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63 – The Importance of Storeroom and Spare Parts with John Ross

63 – The Importance of Storeroom and Spare Parts with John Ross

The Importance of Storeroom and Spare Parts with John Ross

Storing the right parts in your storeroom at the right time and in the right quantity is always effective. Storerooms are very important to a company’s survival in the long run so they should be managed at the core competency level of our businesses. The fact is that there is no way your maintenance and reliability operation is going to be successful without an effective spare parts management strategy and well-maintained storeroom. Not every organization is has a good storeroom and there can be a different number of reasons for that. They may be good at other things and they don’t pay attention to spare parts because they have a limited budget or just don’t value it that much.
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62 – Workforce Survey with Tom Wilk

62 – Workforce Survey with Tom Wilk

Workforce Survey with Tom Wilk

This episode is based upon the workforce survey conducted by plantservices.com back in 2015 and now again in 2017. These surveys were done to know more about the workforce concerning issues that the professionals face during a change in technology, media, and external environment. These surveys are actually to help industry leaders and managers to get a better insight about their concerns regarding recruitment, training, and finding career opportunities. In this survey the respondents were divided into groups but most of the respondents lay in two major categories—Boomers were 49.8% and Generation X at 39.3%– based on the generational distinction.
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Fundamentals of RBD

Fundamentals of RBD

An Introduction, Basic Uses, and Examples of How RBD Calculations Work

A reasonable model helps you make informed decisions. A simple reliability block diagram often provides the insights your team needs to prioritize and achieve the desired reliability performance. Let’s create, populate, and use RBDs effectively.

RBDs comprise a few simple elements and arrangements yet can describe a wide range of products and systems. There are a few assumptions to remember and a few basic ways to create a useful model for your system. [Read more…]

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61 – Understanding Asset Criticality with Susan Lubell

61 – Understanding Asset Criticality with Susan Lubell

Understanding Asset Criticality with Susan Lubell

Now as a maintenance and reliability engineer, you need to come up with some tools to help you do this asset criticality activity. The heat maps are a good way as they include the asset hierarchy of the organization along with the budget details and other related information. You rank every system in the map by creating matrices that have different illustrations—usually red dots for critical ones and so on—to allow you to focus on specific factors and the determine the consequences if those assets fail. In order to do this, stakeholders, plant maintenance staff and concerned officials need to interact as it leads to right answers by asking the right questions and addressing the right issues in a right way. This is done by cascading everything from the corporate level to the site level.
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60 – What is High Impact Learning with Dan Anderson

60 – What is High Impact Learning with Dan Anderson

What is High Impact Learning with Dan Anderson

This episode is dedicated to the High Impact Learning that is not limited to just the information you are provided within the classrooms. It meant you have to truly learn about something by actually applying what you have acquired in a learning program so that you can deliver the desired results for your organization. The main focus here is to practically implement the course material for better understanding purposes. This can be done by promoting the activity-based learning in the organizations. Then it becomes a true process where you are doing performance-based work rather than just gaining bookish knowledge.
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