane Greeman

Asset criticality plays a huge role in asset management. It is the ranking of assets depending upon the importance of every asset to the organization. When we talk about assessing that asset criticality, it means that we are determining that importance level of the assets within a particular organization. Once you know the criticality of each of your assets, you will be able to devise a methodology for risk based management of those assets. As it is a risk based process, everything related to that asset especially its history is very important for assessing the risk to that asset.

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Risk with David Albrice

While doing asset management, the organizations are always keen to balance the outcomes between performance, cost, and risk. Risk is a huge part of asset management programs and can be defined as the uncertainty that an organizations faces to achieve its objectives. There are lot of things happening in an organization, so there are a lot of uncertainties all around. With innovation and growth opportunities, comes the risk as well. The risk is mostly considered in terms of negative experiences but it can lead to positive experiences too.  Whenever you take a risk, there’s always a chance that things could go either way.

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Project Manager’s Guide with Brandon Weil

Planning and scheduling maintenance and reliability programs takes a bit of a work but implementing that plan takes real effort and that’s where the project managers come in. They are the ones who define the scope of the plan and come with estimates in terms of budget and time. Project planners usually have a singular responsibility and that is to divide the work into a group of activities. These activities are part of major interdependent processes and there are always risks involved that need to be identified and addressed at the very start. It is very difficult to get the results without proper planning and management.

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Planner Certification with Shon Isenhour

Behind a successful reliability program, there’s always a great plan for implementation. This is something that maintenance planners handle. They are the ones who create job plans, strategize those plans, and then develop procedures to implement them with success. The scope of a maintenance planner’s job is flexible, so there are different type roles that a planner or a planner and scheduler plays depending upon the type of the organization they are working for. Some of the maintenance planners receive proper training while the others just get into the process as they go along.

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RCA Tips with Shon Isenhour

RCA is one of the most basic yet most important of the processes in a reliability program. RCA isn’t just about solving a problem or fixing an error in your system. It is more than just finding a single root causes. When a problem occurs, there can be more than one reasons why that occurred in the first place. RCA helps us reduce the risk of that problem to a level that is acceptable to the organization. It is always a systemic and latent approach that takes time and should be done more often rather than just doing it when a problem has already occurred.

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