In this episode we covered:

• What do you consider a bolted joint?
• How do we normally determine if a bolt is ‘properly in place’?
• How do we measure clamping force?

In this episode we covered:

• What were the things you were seeing people asking about at that conference?
• What does the future look like for the reliability industry?
• 2022 Conference Plans!

In this episode we covered:

• Why are electrical reliability or electrical assets neglected?
• What are the major types of transformers?
• If we detect a high level of moisture in the oil, do we change the oil or is it a little more complicated than that?

In this episode we covered:

• What is RBI – Risk-Based Inspection?
• When would organizations want to leverage risk-based inspections over RCM or something else?
• Why do organizations want to go about implementing RBI process?

In this episode we covered:

• How many ways can we?
• What is soft foot?
• If we’re going to perform a proper installation, we got to consider soft foot. Is that before or after we do an alignment?

In this episode we covered:

• What is a metric to begin with?
• Why do organizations really use metrics?
• With all these challenges, how do organizations either pick the right metrics or use them properly?

In this episode we covered:

• What’s happening in electrical reliability?
• What are people doing now that they weren’t doing even five years ago?
• Are you seeing data being used well on the electrical side?

In this episode we covered:

• What type of trends are you seeing in maintenance lately?
• The maintenance community’s been going strong for a year now, what prompted Upkeep to start the maintenance community to begin with?
• Did you intend to make sure that there was diversity and inclusion built into it before you launched, or did that just happen organically?

In this episode we covered:

• What is the biggest challenge that you have experienced in leading people and teams and developing that culture overall?
• In your book, ‘Love is a Business Strategy,’ you talk about putting people at the center of work. What does that mean and how does that relate to overcoming some of these challenges?
• Why would organizations that are traditionally focused on the triple bottom line want to put people at the center of work?

In this episode we covered:

• What is an HVAC system?
• How do you ensure that HVAC systems are operating at optimum efficiency?
• Now, if we’re doing all those basic things, what needs to be done when we’re moving from a cooling to a heating season, or maybe a heating season to a cooling season?

In this episode we covered:

• What would you define as a CMMS implementation?
• Is that the definition of successful implementation or is there more or less to it?
• What steps or process have you seen or utilized to make sure that we get that successful implementation?

In this episode we covered:

• What are some of the things you see going on with FMEAs that we really got to pay attention to?
• So how do we get that engagement then?
• Some people get hung up on some of the corrective actions or preventative actions coming out, right?

In this episode we covered:

• When we talk about technology evolution, is it similar to how people, animals, reptiles evolve as well? Or is it something completely different?
• Why is it useful to understand that algorithm?
• What influences the growth of technologies?

In this episode we covered:

• I see a lot of people working remote, maybe not full-time, but part-time as reliability engineers, is this the new normal and can they effectively do their job working remote?
• Is this identifying gaps in that data that we’ve overcome in other ways, or is it increasing the demand for different types of data?
• How has the facilitation changed, for example, for facilitating RCA or FMEA, if you’ve seen that done remotely? Well, have you heard of it being done well?