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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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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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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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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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.
In the quality world, kaizen is a tool for continuous improvement under the umbrella of a Lean philosophy. The quality-tool kaizen is just one layer of a larger, overarching idea that we benefit from small, incremental improvements made consistently.
Kaizen as a tool involves all employees of the company toward continuous improvement. The way kaizen events are done helps to promote the continuous improvement philosophy throughout the business through its effect on culture, time, proof, and teamwork. We talk more about how this all fits together in the podcast.
“What is the next generation of maintenance?” The answer to that question lays squarely within our control. “As technology gives birth to new ways of working, those who are unable to access new technology will fall behind, while those with the resources needed to build and deploy it will enjoy ever greater success. “
AI will augment innate human traits like creativity and sensitivity in ways that will allow us to solve new problems and redefine the future of maintenance. In this session we’ll discuss how we all can take an active role in defining what the next generation of maintenance is, how it’s valued and how it’s done.
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
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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Worthington Assembly’s Chris Denney speaks about the electronic contract manufacturing business.
• How to select an appropriate contract manufacturer
• Evaluating a contract manufacturer’s capabilities
• Mistakes made when selecting a contract manufacturer
• Advantages and disadvantages of selecting a US-based contract manufacturer
Chris may be contacted here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com
Worthington Assembly’s website:
https://www.worthingtonassembly.com
Welcome Shane who is the author of Decoding Mechanical Failures. More about Shane and Steel Image:
Shane is a mechanical engineer who founded Steel Image, whose primary business is analyzing information on broken parts: how it failed, mechanisms of failure, and whether the part was built correctly or not.
They avail all this information to aid those conducting RCAs.
In this episode we covered:
Carl and Fred discussing methods for selecting reliability recommendations, following the process used to develop effective reliability plans.
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of prioritizing tasks, both in life, and in the field of reliability engineering.
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