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Fred and Thomas sat down at RAMS 2017 to talk about his work as a reliability engineer (actually a quality engineer) and a range of reliablity topics.
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In this episode, the guests, James Reyes-Picknell and Jesus Sifonte talk about the RCM Reengineered that they have also explained in their book—to be launched on 20th April— with a lot of practical approaches as well. The RCM Reengineered is based on the original RCM technique to avoid and manage failures occurring during the asset management process, but it optimizes a lot of factors with a broad range of criticality measures and problems that come along with it. The RCM has been around for a long time and was developed to handle the safety issues in flights but RCM Reengineered focuses on the failures that are science-based and then it provides you with the exact solutions that must be implemented to achieve long-term and sustainable reliability operation depending upon the type of the industry.
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For this milestone episode (200th show) Fred asked the co-host consultants how they got started in consulting.
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Fred and Phil sat down to talk about MTBF, RAMS, and the work he does in the reliability world.
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How often to you find people duplicating work, or work not being completed? What about tasks being started by one person, to be completed by another?
As organizations continue to do more with less, ensuring everyone is on the same page and pulling their weight becomes increasing important. The lines of communications, expectations, and alignment on achieving the vision of the organization are critical to the success of a maintenance department.
Often most people are put into positions without fully knowing what they are responsible for and accountable for.
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Fred and Mohammad sat down at RAMS 2017 to talk about the conference and his work in the field of reliability.
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Adam and Ann Marie discussing Software Reliability best practices
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This episode of the rooted in reliability podcast is about the condition of predictive maintenance in the industry and the guest in this episode is Thomas Wilk who is the editor in chief in Plant Services—a publication in the field of maintenance and reliability. There is no doubt in the fact that predictive maintenance is very critical for increasing uptime of your equipment and the productivity of your plant. When you can predict the failures that are sure to occur in the earlier or later stages, that is where you start to make the smart decisions regarding the maintenance of your assets that you have placed in your organization.
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Adam and Keegan discussing all the interesting factors of a career in Reliability Engineering
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Andre and Fred discussing finite element analysis and how it may be useful for reliability engineering professionals.
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Every failure has valuable information you and your team require to improve reliability. During the development process, each failure may represent a future recall. Celebrate every failure. Let your FRACAS prioritize which failures to resolve.
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In today’s episode, the guest Fred Schenkelberg explains the Monte Carlo simulation in a fair amount of detail. Before you get in the depth of how the tool works, you need to understand what basically this method is. The Monte Carlo simulation has been around since World War 2 and it is a mathematical technique that works based on probability functions, random variables, and the distribution of statistical data. The main concept of it to give the decision maker the most obvious choices while facing any risks to get the best out of every possible outcome. The tool serves the purpose for getting a better insight of the consequences relative to each choice the person making decisions has to make. When you’re looking for the reliability of your assets and checking the integrity of your different maintenance programs, it is a really powerful tool.
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Carl and Fred discussing the need to integrate Design for Reliablity activities throughout the entire organization.
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Carl and Fred discussing the reliability tool called “Root Cause Analysis,” and how RCA can be used in reliability programs.
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In this episode, the guest Paul Crocker tells his inspiring Maintenance and Reliability Engineering journey. He is an Uptime award holder in the innovative use of photography for maintenance in the Kansas City. He has been taking pictures of every equipment in the workshops, in the field, and everywhere he can. These pictures have worked like a living notebook for him—just a much better to look at, kind of. He suggests it to his coworkers and trains people to do the same as pictures of issues that an engineer faces in routine, failure data and equipment information can be pretty useful sometimes.
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