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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, Interview’s reliability leader Will Bower in Episode 17 of this series. Will is the Director of Services with Maintain CM based in the United Kingdom. Will strives to help engineering mangers achieve reliability excellence through every channel that he can.
Creating specs for suppliers and producers is generally at the forefront of our thoughts about the activity. But, it’s also important to design for our QA friends, too, for inspection.
We talk about what acceptance sampling is all about. We also step through a thought process for identifying and creating design features for inspection using FMEA.
The word ‘sustainability’ is widely used and yet not always well understood. We chat with Pierre Vanderkelen, CEO at Fluitec about the different types of corporate ‘sustainabilities’ as well as the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how your company can advance each one.
We then chat with Greg Livingstone, Chief Innovation Officer at Fluitec about the several interesting findings on how turbine oils degrade, what chemistries provide optimum performance, and hints to the future of turbine oil formulations as well as ICML’s Varnish and Deposit Identification and Measurement (VIM) certification.
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Welcome Ryan Chan back to the podcast. Today we will discuss mobile work solutions.
In this episode we covered:
Chris and Fred discuss the whole idea of ‘demonstration testing’ … and how it may be ‘chronically’ overused or at least misunderstood. Heard of ‘demonstration testing’ and need to learn more?
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Chris and Fred discuss some of the issues you face when selecting a (potentially incorrect) model. And how much uncertainty still remains when you do. Hate statistics … but need a nice and easy introduction to this sort of stuff?
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In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Ricky Smith, Expert in Residence at UpKeep, back on the show! Ryan and Ricky discuss Maintenance Process Mapping — what it is, why it’s necessary, and how it can improve an organization’s maintenance function. Listen today!
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.
When designs fail we can take on damaging mindsets while we’re deciding our next steps, and this can lead us to bad decisions. We explore this and give some examples of pitfalls. We also talk about what to do within the design-realm to prepare for and combat those mindsets. Finally, I share my mantra when designing activities get tough with failures.
Changing leadership is hard, both within yourself and within an organization.
In this weeks episode we catch up with Rob Kalwarowsky and discuss leadership and how we can affect change both for ourselves and for our organizations.
Episode Shout Outs:
Robert Kalwarowsky – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/
https://highperformancenarrative.com/
https://www.elitehighperformance.com/leadership/
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Welcome our guests to the podcast. We are going to discuss Asset Answers in today’s episode. However, briefly about our guests:
Yanpei has a background in telecom and smart grid. Currently is working as a product leader at Asset Answers.
Manjish is the service lead for Asset Answers and has been in the maintenance and reliability for 15 years building CMMS and analytic software on top of the CMMS)
In this episode we covered:
Kirk and Fred discussing the challenges of failure analysis and reporting of the root cause of electronic system failures and corrective action to the consuming public
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Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failures during development.
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One thing that spending so much time online has highlighted is that there are a lot of good people out there with answers to most problems. Whether you are searching for lubrications issues, Planning and Scheduling help or guidance on how to carry out effective Root Cause Analysis, there are organizations that have proven results and help on these and many more topics.
When I look at what’s on offer today and the many offerings I’ve seen over the many years in Maintenance and Reliability I come to the conclusion that the problems haven’t really changed. This then leads me to ask – if these great tools are out there – then why are organizations plagued by the same problems?
The answer seems to be with the organizations and not the quality or amount of training and help available. When people return from training or when the trainer leaves the site – has the organization prepared the ground to plant these seeds of wisdom or are they just going to try and super-impose the new solution on their old problem.
Do they realize that to improve they need to change something and that the change needs to be managed – more often than not it’s the culture of an organization that causes the challenges – can they change that? Join me in this session to discuss ways to make the money and effort spent of training and development more effective – and so help your organization make the improvement it wants
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Don Yates in Episode 15 of this series. Mr. Donald Yates is a senior manufacturing executive with more than 40 years’ experience spearheading the rapid and sustained growth of leading manufacturing organizations. Mr. Yates gained his expertise in lean manufacturing by building effective teams, and formulating strategic reliability plans during his extraordinarily successful career in several leadership roles.