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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘risk’ is. Or what most people think ‘risk’ is. Or what the experts think ‘risk’ is. Or what ‘risk’ feels like. Do you know what ‘risk’ is?
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Suzane Greeman in Episode 26 of this series. Suzane Greeman is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions, a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a senior asset management consultant and instructor in North America working with clients who manage assets in excess of $75 Billion. She has over 23 years of experience across several asset management disciplines and has implemented asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment, airport, and maritime transportation assets.
We have good requirements for the reliability of our design. We also have a preliminary design with ideas of how we’re going to manufacture it. Is our design idea good enough? Are there things we should do to improve its performance and reliability?
For a physical product, there are three general stages in its life cycle. In many cases the failure rates of physical products can be represented by a reliability bathtub curve. This curve is really a plot of a hazard rate function, also known as a failure rate function. We talk about data collection in the early design phase, what types of failures are typical for each phase, and design decisions we may make to improve our reliability, based on the failure rate function we plot for our system.
Besides building your product inside your customer’s facility, your product will require some form of transportation to move from your factory to your customer. When your product doesn’t work ‘out of the box’, that is considered ‘not good’ for customer satisfaction.
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Is safety one of your companies core values? What is a core value? How can we actually improve safety?
Safety is always a topic at the forefront of maintenance tasks. Are we taking the correct approach to safety? Or is there a better way? This week we welcome Tanya Hewitt to the show to discuss her company, Beyond Safety Compliance. We learned a lot talking with Tanya and we are very excited to bring this episode to you.
Episode Shout Outs:
Tanya Hewitt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-hewitt-55804529/
Beyond Safety Compliance: https://www.beyondsafetycompliance.ca/
Webinar Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/beyond-safety-compliance-31631619159
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
My guest today is Paul Salerno. Paul holds an MBA with specialization in finance and marketing from Rutgers Graduate School of Business. He is the Global Portfolio Manager at MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions with expertise in product lifecycle management and development of strategic technology roadmaps for the global surface mount technology business. Paul works with customers in both Europe and Asia with customers in automotive, computing, communications and consumer electronic markets.
Paul and I discuss soldering materials including “high reliability” solder paste, low and ultra-low solder pastes, and design-for-use solder paste selection processes.
Paul may be reached here:
Paul Salerno
Portfolio Manager, SMT
Assembly Solutions
Paul.Salerno@MacDermidAlpha.com
It’s my pleasure to welcome back Fred Schenkel Berg to the podcast.
In this episode we covered:
In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Shweta Saxena, CEO of MachineMax, on the show! Ryan and Shweta explore the topic of technological innovation — especially in the mining and construction industry — and how critical it is for the industry to adopt and adapt to new technology. Listen today!
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On this episode, I spoke with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly and IPC Technical Program Co-Chairs Stan Rak (SF Rak Company) and Bev Christian (HDP User Group) about the upcoming IPC APEX Expo 2022 live technical conference.
We discuss the following topics:
• IPC’s “Factory of the Future Pavilion”
• IPC’s 3-Hour Professional Development Courses (31 courses!)
• IPC’s Technical Program (4 technology tracks each with 29 technical presentations.
• IPC’s Poster Sessions
IPC APEX Expo 2022 takes place January 22-27 in San Diego, CA.
More information is available here:
IPC APEX Expo 2022
https://www.ipcapexexpo.org/
Professional Development Course information is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/uzwwe49b
Technical Conference info is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/2bpcxpzp
Chris and Fred discuss a real-world problem … how do we use reliability engineering tools to work out how select a hospital power supply system.
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-Graduated from Carthage College with a Degree in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Business
-Work for Caterpillar, Inc. for 5 Years in a newly developed Asset Management Team focused in the Mining division. Worked with Regional Teams to gather data on major component life cycles and repair standards. This data was used to develop Total Cost of Ownership models to assist with life cycle costing on new and existing equipment. Caterpillar was also where he got his first taste of Continuous Improvement through their Green Belt Certification process.
James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Shami Mudunkotuwa in Episode 25 of this series. Shami is is a product of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka and a Chartered Engineer currently working for Ceylon Electricity Board.
Flowcharting isn’t just useful for manufacturing processes. We can use them in lots of ways to help us with design of products and to identify quality characteristics. After all, products are used by people, and the way in which they use them is a process.
We also talk about specific flowchart analyses and how they can be used to analyze the user process for design.
When you combine friction measurement with ultrasound and IoT, you get a game-changer for remote friction-based lubrication.
This week we welcome Chris Hallum from UE Systems to the show to talk all about ultrasound and the OnTrak SmartLube
Episode Shout Outs:
Chris Hallum – https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhallum/
UE Systems SmartLube: https://www.uesystems.com/ontrak-smartlube/
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/