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Join us as we interview Rob Kalwarowsky, host and creator of Rob’s Reliability Project as we discuss his learnings, his offerings, and what the futrue holds.
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This week on Rob’s Reliability Project, I welcome on Peter Horsburgh to talk about his book, 5 Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers. We talk about what the 5 habits are, how to apply them and Peter gives us his top tips on how to become an extraordinary reliability engineer!
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out http://robsreliability.com/ for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
In addition, if your company sells products or services to maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals and you would be interested in having your message spread to engaged industry professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. There are advertising options available from appearing on the podcast, video/picture content to having an ad read on the show. If one of those appeals to your company, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com to get more information.
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Kirk and Fred discussing old gasoline motors used in lawn equipment and how they can last what seems forever.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent failures of the new folding Samsung Galaxy phone and what might have been missed in their testing video.
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Most of the organizations in the maintenance and reliability industry have limited resources and they want to make the best use of what they have got. If the maintenance requirements of an organizations don’t match its resources, it is always going to result into an increased cost and decreased employee performance. The type of maintenance that an asset required throughout its life cycle needs to be performed in a balanced way. That’s why it is so important to have a maintenance philosophy when you are planning the life cycle cost of an asset. Level of Repair Analysis or LORA is a framework that helps you manage between maintenance cost and resources.
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This week on Rob’s Reliability Project, I welcome on Bernd Seidenthal to talk about proper bearing installation. We discuss why installing bearings properly is important, what people get wrong when installing bearings and Bernd gives his top tips for how to install them correctly.
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out robsreliability.com for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
In addition, if your company sells products or services to maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals and you would be interested in having your message spread to engaged industry professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. There are advertising options available from appearing on the podcast, video/picture content to having an ad read on the show. If one of those appeals to your company, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com to get more information.
If you haven’t signed up for my weekly reliability newsletter with extra exclusive content, go to http://robsreliability.com/email-list/ and sign up!
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Chris and Fred discuss what happens when you can’t avoid having the MTBF imposed upon you – even if it is your own organization and not the customer. Perhaps you are told that ‘our competitors quote the MTBF … so we have to as well!’ But you can (sneakily) tailor test data to get whatever MTBF you want. You can make life easy on yourself by not challenging this paradigm (noting that you will most likely get an unhappy customer). But it is almost impossible to apportion MTBF goals to individual designers that even allow the motivated ones to create a reliable system. So what do you do? Listen to this podcast to help you on your reliability journey.
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Tune in as we talk to one of the superstars of reliability and one of our favorite people alive! We talk about his journey and how he has overcome obstacles to get desired results.
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There are three approaches to setting tolerance limits for design elements. Each has ramifications for the eventual manufacturability and reliability performance—design for manufacturability and reliability hinges on correctly setting design tolerances. [Read more…]
Chris and Fred discuss scenarios where it is (for whatever reason) impossible to demonstrate reliability through testing. Some organizations think that if you can’t demonstrate through testing … then it can’t be a requirement that appears in a specification. So … does this mean that the customer can’t get something that is reliable if we can’t test for it? … can customers even ask for it? Of course they can. The customer knows what they want. Everyone needs to understand that you can verify performance through activities that don’t involve testing (… like analysis). This is how it works for nuclear power plants … so what makes your organization special? Listen to this podcast if this intrigues you.
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Today’s episode turns the table on our usual format. Normally, I interview an industry expert. Today, I’m the subject of the interview. My friend and colleague Phil Stoten from Scoop TV interviewed me a few months ago where we discussed cleaning and cleanliness testing as method to improve reliability. This interview took place on a crowded and relatively noisy trade show floor, so pardon the background noise. Here’s that interview.
Condition monitoring is time-based solution to mitigating and preventing failures and it is a huge part of RCM or RCM R. RCM R is the advanced, updated version of RCM that entails predictive maintenance as the main technique to perform condition-based monitoring to improve asset performance. The reason that RCM and PDM fit together perfectly is because reliability can never be complete without having some sort of predictive maintenance method in place. Condition monitoring is the perfect tool for that. It also incorporates vibration analysis, oil analysis, and the use of infrared from time to time but it’s all a part of running PMs smoothly.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Paul Goodbody on to the show. Paul is a level 3 thermographer and the IRISS. We talk about what we can detect using infrared cameras, how often we should take readings and Paul gives us some top tips for using thermography as a predictive maintenance tool.
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out robsreliability.com for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
In addition, if your company sells products or services to maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals and you would be interested in having your message spread to engaged industry professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. There are advertising options available from appearing on the podcast, video/picture content to having an ad read on the show. If one of those appeals to your company, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com to get more information.
If you haven’t signed up for my weekly reliability newsletter with extra exclusive content, go to http://robsreliability.com/email-list/ and sign up!
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Carl and Fred continuing to discuss the subject of integrating reliability within a very fast product development timeline.
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How often should you have a planning meeting? How all should be invited? How long should it take? These are a few of the questions that we tackle in the next installment of Practical Reliability.
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