Possible Ways to Change the Reliability Engineering Industry
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Kirk and Fred discussing what it takes to really make industry-wide changes.
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SOR 437 Possible Ways to Change the Reliability Engineering Industry
RRP 059 Asset Management, Risk & Business Processes with Suzane Greeman
RRP 059 Asset Management, Risk & Business Processes with Suzane Greeman
This week I’m joined by Suzane Greeman to discuss asset management and why your business processes are holding you back from achieving your reliability goals.
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RM 019- A Conversation about Display Technologies and Reliability-Improving Production Methods
A Conversation about Display Technologies and Reliability-Improving Production Methods
My guests today are two of the people behind Anders, a UK-based company which manufactures displays and embedded control systems. Anders manufactures display and embedded controller products for a variety of industries including medical, marine, industrial, home, and much more. My guests are Ander’s General Manager, Paul Mullen and Display and Input Technology Manager, Mike Logan. Both Paul and Mike spoke with me from their London headquarters. Anders website is https://www.andersdx.com
165-Reliability Catch Up with Fred
Reliability Catch Up with Fred
Reliability and Maintenance industry changes very fast. The organization always enlist the help of consultants when their assets are failing. The reason why it doesn’t work sometimes is because the companies don’t know what they are looking for. Before you go about hiring some consulting firm, you need to have some certain information for them to begin with. Once you know what the problem is and what is it that you are trying to accomplish, it becomes easier for consultants to help you with overcoming failures and stopping them in the first place. You have to understand where you are at? What kind of problems are you facing?
In this episode, we covered:
- Reliability and Maintenance industry
- How do you select the right tools?
- Do you need a consultant?
- And much more!
SOR 436 Is Testing Always Necessary?
Is Testing Always Necessary?
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Chris and Fred discuss what happens when you have failure … but don’t know why. This is a challenging problem that most reliability engineers will face throughout their career. You will always need to use an objective, structured and strategic approach. And you will often find that a lot of information is at your fingertips – you may be able to create a very short list of candidate root causes without having to test. Effort without direction won’t solve problems. If you want to learn more about solving this really challenging problems, then listen to this podcast.
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PR 022 Interview with Calvin Williams, Founder and CEO of Impruver
Interview with Calvin Williams, Founder and CEO of Impruver
Calvin shares his insights on improving manufacturing performance, the skills trades gap, and how his solution, Impruver, helps driver results through the PDCA cycle.
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SOR 435 Environmental or Reliability Testing
Environmental or Reliability Testing
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Adam and Fred discussing the different types and intents of reliability and environmental testing
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164 Unsung Heros with Ryan
Unsung Heros with Ryan
With the kind of data that technicians collect in the field on a daily basis, it is very hard to note down everything. What they usually do is they go into the shop, perform some routine repairs and then come back to their desks to note everything they have encountered. Even if they manage to note down every single thing into their notebook or whatever paperwork they have available to them, they have to move around a lot and hassle through data every time they leave their position to go into the shop and then, come back.
In this episode, we covered:
- Reliability and Maintenance industry
- How do you select the right tools?
- Do you need a consultant?
- And much more!
PR 021 Planning – Classifications
Planning – Classifications
A review of the benefits of using Classifications and attributes as it applies to the role of Planner.
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RRP 058 Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) with John Reeve
RRP 058 Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) with John Reeve
On this week’s episode, I am joined by John Reeve, co-author of Failure Modes to Failure Codes to talk about computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). We talk about how we can use a CMMS to facilitate chronic failure analysis, how to properly set up a component list and John gives us his top CMMS tips.
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SOR 434 Quick Testing to Encourage Innovation
Quick Testing to Encourage Innovation
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Adam and Fred discussing how finding innovative ways to test new designs can lead to quicker product development.
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SOR 433 Reliability Design Risk Summary
Reliability Design Risk Summary
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Adam and Fred discussing tools for assessing risk to the products performance in the field
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RM 018 – A Conversation with Saturn Electronics’ Yash Sutariya about PCB Fabrication
A Conversation with Saturn Electronics’ Yash Sutariya about PCB Fabrication
Yash Sutariya is the President of Saturn Electronics Corporation, Saturn Flex Systems, and Saturn PCB Services, all PCB-centric operating entities. Today, we’ll discuss what every buyer of printed circuit boards should be concerned about and Yash will offer a few auditing tips that would be helpful when auditing or selecting a PCB supplier. Yash is the author of PCB RELIABILITY: AUDITING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN TO INSURE IT, a paper he presented at SMTAI 2018.
163-FRACAS with Brandon Weil
FRACAS with Brandon Weil
With changing technology in the reliability and maintenance industry, the best practices are always changing in order to improve the overall reliability for the long term. Failure reporting analysis and corrective action system or FRACAS is one of the best tools towards just achieving that goal. It is a process for collecting failure history, analyzing it for patterns, getting to root causes, implementing the corrective actions and then, monitoring the results of those actions. So, it is basically the collection of all the other reliability processes merged into one. In order for this to work, you can’t just rely on the PMs.
In this episode, we covered:
- What is FRACAS?
- How can you use FRACAS effectively?
- How do you start with a FRACAS process?
- And much more!
PR 020 Planning BOMs
Planning BOMs
A review of Bill of Materials, the benefits to the Planner, and the Planner’s role in ensure they exist.
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