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In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we’ll be doing another Community Question Round-Up, where we review questions submitted by members in our Maintenance Community Slack Group and hear insight from one of our Maintenance Experts in Residence, the Reliability Sherpa himself — Ramesh Gulati. Listen today!
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My guests Cheryl Tulkoff and Greg Caswell discuss their new book “DESIGN FOR EXCELLENCE IN ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING” (published by Wiley and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Wiley).
Cheryl Tulkoff may be reached here:
ctulkoff@gmail.com
Greg Caswell may be reached here:
greg.caswell@ansys.com
It is my pleasure to welcome Andrew Keller to the podcast. He is the Managing Director for Rams Men Taught in Germany.
I’ve trained as a materials engineer, having spent approximately 20 years working in different aspects of reliability engineering from failure analysis to risk-based inspection, to design. He has experience in all aspects of reliability engineering. He is now self-employed, helping and targeting process plant engineers.
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Chris and Fred discuss … MTBFs! Fred’s favorite! We (should) know that Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is not reliability. So what do we do if we somehow need to get reliability from nothing but the MTBF.
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Paul Dufresne has been president and CEO of Reliability Playbook since 2017, following 31 years of experience in maintenance and reliability roles in the U.S. Military and at Georgia Pacific, Trico Corporation and Koch Industries. After the military, he spent the next several years in the corporate world designing and implementing reliability and maintenance programs focusing on industry best practices and achieving superior results while serving in a variety of roles in maintenance management and reliability leadership. In 2013, he received the Senior VP Award for Reliability from GP.
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Chris and Fred discuss what the purpose of a ‘Body of Knowledge’ or BOK is? … or what is a BOK? … especially when it comes to reliability?
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews CEO Jason Tranter in Episode 23 of this series. Jason Tranter is the founder and CEO of Mobius Institute.
When we’ve identified a risk to our design or user process – and that risk can pose a potential harm – how many controls do we need to add?
We discuss prevention vs. detection controls, ALARP, as low as possible, and some scenarios where we could (and maybe couldn’t) justify a risk as acceptable without adding additional controls.
In this week’s episode a replay in which Blair welcomes Sunil Vedula and Graham Kawulka of NanoPrecise Corp, and Dean Stephens of Benchmark Reliability Services to talk about the value of precision and confidence when it comes to wireless vibration condition monitoring. NanoPrecise hardware and software are challenging the value of both precision and confidence in one solution.
You can connect with our Guest here:
Sunil Vedula –linkedin.com/in/sunil-vedula-844a0917
Graham Kawulka –linkedin.com/in/graham-kawulka-0b851122
Dean Stephens –linkedin.com/in/dean-stephens-mmp-cmrp-crl-a7144813
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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It’s my pleasure to welcome back Peter Horsburgh. He is the author of the ‘Five Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers.’ He has a long history within reliability engineering. He essentially started in manufacturing, then moved to mining, then to power generation, and to aluminum smelting.
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Carl and Fred discussing the challenges associated with implementing reliability programs.
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Discussing Leadership with Bryan Bieschke, CMRP, Director, Maintenance & Reliability at T. Parker Host.
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RCM has been around for a long time, yet we still see the same issues over and over again. Why is that?
This week we welcome Jim Vantyghem & Rob Kalwarowsky to the show to talk about the human side of maintenance.
Episode Shout Outs:
Jim – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-vantyghem-3338a320/
Rob – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/
Leadership Launchpad – https://www.elitehighperformance.com/leadership/
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
https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted
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 Maintenance Mavericks, we have Mark Benak on the show! Mark is a technology entrepreneur who holds a ton of experience and industry knowledge. Ryan and Mark discuss the difference between maintenance and reliability, ensuring optimal maintenance strategies for safety and reliability, and much more! Listen today!
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I spoke with Dave Trail from Arch Systems about Industry 4.0.
Dave may be reached here:
mailto:dtrail@archsys.io
808-868-8298