What a Plant Consists of with Scott Kelley

In today’s episode, the guest Scott Kelley tells the audience about the importance of a plant in the asset management model. The plant cell is not just limited to the physical assets of the organization but it also includes the methods, risk evaluation, and mitigation strategies which you need to take care of to keep your plant performing at its best. The physical assets, facilities, and the equipment that you are using play a critical role when you need your plant to be working successfully. To accomplish this, you will need an asset management plan which should answer the following questions; what to maintain? How to maintain? When to maintain? Why maintain? Who will maintain? How and where to document the information? What is the cost involved? What are the consequences of non-maintenance? Now there are some facets that need to be kept in mind while planning for the asset management especially your plant.
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Importance of People in an Asset Management Model with Scott Kelley

In this episode, the guest Scott Kelley explains the role of the people component in the asset management model. Asset management is the most effective way of making the best use of investment and improve the production level of any organization. There are total six components in the model; people, plant, processes, policies and procedures, performance, and proactive maintenance. The people factor is of top priority among all of these factors. Why is the people component most important? Well, considering even if you have excelled in every other cell, you are going to need people to manage all of these and above all well trained and skillful people to make this work. Now, this cell in the model contains things such as organizational development, organizational structure, continuous improvement, change management, and operational excellence.
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Stakeholder Analysis and Management with Tara Holwegner

In today’s episode, the guest Tara Holwegner explains the role of stakeholders and the management in an organization. It is very common that many new projects and big initiatives take place in the organizations but most of these don’t succeed or generate results as expected even if they have the potential. The problem in these cases is the little transfer of information, lack of communication, and incoherent business objectives. [Read more…]

Utilizing Multiple Layers of Protection with Fred Schenkelberg

In today’s episode, the agenda of discussion is utilizing multiple layers of protection for the products or assets of an organization. The plant itself and some other resources are very critical to the value of production of bigger companies. They can’t afford to have a failure because of the tight deadlines and allocation of specific budgets. That’s why it is always a good practice to have backups and their backups as well.
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The Role of Reliability Assessments with Dan Anderson

In this episode, the guest Dan Anderson explains the role of Reliability Assessments in the organizations. Whenever an organization starts its journey towards the reliability excellence, it has to start by considering some things. One of the very first steps is to create awareness among all the employees. The workforce needs to understand and learn about the goals and objectives of the organization. Now once the employees have sufficient understanding, they should be ready to cooperate in any way organization needs them for a better and long term reliability plan.
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The Role of Certifications in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

In this episode, the topic of discussion is the role of certifications in maintenance and reliability. When it comes to knowledge, skills, and abilities, there is no boundary of course but being a certified professional is worth more than just being a technical person. It not only reflects a better resume but it also works as a proof in the reviews and portfolios that the person has all the basic knowledge about the job he is doing.
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The Importance of Proper Installation: Starting with Pulley & Sprocket Alignment with John Lambert

In this episode of the weekly podcast, the guest John lambert is talking about the condition based maintenance which means that you can take maintenance measures based upon the condition of your equipment. In simple words, you can maintain your equipment by analyzing the installation process, alignment of the equipment, and that sort of factors.
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The Role of Training in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

Today’s episode is about the role of training in affecting change. Sometimes you need to train the workforce to work better than the beginners but that completely depends on the culture of the organization and skills, knowledge, and abilities of the employees working out there.
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Designing for Maintainability with Fred Schenkelberg

This episode of the weekly podcast covers the need of designing for maintainability. It is one of the biggest processes involved in the area of reliability and helps in improving the availability of the equipment in time. So first of all, we need to understand what this term is —and the tools and techniques that are required to make it successful.
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Managing Spare Parts: A Discussion with Fred Schenkelberg

This episode of the weekly podcast gives a detailed insight about spare parts. First of all, a technician should know whether to repair the equipment or replace it. For this, he needs to have some failure data to help him improve his handling strategy. Next question here is that which spare parts do we need to stock? The answer for this can be obtained on the basis of analysis mechanisms such as Failure mode and Effects Analysis or data collected through other reliability measures.
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8D Problem Solving with Fred Schenkelberg

In today’s episode, the topic of the discussion is 8D problem solving. When it comes to problem-solving, there are a lot of procedures and techniques out there but what most of the engineers and reliability professional use is the Eight Disciplines problem solving. It is step by step approach to finding the root cause of the problem and then resolve it effectively and systemically. To perform this method, you need to have a team of different experts in place as it is not the job of a single person. Then, you can start solving issues in the following steps.

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The Importance of the Asset Management Model with Scott Kelley

In today’s podcast, the guest is Scott Kelley and the episode covers the importance of the asset management model. Asset management is not just about having a tactical solution to every problem, you need a strategic model as well which is necessary to be implemented and accepted at all levels of the organization by every working individual. Now for a good model, it needs to have following characteristics.
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Failure data and the CMMS with John Reeve

In today’s episode, the guest is John Reeve and the agenda of discussion is failure data and CMMS. As everyone knows that to maintain and solve issues with the equipment you need to get all the basic data or information available. Computerized maintenance management system helps greatly in this task but first of all, you have to know exactly what kind of data are you looking for and what it means. Now failure data can be anything related to your asset that is the foundation data or then transactional data comes which includes the processing data related to the asset such as the actual cost. Now, next thing to understand is the failure mode which consists of the failed component, component problem and cause code. Once you have this failure data, it becomes very easy to run the basic failure analysis which is necessary at certain levels.
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The ABC’s of Asset Management with Scott Kelley

In today’s episode, our guest is Scott Kelley and the discussion is about the ABC’s of the asset management. Most of the organizations fail in the implementation of this process or they don’t get good results. That’s why they need to follow the ABC’s of Asset Management. These are:

A – Always have the “RIGHT” executive sponsor

B – Before you begin have a vision or model of the finished product or outcome

C – CONSTANT & CONSISTENT implementation.

These principles are key to the success of any Asset Management Program.

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