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In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Larry Wigger, supply chain management expert and Assistant Teaching Professor at UMKC, on the show! Larry and Ryan discuss a hot topic in today’s world: the disruption in our global supply chain. Listen now!
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relationship between reliability, the fundamental limits of technology, and safety.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Drew Troyer in Episode 28 of this series.
Drew brings nearly 30 years experience and thought leadership in the fields of manufacturing reliability engineering and physical asset management. He believes that most organizations in the physical asset-intensive industries have a tremendous opportunity to improve the uptime, profitability, safety and environmental performance of their plants and physical assets with a dedicated focus on reliability-driven practices.
In this episode we review sampling for design tests. We talk through a generic thought process for choosing a statistically relevant sample size and propose some basics that we can all learn about to better understand sampling.
Our goal is for us to be able to better talk through a sampling scenario with our quality and reliability engineering friends, and to better prepare for the information that they’re going to want to know when asked, “How many do we need to test?”
It’s my pleasure to welcome Joseph Schmitt to the podcast. He is a VP of customer success at Upkeep. The team focused on deploying and implementing upkeep at new locations.
Our customer success team is focused on driving the post onboarding relationship. It’s really honing in on adoption and making sure that customers are successful using the tool, and then also our technical support team.
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s experience with a new pinball machine’s component failures and the manufacturer.
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Michelle Ledet Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions where she has spent the past 25 years helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using a game-based simulation. Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site’s reliability improvement efforts. Co-authoring various articles and the book Level 5 – Leadership at Work, the sequel to the popular Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It, Michelle has become a thought leader on the emerging and often misunderstood topic of defect elimination.
In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Rick Clonan, maintenance expert and co-author of the book Engineer’s Guide to Preventive Maintenance: Mitigating Asset Risks Through Preventive Action on the show! Rick and Ryan discuss topics surrounding the data that’s necessary to leverage PM optimization and mitigate risk, both in an organization and on a larger scale. Listen now!
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Carl and Fred discussing the underlying mechanisms of failure, and how they impact our analysis and understanding of reliability.
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It costs our customers to own our designed products. It costs them initially to purchase it, but it also costs them to use it, maintain it, repair it, and eventually dispose of it. And it costs our company in ways too, like processing, training requirements for customers, and warranty repair costs.
Life cycle costing can help our team choose between design alternatives, like alternate design options, features, manufacturing methods, or suppliers.
Do you know what a false positive is? How about a false negative? Do you know how that going to affect your predictive maintenance program?
This week’s episode Blair and Steve chat with Nanoprecise’s Sunil Vedula & Graham Kawulka about this topic! Tune in and learn what false positives and negatives are and how they will affect your monitoring program. At the same time learn a bit more about the Nanoprecise solution and how it can support your organization.
Episode Shout Outs:
Sun Vedula – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-vedula-844a0917/
Graham Kawulka – https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-kawulka-0b851122/
www.nanoprecise.io
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Chris Colson, Principal at Allied Reliability, and co-author of Clean, Green, and Reliable: A Sustainable Reliability Guide For Industrial Plants on the show! While the benefits of equipment reliability are most noted for reducing the cost of maintenance, Chris and Ryan discuss the benefits of reliable assets that reach far beyond cost and into environmental, social and governance practices. Listen now!
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Miles Moreau is KIC’s General Manager, has been with KIC for nearly three decades. He draws his deep and rich expertise from managing multiple business units across four continents spanning operations, field service, and sales and marketing channels. His expertise is in thermal management and that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about today.
We’ve discussed how to profile a board on this show. Today, we’re going to talk about profiling an oven and a wave soldering machine, and how, when done correctly, may reduce the number of times one has to attach thermocouples to a circuit board and run it through an oven or wave soldering machine.
Miles’ Contact Information:
Miles Moreau
mmoreau@kicmail.com
https://kicthermal.com
It’s my pleasure to welcome Bobby Lee back to the podcast.
He is a reliability engineer with irritation. He spent quite a bit of time working on FMEA’s equipment, maintenance plans, RCAs, etc. He has spent about 10 years as a maintenance technician and a reliability engineer.
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What is ‘supportability?’ Easy! It’s the ability of your product, system or service to be supported. But how do we get this so wrong so often? Well, the first way is by thinking that supportability is actually some activity where you work out how many spares you need to have on your shelf to last a year (for example). But what if your product, system, or service fails so often and is so difficult to repair that it needs LOTS of spare parts? Working this out doesn’t make it more supportable. Another way people get supportability wrong is by thinking about it AFTER you have designed something. How is this wrong? Well … supportability needs to be DESIGNED INTO your product, system, or service. [Read more…]