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On this week’s episode, I sit down with Ricky Smith and talk about culture change, spare room management and taking the CMRP. I hope you enjoy it!
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Without questions, organizations in the world need their assets to be optimal and to run efficiently. They can’t afford downtime because of the production targets they have to achieve. That is why they have to make a smart decision. They can either refurbish the assets or replace them. But the question is, when is refurbishing preferred over replacement? With refurbishment, you check the life-cycle cost of an asset. Sometimes, companies make small repairs because it’s relatively inexpensive and they can easily get the asset up and running quickly versus replacing the asset which may take time in lieu of internal approval process and purchase lead time.
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James and Fred discussing the range of measures in order to set reliability goals and track reliability performance given that calendar time is not always useful.
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Chris and Fred discussing how reliability work changes as the technology and scope of industries change.
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James Hunting joins me on Rob’s Reliability Project this week to discuss Reliability Leadership, Precision Maintenance and Spare Parts Management.
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Proper lubrication is one of the most important things to consider to keep the equipment up and running. When the equipment is over-lubricated or under-lubricated, it can lead to premature failures and increased maintenance costs. So how do we know how much lubrication a machine or a parts needs? What tools can be used for a precise amount of lubrication?
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Adam and John Kreucher discussing what Qualitative and Quantitative testing are in their own words
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Adam and John Kreucher discussing the ins and outs of handling customer reliability specifications
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In this week’s episode of the Reliability Rocks Podcast, I sit down with RCM expert Nancy Regan to discuss how to do RCM well, what to avoid and how it relates to poker.
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The usage of electricity in doing the day-to-day tasks in the workplace is a common practice. The safety of the workers and maintaining the electrical equipment is just as important as the maintenance of other systems. There are electrical safety programs in place but still, there are a lot of fatalities in the workplace because of exposure to sensitive electricity-based tools. There are safety manuals in place but there are other reasons that these safety issues occur all the time in the maintenance and reliability industry. This may be due to lack of training or with electrical safety programs not in compliance with the work environment—region, country, and other regulatory compliances.
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Carl and Fred discussing the primary steps to achieving high reliability.
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Carl and Fred discussing the importance of customer perception from a reliability point of view.
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This episode’s for all the listeners who travel a lot, for work or pleasure, and want to stay healthy while on the road.
Dr. LaTouche from Thrive Workplace Wellness, www.thriveworkplacewellness.com, shares his tips on sleep, diet and exercise while traveling.
Email any feedback to robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com for any reliability, maintenance or health topics that you’d like on the show!
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Stress screening, highly accelerated stress screening, and burn-in are expensive activities to avoid. Yet stress screening does have a valuable purpose in specific circumstances. Let’s talk about when and why you may conduct stress screening.
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When there is unplanned downtime and repeating failures in the plant, that means you are not managing your assets in the right way. Asset management can be used to enhance the value of a piece of equipment. So what is asset management? It is simply a process to make sure you get the value that you want from your machines. The idea is not just to get value in terms of money. It is about making sure that your equipment is in the optimum conditions and is running when you really need it to. This is something you can’t do without asset management.
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