SOR 453 How to Balance Reliability vs New Tech

How to Balance Reliability vs New Tech

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Chris and Fred discuss how we balance … or incorporate new technology with reliability. Is reliability something that only comes with legacy or age? … as in old technology? Can you make a product that is based on new technology and have it reliable? … are these concepts mutually exclusive? If we look at this from an ‘asset management’ perspective, there is a movement out there that we need things like increasingly sophisticated sensing technology to ensure reliability, availability, throughput or whatever it is we are trying to improve. From a ‘developmental product’ perspective, does new technology mean ‘all bets are off’ when it comes to reliability? Well … we talk about these things in this podcast. ᐅ Play Episode

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PR 028 PM of Storeroom Parts

PM of Storeroom Parts

Do you have a strategy for maintaining your spare parts that require it? In this episode we discuss setting up PM program for your storeroom. Everything from turning shafts to calibrating your PdM equipment.
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RRP 067 Using AI to Optimize Processes with Don Doan

Welcome to Rob’s Reliability Project, I’m Rob Kalwarowsky. On this week’s episode, I welcome on Don Doan from Symphony Azima AI to talk about using machine learning to optimize processes. We talk about using supervised machine learning & why we still need human operators.

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173-What is ICML55 with Jim Fitch

What is ICML55 with Jim Fitch

Lubrication is one of the fundamental things that needs to be taken care of if you want your machines healthy. There’s a lot to learn from the leading organizations in order to have good lubrication programs. The organizations looking to get started in the field can take information from different platforms and online media. One of such resources is International Council of Machine Lubrication. ICML55 is a standard that originated from the concept of asset management standard ISO55000. There was a need to have a standard lubrication guide that will allow you to have a sustainable lubrication program with best practices incorporated in it.

In this episode, we covered:

What is ICML55?
Why is lubrication an important factor in machine maintenance?
What are the basics that you need to have sustainable lubrication?
And much more!

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SOR 452 Is Meeting the Standard Enough

Is Meeting the Standard Enough?

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Carl and Fred discussing a question: is meeting regulatory standards sufficient to ensure a product is safe and reliable?
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SOR 451 Risk Identification Tools and Use

Risk-Identification Tools and Their Use

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Carl and Fred discussing risk-identification tools, one of the four categories of reliability tools.
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RRP 066 Voice of the Customer with Shadrach Stephens

On this week’s episode, I welcome on Shadrach Stephens to talk about collaboration, reliability leadership and the voice of the customer.

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172-Key Performance Influencer with Bill Leahy

Key Performance Influencer with Bill Leahy

What does a KPI mean to you? Is it just a performance measurement tool to you? Is it a metrics that you have developed to see how your systems are doing? A KPI is all of these things but much more than that. A KPI is an organizational goal that you have to achieve. When you have smaller key performance Influencer in place to drive people’s behavior towards achieving a larger organizational goal, that’s when a KPI becomes effective. So, we are using our key performance influencers—any incentives or benefits that would keep the employees motivated—to achieve our performance goals on a day to day basis which ultimately leads to achieving all the KPIs an organizations might have set in.

In this episode, we covered:

What exactly is KPI?
How can you utilize KPI efficiently?
What is the purpose of KPI and how can it help your organization?
And much more!

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PR 027 Supply Chain and Plant Reliability

Supply Chain and Plant Reliability

In this episode Joe and George discuss the impact supply chain has on overall plant performance. Find out how they impact reliability and what you need to do to educate them before their efforts to save company money do the opposite.
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RM 022 – A Conversation About Adhesion Testing with BTG Lab’s Materials Scientist Elizabeth Kidd

A Conversation About Adhesion Testing with BTG Lab’s Materials Scientist Elizabeth Kidd

On this episode, we’ll be discussing surface adhesion. What makes a surface more adherable, what makes it less adherable, and most importantly, how can one determine a surface’s adhere-ability (is that a word?) before applying a coating.

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SOR 450 Customer Experience and Failures – Its not you its them!

Customer Experience and Failures – Its not you its them!

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to ‘fail.’ Not from a personal sense! But what does it mean for your product to fail. Engineering or design specifications describe what the product or system must do. So does failure simply occur when the product can no longer meet all these specifications? What if your product or system meets all these criteria – but your customer ‘thinks’ is has failed? We have seen many instances where a group of people who design and make products will vehemently argue that even if the customer thinks something has failed when it meets the specifications, then nothing is wrong. Is it? What do you think the customer will do? Do you think they will be ‘happy’? If this is a problem you come across, then listen to this podcast.
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SOR 449 When to Use a Previous Test Plan

When to Use a Previous Test Plan

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Chris and Fred discuss when (and if) you can use a reliability test plan that you have used before. If it worked then … why won’t it work now? Won’t you save money, time and other things that you can get bonuses for? Well yes. We received a question from one of our listeners who asked why you might not want to test the product the same way. There are many good reasons why you wouldn’t want to do this. If you want to learn more, listen to this podcast.
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RRP 065 Reliability in Mining with Steve Dobie

This week’s episode focuses around reliability in mining with Steve Dobie. We talk about changing cultures, haul truck tires and the impact of autonomous trucking on reliability.

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Finally, if there are any topics, guests you’d like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

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171-Decision Making with Rob

Decision Making with Rob

Decision making is a major part of maintenance and reliability. The engineers have to make decisions all the time regarding assets, budgets, and risk analysis. There are some decisions that don’t really have serious consequences but when it comes to asset management, every decision is important. They need to be economical and there should be a good balance between cost, risk, and asset performance. Most of the time, the managers are making all the decisions and they either do it based on their experience or they just go with their gut feeling.

In this episode, we covered: