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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 guides the entire development and supply chain team.
Yet, what is the actual value of 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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Kirk and Fred discuss how competing business priorities create obstacles to achieving desired reliability objectives. The culture of your organization may limit your ability as a reliability professional to do your job effectively.
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Review RCM is a streamlined approach to improving plant performance.
It allows organizations to quickly address ineffective PM programs. How does it achieve this?
By using the operating environment, failure patterns, and P-F interval, we can answer three basic questions:
These three elements will help us to determine the type of PM strategy that is value-added.
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Tim and Fred discussing warranty charge backs.
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Carl and Fred discussing the nuances of communicating with management.
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