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Author of the Rob's Reliability Project articles and host of Rob's Reliability Project podcast (renamed Maintenance Disrupted with new hosts).

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RRP 111 Reliability Math Q&A with Fred Schenkelberg and André Ferrari

On this week’s episode, I welcome Fred Schenkelberg and André Ferrari to the show. We discuss Reliability math, and how to use it.

You can connect with our guests here:

Fred Schenkelberg – https://www.linkedin.com/in/fmsreliability/

André Ferrari – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9-michel-ferrari-9a27b573/

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

Check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/

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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

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How Is Your Organization Leading?

Early in my career during a period of low commodity prices, a high-level executive sent an email to middle management with the following context:

We are not willing to spend money on new software, projects or ideas. If an engineer comes to you with an idea. tell them to look into how we’ve always done it and get them to do it that way. [Read more…]

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RRP 110 Continuous Improvement Q&A with Hal Frohreich, Mario Aguirre, Calvin Williams, Maria Williams, Brandy Schade, and Nick Dumasia

On this week’s episode, I welcome Hal Frohreich, Mario Aguirre, Calvin Williams, Maria Williams, Brandy Schade, and Nick Dumasia the show. We discuss how to become better continuous improvement leaders.

You can connect with our guests here:

Hal Frohreich – https://www.linkedin.com/in/halfrohreich/

Mario Aguirre – https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaguirre/

Calvin Williams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvin-l-williams/

Maria Williams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamsantonia/

Brandy Schade – https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandyschade/

Nick Dumasia – https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-dumasia-b6182616/

If you’re company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/

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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

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What Are You Experiencing?

A lot of us are heading back to the office, back to the plant or back to the facility and the game has changed. Lock-down has changed our companies and our jobs in different ways. Are you seeing more tracking, more monitoring, more metrics, less trust? Are you seeing more love, more compassion, more human-centered leadership? How has your job changed? Are you excited or anxious about going back to work? [Read more…]

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Who’s Job Is It?

Yesterday, I got a question from the subject matter expert (SME) for one of the equipment types for which I manage the capital strategy. He asked me who was in charge of the operating scope (when and how long to run the equipment). My first reaction was that it was supposed to be him. [Read more…]

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RRP 109 Starting Reliability with Bob Latino & Steve Dobie

On this week’s episode, I welcome Bob Latino & Steve Dobie to the show. We discuss how to uncover chronic failures, the difference between maintenance and reliability, and some tips on starting a reliability program.

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RRP 108 Maintenance & Reliability in Mining with Steve Dobie, Jeff Naylor, and Jason Apps

On this week’s episode, I welcome Steven Dobie, Jeff Naylor, and Jason Apps. We discuss the biggest issues in mining, defect elimination/RCA, and how to start a reliability program.

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Love, Compassion & Healing

This past week, I was getting really frustrated, angry and hateful towards myself. I kept seeing the root cause of my problems and I wasn’t able to let it go, I wasn’t able to heal. I started laying into myself, beating myself up in a way that is appalling. I shut down. I stalled. On Friday, I had a call with my coach and she told me what I needed to do. [Read more…]

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RRP 107 Culture Change with Cliff Williams, Michelle Henley, Susan Lubell & Martha Myers

On this week’s episode, I welcome Michelle Ledet Henley, Sue Lubell, Cliff Williams and Martha Myers to the show. We discuss all aspects of culture change in maintenance & reliability.

If you haven’t yet, check out my website robsreliability.comand sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/

Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/

Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

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The Hidden Costs of Not Caring About Our People

The more people I talk to in industry, the more I see a divide. I see a divide between companies who treat their employees like robots and companies who treat their employees with the love & connection that they deserve. We’ve all experienced disengagement, frustration and apathy throughout our careers and it costs us our happiness. It costs us our mental health.

It also costs our companies. It costs them big dollars. [Read more…]

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RRP 106 People, Connection & Culture with Ryan Chan

On this week’s episode, I welcome Ryan Chan, the founder & CEO of UpKeep to the show. We discuss radical transparency, communication and building personal connection in the workplace. We have special guest appearances by Bob Latino & Michelle Ledet Henley.

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Bad Leadership Almost Cost Me My Life

The tumblers all fell into place, the lock clicked, the door opened and it all became clear.

Bad leadership almost cost me my life.

This was a few weeks ago in a session with my coach, Susan Hobson. I hadn’t put the pieces together. I hadn’t seen the connection. I saw my depression, my suicidal thoughts, my pain, my struggles as part of my story but something that just happened to me.

Now I see that it’s a gift. [Read more…]

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RRP 105 Manufacturing Q&A with Joe Anderson, Calvin Williams, George Williams & Hal Frohreich

On this week’s episode, I welcome a great panel of guests to answer questions about manufacturing, continuous improvement and starting/stopping production. Those panelists include Joe Anderson, George Williams, Calvin Williams and Hal Frohreich.

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Are You Taking Advantage of the Opportunity?

A lot of businesses have had to make tough decisions during COVID-19, including decisions that affect their people. Some of these decisions include cutting hours, cutting wages & lay-offs. Throughout my career, I’ve been affected by some of these decisions. The line that stuck with me the most, when I was being laid off by an HR manager, she said to me “this is a business decision”. [Read more…]

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RRP 104 RCM Q&A with Nancy Regan, Doug Plucknette & Errin Evans

On this week’s episode, I welcome a great panel of guests to answer questions about RCM. The expert panelists are Nancy Regan, Doug Plucknette & Errin Evans. We talk about the benefits of RCM, the difference between RCM & FMEA and each guest gives us their top RCM tips.

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