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This episode of the weekly podcast is about Work Managements Cycle. WMC is the most basic framework any organization has in place to evaluate its performance and make improvements if needed. This cycle consists of 7-steps that when completed successfully make it possible to execute the Maintenance Plan and Scheduling Process. These steps are as follows:
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Adam and Fred discussing the difference between Quality and Reliability.
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Adam and Fred discussing the words we use to communicate and define reliability.
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Adam and Fred discussing how “reliability maturity” of an organization can be evaluated.
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This show of the podcast is based on Job Plans.
These job plans are documents that contain a step by step action routine for daily maintenance issues that arise in an organization. It is a procedural process that defines the performance standards for execution of day to day work.
These plans are improved over time as the technicians face issues in the field and give feedback on their experiences to the planner.
This leads to a job plan which has some safest and efficient ways to implement jobs in the field creating a good Knowledge Management System which works as a library for job plans.
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Adam and Fred discussing the reliability of autonomous devices where a reliability failure may result in death.
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Andre and Fred discuss best practices in reliability prediction — if they exist. Specifically, the poor ability of parts count prediction approaches to estimate future reliability performance.
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Andre and Fred discuss the appropriate uses of a reliability prediction. The common methods are not to predict future field reliability performance.
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This episode of the weekly podcast covers all the aspects of maintenance planning and scheduling.
Planning is one of the most time-consuming yet important activity if an organization needs anything done efficiently and effectively.
Any strategy or procedure needs planning and scheduling if it were to be implemented successfully.
A well-planned maintenance strategy not only ensures a good outcome but saves a lot of money and time.
Every industry uses this approach when delivering ahead of the deadlines can result in catastrophic results.
Now, this is one of the initial stages and any organization needs human and physical resources to accomplish these planned goals.
Planning definitely takes time but in the long run, you can manage to do more work in the given time which is the manifestation of the Parkinson’s Law.
It also helps in solving problems and avoid failures, because you can find out that what went wrong and how are you going to fix it as it is a step by step process.
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Andre and Fred discussing reliability prediction standards. Specifically, something that is not based on the old handbooks tabulated data.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the situation when an organization has a business model that actively minimizes reliability.
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Tim Rodgers interviews Aaron concerning his podcast, E6S Methods Podcast concerning the application of lean and six sigma methods and the real-life challenges faced by quality professionals.
Kirk and Fred discuss working with suppliers to obtain the desired reliability performance. It starts with how you specify reliability. It must include sufficient detail so your supplier understands your request.
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Establishing a reliability goal for a project is often done early.
You may already know the reliability goal provides guidance to the entire development and supply chain team.
Yet, what is the actual value setting a reliability goal?
This episode of the weekly podcast covers the 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations.
The original equipment manufacturers provide a manual in which all the general instructions are provided in the form of an operating manual.
These can be helpful when someone is using the equipment for the first time but when the same apparatus has to be used in reputed organizations with a set-up of their own, this manual is not enough.
It is developed keeping in mind the general behavior of instruments and common environmental condition of workshops and laboratories.
Most of the times, manufacturers put together these recommendations considering the worst that can go wrong to cover their warranty policies.
That is why the organizations cannot rely only on this operating manual.
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