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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…]
Carl and Fred take on the subject of Risk Priority Number, also called RPN, when used in FMEA. Is RPN a good way to prioritize risk in an FMEA, or is there a better way?
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Thomas J. Moriarty, PE, CMRP is president of Alidade Maintenance Engineering and Reliability, Inc. (Alidade MER). Founded in 2004, its mission is to help others lead full and satisfying lives through organizational reliability and productive leadership; particularly in physical asset management, operations, maintenance and reliability engineering.
Kirk and Fred discussing the expectations of reliability of their own vehicles and some of the wear out mechanisms we expect.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Thomas Boehm in Episode 27 of this series. Thom H. Boehm is a knitting machine technician at Stanfield’s Ltd., a textile mill in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. He has worked there for the last 20 years, and before that was an English teacher in Japan. At Stanfield’s, although down in old textile lingo as a knitter/fixer, he does whatever needs to be done to keep the room functioning as well as possible, and this includes repairing and maintaining a host of different styles of circular knitting machines.
Good reliability requirements are going to drive our design decisions relating to the concept, the components, the materials, and other stuff. So, the moment to start defining reliability requirements is early in the design process. But, what makes a well-defined reliability requirement? There are five aspects it should cover: do you know what they are?
We’ll describe what makes a good reliability requirement and examples of common (but not good) requirements.
A joint episode with Rafe Britton of Lubrication Expert on Industry 4.0 & Tech Trends in Maintenance.
Follow Lubrication Expert here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lubrication-expert/
Follow Rafe Britton here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafe-britton/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted. If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com
Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have a special panel episode co-hosted by Gary Wood, U.S. Army Ranger and UpKeep Senior Implementation Manager. To celebrate Veterans Day, we invite you to spend time with four Veterans who have transitioned from the US Armed Forces to a successful career in maintenance and reliability. Please join us to hear their stories of service, their unique perspective on how they prepared for their transition, and why you should hire a veteran.
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It’s my pleasure to welcome back Simon Jaegers to the podcast.
He is one of the founders of Samotics in 2015. His professional career has been spent in technology, usually evolving around either making data, storing it, or processing it. Samotics provides condition monitoring technology based on electrical signature analysis.
In this episode we covered:
Kirk and Fred discussing a very important question in all of unreliability.
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