MD 172 Leadership, Psychological Safety & Mental Health with Lucas Marino & Rob Kalwarowsky

On this bonus episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Rob Kalwarowsky joins Lucas Marino on an EAST Partnership LinkedIn Live. We discuss leadership, psychological safety & mental health.

If you want a psychological safety assessment for your organization or your team, reach out to Rob at rob@highperformancenarrative.com

Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/

Connect with Lucas Marino on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-marino-deng/

Follow High Performance Narrative on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/highperformancenarrative/

Follow Dismantling the High Performance Narrative on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/high-performance-narrative

Check out highperformancenarrative.com

DISCLAIMER: We want to let you know this episode covers some sensitive subjects such as mental health and depression. If you’re going through a difficult time right now, or if you know someone struggling with depression, we hope this episode will help you navigate these tough conversations. If you’re ever experiencing suicidal thoughts, please reach out to your support system or call 1-800-273-8255 where you’ll be connected with a specialist from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

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TMC S3:E15 Aaron Schultz

Aaron Schultz

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Podcast, we have Aaron Schultz on the show! Aaron holds over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, and has gained a ton of valuable insight on how to work with organizations to improve their reliability culture. In this episode, Aaron shares with Ryan these insights and so much more! Listen today!
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TLC 011 Leadership Connection Interview with Cliff Williams

Leadership Connection Interview Cliff Williams

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Cliff Williams in Episode 11 of this series. Cliff has had a successful career in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management spanning four decades and industries from Steel, Pulp and Paper and food and beverage giants Coca Cola and Kraft. He has recently retired as the Corporate Maintenance and Reliability manager for a Canadian based chemical manufacturer where he guided the performance at 10 facilities.

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QDD 015 Using the Pareto Principle and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Using the Pareto Principle and Avoiding Common Pitfalls

The likeness of the Pareto Principle can be compared to Murphy’s Law and the Peter Principle: it’s a curious phenomenon. So, how did it make its way into quality? If using it to make decisions, there are some common pitfalls which can lead to delays in fixing a problem or even misdirect our efforts. So, what is it, and how can we use it for design?

Get to know the Pareto Chart. If it’s built and applied properly, it can help us prioritize: root cause analysis, new design features based on user input, or to help us tackle a problem that just seems too big to even start (just to name a few examples).

We review the Pareto Principle, what a Pareto Chart is, what we need to consider when building one, and how we need to be careful when interpreting its results.

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RM 072: A Conversation About Thermal Profiling with ECD’s Mark Waterman

A Conversation About Thermal Profiling with ECD’s Mark Waterman

ECD’s Mark Waterman discusses thermal profiling best practices.

• Common mistakes made when using profilers
• In-use best practices
• Common applications

Mark may be reached here:
mailto:mwaterman@ecd.com

ECD’s Website:
https://www.ecd.com

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271 – Developing Operational Standards with George Williams and Joe Anderson

Welcome Joe Anderson and George Williams back to the podcast. They are the founders of ReliabilityX and are consultants as well as trainers.

Briefly about them and Reliability X:

Reliability X covers all aspects of reliability; both operational and maintenance, coaching and currently creating online classes.

Joe Anderson has been in the pharma and food industries for 25 years before moving to consultancy.

George Williams has a background in pharma and medical devices rising from a technician over the years to a global reliability manager.

In this episode we covered:

What are operational standards?
Why would we need operational standards?
Who develops standards?

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MD 171 State of Work with Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky

On this episode, Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky talk about The Great Resignation, the state of work and why Leadership 2.0 is the only path forward.

Special Offer! We are giving away 10 free Fearless Organization Scans & Debriefs. If you’re one of the first 10 people to ask Susan or Rob about the scan, you can get one for your team! Reach out to Rob here – rob@highperformancenarrative.com or Susan at susan@elitehighperformance.com

If you want a private offering of The Leadership Launchpad Project program at your site, email rob@highperformancenarrative.com

Follow The Leadership Launchpad Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-leadership-launchpad-project

Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/

Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/

Check out – elitehighperformance.com/leadership

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SOR 673 Safety – Binary or Variable

Safety – Binary or Variable

Abstract

Carl and Fred discuss the subject of safety. Specifically whether an item or device can be considered safe or not safe (binary), or whether there are degrees of safety (variable).
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SOR 672 Make or Check Reliability

Make or Check Reliability

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘making’ and ‘checking’ reliability. And there is a difference. This podcast follows on from Chris’s article about a US Department of Defense (DoD) quick reference guide on a ‘Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Body of Knowledge.’ The problem with this document was it was all about ‘checking’ reliability – and not enough ‘making’ reliability.
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Fault Tolerance

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

There comes a time in everyone’s reliability ‘journey’ where it is either too hard or too expensive to keep perfecting your product, system or service. Steel can only be ‘so’ pure. Clearances can only be ‘so’ accurate. Surfaces can only be ‘so’ smooth. And software can only be ‘so’ perfect. In fact it might turn out to be better and cheaper to have two ‘average’ components with one acting as a backup to the other. The ‘premium’ component might be too expensive or otherwise not as reliable as the backup system. Welcome to fault tolerance! This is where we design products, systems or services to be able to handle faults, imperfections, deviations, errors and lots of other things. [Read more…]

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TMC S3:E14 Community Question Round-Up No.2 with Ramesh and Ryan

Community Question Round-Up No.2 with Ramesh and Ryan

In this week’s special episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, 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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TLC 010 Leadership Connection Interview with Jason Hartman

Leadership Connection Interview Jason Hartman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Jason Hartman in Episode 10 of this series. Jason has held many roles in leadership and currently is a top leader, leading teams in a diverse number of plant operations roles including production management, project management, facility leadership, maintenance management, reliability leadership, and manufacturing engineering.

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QDD 014 The Who’s Who of your Quality Team

The Who’s Who of your Quality Team

I’m a fan of cross-functional teams. My main reason is that the different perspectives that each person brings from their respective areas of the business helps create a more complete vision of product and performance risk. Part of quality (and design!) means assessing and managing risk, and I’ve seen time and again the power of bringing people together: better understanding, greater alignment, and improved designs (to name just a few).

Part of being an effective team member is knowing what the other teammates are responsible for doing. It’s important because we need to know who to ask or interface with at certain points in our design process.

This podcast is about Who’s Who of your Quality Team. A Quality Engineer or Reliability Engineer may be part of a cross-functional team for a project. A Supplier Quality Professional, Calibration Technician, Quality Technician, and Quality Inspector may not be, but they are performing functions and duties that have an effect on the success of a product design. The podcast gets into who does what in these Quality roles, and why designers should involve them during the design process.

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MD 170 The Tools in the Reliability Tool Box W/ Chris Defalco

What are the tools in the reliability tool box? Are they being used properly? How could they be utilized better?

In this episode Steve & Blair welcome Chris Defalco to the show to discuss some of the tools in the reliability tool box. We learn about some tools that are out there and how they can be used better.

Episode Shout Outs:

Chris Defalco – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdefalco/

Itus Digital – https://www.itusdigital.com/

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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/

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270 – Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg

Welcome Fred back to the podcast. Clients are starting to realize that they have to design their systems properly while paying attention to certain tradeoffs. However, tell us where they should start; whether to design for reliability or maintainability.

Before starting, the team has to look at their business goals and decide whether the acquisition of any system or a piece of equipment assists to that end. It has to be a business decision.

Pay attention to:

The environment of usage
The cost of ownership; is it going to be profitable?
The usage rate of the tool
Type and quality of the tool

In this episode we covered:

Understanding the tradeoffs is essential while keeping the important things in mind. Where do we place time and resources? Reliability or maintainability?
Once they have chosen to rely on data and experience? Where do they start in designing for maintenance or reliability?
Create basic standards. Otherwise, the advanced things like the right model shall not matter. Basic aspects such as a complete bill of material that can be uploaded on to the CMMS, documentation should be taken into account.

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