Accendo Reliability

Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site

by Leave a Comment

239 – The Soft Side of Planning with Rick Clonan

239 – The Soft Side of Planning with Rick Clonan

The Soft Side of Planning with Rick Clonan

We’re excited to have Rick Clonan back with us to talk about planning. He currently serves as an Implementation and Training Manager at Eruditio and as the Best Practices Chair for the SMRP. He’s been in the industry for close to 30 years as a technician, planner/scheduler, maintenance supervisor, CMS administrator.

In this episode, we will be discussing:

  • What is maintenance planning
  • What is the soft side of planning
  • What is morale
  • What’s the connection between morale and productivity

…and so much more!

ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

236 – Machinery Installation: Planning with Roman Megela

236 – Machinery Installation: Planning with Roman Megela

Machinery Installation: Planning with Roman Megela

It’s a pleasure to have Roman Megela from Easy-Laser join us on this deep dive into Machinery Installation. He’s worked with rotating equipment for over 20 years, particularly in service, installation, assembly, and commissioning for gas compression, glass production, and stainless steel. So far, we’ve looked into how strategy and integrity fall into the Machinery Installation process. We’ll now get a look into the role Planning plays in Machinery Installation.

Roman will give us insights on:

  • What is Planning?
  • Are there technical specifications for planning?
  • How does Planning impact installation?

… and so much more!

ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

223-Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

223-Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

Back with us is Paul Daoust, the founder of Scio Asset Management. He’s also a member of the PEMAC board of directors. Paul’s helped us tackle different topics on several previous shows. That’s due to his extensive experience in the oil, gas, and energy sectors. He’s also gotten life cycle and investment planning experience. That’s while assembling capital and operating projects on various operations.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

  • What asset investment planning is
  • How it works
  • Why your organization needs it
  • How proposed regulatory requirements affect it
  • Where to get the necessary data

… and so much more!

ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

140 – The Job Plan Library with Brandon Weil

140 – The Job Plan Library with Brandon Weil

The Job Plan Library with Brandon Weil

Technicians and engineers carry out their day to day tasks in a standard way. Sometimes, there are variations in the operating conditions but the standard procedures stay the same. They are doing PMs and different sorts of analysis. Some are really good at it because they have been doing it for a long time. The experience and knowledge of those people should be written down somewhere so that others can adopt those best practices to carry out their standard routine work the same way. This is something a Job Plan Library can help with. It is the standard plan work that is written down and implemented the same way every single time.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What is the Job Plan Library?
  • Why we need a Job Plan Library?
  • Where do we start when building a Job Plan Library?
  • How should a Job Plan Library be organized?
  • And much more!

ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

SMRP18 – Planning and Scheduling with Jeff Shiver

SMRP18 – Planning and Scheduling with Jeff Shiver

Planning and Scheduling with Jeff Shiver

Planning and scheduling is a term often used in the organizations. It might be used together but there is a difference in ‘planning’ and ‘scheduling’. Planning is when you determine what jobs you have to do, develop a procedure to execute the job, assign resources, and then utilize those resources in the best way possible. Only when you have successfully planned a work-order, you can decide when to do it in the scheduling part. So both the processes go together and one can’t be completed successfully without the other. Only scheduling something is not going to help you successfully implement it.
ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

Reliability Integration into the Product Development Process

Reliability Integration into the Product Development Process

Enhancing Reliability Integration into the Product Development Process

One of the more significant challenges for reliability engineering in product development is complete execution of the planned reliability process in product development. The reliability tools and techniques outlined in the product plan are often skipped or delayed, minimizing the opportunity for outputs to impact the program and product fully. [Read more…]

by Leave a Comment

12 – The 7 Steps of a Work Management Cycle

The 7 Steps of a Work Managements Cycle

This episode of the weekly podcast is about Work Managements Cycle. WMC is the most basic framework any organization has in place to evaluate its performance and make improvements if needed. This cycle consists of 7-steps that when completed successfully make it possible to execute the Maintenance Plan and Scheduling Process. These steps are as follows:
ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

11 – What is a Well Written Job Plan?

What is a Well Written Job Plan?

This show of the podcast is based on Job Plans.

These job plans are documents that contain a step by step action routine for daily maintenance issues that arise in an organization. It is a procedural process that defines the performance standards for execution of day to day work.

These plans are improved over time as the technicians face issues in the field and give feedback on their experiences to the planner.

This leads to a job plan which has some safest and efficient ways to implement jobs in the field creating a good Knowledge Management System which works as a library for job plans.
ᐅ Play Episode

by Leave a Comment

10 – What Is Maintenance Planning & Scheduling?

What is Maintenance Planning & Scheduling?

This episode of the weekly podcast covers all the aspects of maintenance planning and scheduling.

Planning is one of the most time-consuming yet important activity if an organization needs anything done efficiently and effectively.

Any strategy or procedure needs planning and scheduling if it were to be implemented successfully.

A well-planned maintenance strategy not only ensures a good outcome but saves a lot of money and time.

Every industry uses this approach when delivering ahead of the deadlines can result in catastrophic results.

Now, this is one of the initial stages and any organization needs human and physical resources to accomplish these planned goals.

Planning definitely takes time but in the long run, you can manage to do more work in the given time which is the manifestation of the Parkinson’s Law.

It also helps in solving problems and avoid failures, because you can find out that what went wrong and how are you going to fix it as it is a step by step process.
ᐅ Play Episode