270 – Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg

Welcome Fred back to the podcast. Clients are starting to realize that they have to design their systems properly while paying attention to certain tradeoffs. However, tell us where they should start; whether to design for reliability or maintainability.

Before starting, the team has to look at their business goals and decide whether the acquisition of any system or a piece of equipment assists to that end. It has to be a business decision.

Pay attention to:

• The environment of usage
• The cost of ownership; is it going to be profitable?
• The usage rate of the tool
• Type and quality of the tool

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The Capabilities Trap with Simon Jagers

Welcome Simon back to the podcast. Simon is the founder of Samotics and has been involved in technology throughout his Career. Today we will talk about capabilities trap. Although briefly, tell us more about you:

Involved with technology, our guest focuses on: machine learning, and the conversion of data into information.

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Understanding & Communicating the Value of PMs with Rick Clonan

Welcome Rick Clonan who has been in maintenance for 30 years working both in defense and industry. More about Rick:

Currently at SMRP working as implementation and training manager.

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Managing Up with Bobby Lee

Welcome Bobby Lee who has been involved in maintenance engineering working for different companies in various capacities.

Bobby Lee started out as a maintenance apprentice and has risen through the ranks as a maintenance engineer for over 9 years.

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Asset Modeling with Dane Boers

Welcome Dane Boers who is the founder of Modeler. Our topic will be asset modelling.

More about Dane:

Dane started his career in mining then moved to consultancy before starting Modeler. The company was started to make reliability more efficient and automated because of the repetitive work he had observed.

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Moving from Paper to a CMMS with Jeff O’Brien

Welcome Jeff O’brien who is the cofounder of Zoidii CMMS

Jeff has worked with CMMS in manufacturing and consultancy for years and has currently launched their own application.

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Crucial Decision with Ryan Sitton

Welcome Ryan Sitton to the podcast. Ryan is the founder and CEO of Pinnacle Engineering and has spent a lot of time around reliability and production engineering. Notably, he is the author of “Crucial Decisions”; a book that we will discuss in the episode and how it applies to maintenance and reliability.

More about Ryan:

He has a mechanical engineering background and has worked at a gas company called Oxy and also worked as an Energy Regulator for the State of Texas. He has a PhD in Data Science and is the founder of Pinnacle Engineering.

Data Science has become an inevitable necessity in that; data plays a crucial role in what we tend to accomplish in our daily activities.

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Leadership with Rob Kalwarowsky

Welcome Rob back to the Podcast. You were the founder of Rob’s Reliability Project and later started working as a co-host of the Leadership Launchpad Podcast and Dismantling the High Performance Narrative. Although, tell us more about yourself.

Rob- Having worked in reliability for ten years- transitioning across manufacturing, mining, and presently in an oil pipeline, it is clear that the biggest gap in the industry is in leadership. This became apparent after the observation of shop floor teams in different sites. Some leadership teams rarely listened to them and that drove a lack of psychological safety.

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Why AI Fails with Matt Kirchner

Matt is the Chief Product Officer at Atonix Digital and is involved with AI, works on software packages, analytics etc. More about Matt:

He has a background in mechanical engineering and started off in a large firm where they offered remote monitoring services to power generating customers. They oversaw reliability and operational performance. Over time, the company started investing in software tools to facilitate better and more efficient monitoring. The firm then split and now a portion of it only focuses on operational intelligence tools.

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Why is it so hard to get Lubrication right with Bennett Fitch

Welcome Bennett who is the Director of Product Development at Noria Corporation.

Bennet has a background in Mechanical Engineering and worked in an oil analysis laboratory. Currently focuses on lubrication product development and has consulted for many plants enough to notice the common challenges

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Practical Implementation of Technology with Simon Jagers

Welcome Simon back to the podcast. He is the founder of Semiotic Lab; a company involved in predictive technology maintenance. Previously, he talked about monitoring electrical systems using online monitoring and wireless sensors. Our podcast today is about the practical implementation methods to optimize the benefits of these technologies in reliability. However, tell us more about what you do.

The focus has been on reliability using energy monitoring to improve sustainability for our clients. This has led to serving clients in the US, Canada, and has given us 3 global partners.

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Learning in COVID Times with Bill Leahy

Welcome Bill to the Podcast.

He has held different talks and training sessions around leadership, change management, PMs and many others.

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Reliability Misconceptions with Fred Schenkelberg

Welcome Fred to today’s episode. Our topic will be the misconceptions surrounding reliability. What is reliability?

The English dictionary defines reliability as the characteristic of trustworthiness or being able to adhere to a schedule and deliver as needed.

On the other hand, reliability in engineering encompasses functionality, probability of success, duration of continued delivery of that success, and work environment.

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Learning Communities with Ryan Chan

It is my pleasure to welcome Ryan Chan who is the founder of Upkeep. Ryan has done a lot of work in building online maintenance communities..

He went to University of California Berkeley and graduated as a chemical engineer. His first job was at a manufacturing company where he noticed several opportunities for improvement in the technology that was being utilized at the time.

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