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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we are excited to have one of our very own, Gary Wood, on the show! Gary is the Senior Implementation Manager at UpKeep. But, before working in the tech space, Gary garnered over 20 years of experience in maintenance. And, in this episode, he shares his expertise on CMMS implementation and when its the right time for organizations to adopt a CMMS to be set up for success!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Matthew Meyer in Episode 3 of this series. Matthew has spent over 33 years of manufacturing experience in areas of maintenance, operations, engineering and technical services and is currently the Senior Manager of Maintenance and Reliability Services at The Mosaic Company.
When we’re trying to innovate, we can get trapped into the old thinking that the solution has to be out there somewhere. We need to think outside the box to find the solution to a problem.
We should stop brainstorming and, instead, think inside the box with Systematic Inventive Thinking. We use systematic approaches to do lots of things, and being innovative can be one of them, too.
This podcast blog talks about the shortcomings of group brainstorming sessions and a different approach to innovation.
In this special episode, we look back at Rob’s Reliability Project, now Maintenance Disrupted at the three years of the weekly podcasts and over 160 episodes. We also welcome back Rob to the show to host this special podcast.
We are very excited to announce that Maintenance Disrupted is the official media sponsor of the Lubrication and Reliability Virtual Summit taking place on September 14th. Please check out more information and register here: https://lrvs.zohobackstage.com/LRVS2021#/?affl=MaintenanceDisrupted
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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/
Welcome Rob back to the Podcast. You were the founder of Rob’s Reliability Project and later started working as a co-host of the Leadership Launchpad Podcast and Dismantling the High Performance Narrative. Although, tell us more about yourself.
Rob- Having worked in reliability for ten years- transitioning across manufacturing, mining, and presently in an oil pipeline, it is clear that the biggest gap in the industry is in leadership. This became apparent after the observation of shop floor teams in different sites. Some leadership teams rarely listened to them and that drove a lack of psychological safety.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the evolution of technology and reliability in consumer products.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent opinion article in the New York Times on technology waste.
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On this episode, Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky welcome Charli Matthews to the show. We talk about empowering leaders and impact!
Want to become a high-impact leader? Go to robsreliability.com/leadership and sign up for The Leadership Launchpad Project High Impact Leader program.
If you want a private offering of The Leadership Launchpad Project program at your site, email rob@highperformancenarrative.com
Follow The Leadership Launchpad Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-leadership-launchpad-project
Connect with Charli Matthews on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlimatthews/
Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/
Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/
Check out – robsreliability.com/leadership
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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