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MD 162 Empowering Leaders in Industry with Charli Matthews

MD 162 Empowering Leaders in Industry with Charli Matthews

MD 162 Empowering Leaders in Industry with Charli Matthews

On this episode, Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky welcome Charli Matthews to the show.  We talk about empowering leaders and impact!

Want to become a high-impact leader?  Go to robsreliability.com/leadership and sign up for The Leadership Launchpad Project High Impact Leader program.

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 Charli Matthews on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlimatthews/

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 – robsreliability.com/leadership

 

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TLC 002 Leadership Connection Interview with George Parada

TLC 002 Leadership Connection Interview with George Parada

Leadership Connection Interview with George Parada

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader George Parada in Episode 2 of this series. George has spent his career working in the food and beverage industry and is currently the Global Asset Management & Ops Readiness Manager at Facebook.

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RM 068: An Interview with Me (Mike Konrad) on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney and Melissa Hough

RM 068: An Interview with Me (Mike Konrad) on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney and Melissa Hough

An Interview with Me (Mike Konrad) on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney and Melissa Hough

Episode 68:

I was privileged to be a guest on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney (Worthington Assembly) and Melissa Hough (CircuitHub). This is the first of a two-part interview.

In this episode we are joined by Mike Konrad to chat about board cleaning. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents. Their board cleaning equipment assists manufacturers with increasing product reliability while saving both water and energy, reducing the industry’s environmental impact.

In addition to being the President of Aqueous Technologies, he is also a fellow podcaster and runs the Reliability Matters Podcast, which discusses reliability of circuit assemblies, reliability “best practices” and success stories.

In the first part of this conversation we delve into the history of board cleaning, the electronics the industry’s transition to primarily using no-clean flux, and why more and more companies are reintroducing board cleaning back into their assembly process.

If you want to listen to us get into the nitty gritty details of how to implement a proper circuit board cleaning process, make sure to listen to the second half of this episode.

Chris Denney may be reached here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com

Melissa Hough may be reached here:
melissa@circuithub.com

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QDD 006 HALT! Watch out for that weakest link

QDD 006 HALT! Watch out for that weakest link

HALT! Watch out for that weakest link

HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) uses the weakest link mentality. We apply stresses beyond what our designs would normally see in the environment to make something fail. It’s meant to be an iterative test program where you are testing, analyzing the results, determining the root cause, fixing the design, and then testing it, again.

Listen-in to the podcast or read the transcript to find out more about its roots, why you should perform HALT (or not), when in the design process it’s best (hint: really early), and who likely needs to be involved.

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How to Make a Decision

How to Make a Decision

How to Make a Decision

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

If nothing changes, then nothing changes. Change happens when we decide to do something. The status quo remains if we decide to do nothing. We make decisions every day. We do it so often that it might seem like a trivial thing to do. But we so often get it wrong. We might be influenced by emotion, prejudice, time pressure, budgetary stress, or ‘mental comfort.’ [Read more…]

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MD 161 Sanya Mathura – Maintenance & Reliability Champion

MD 161 Sanya Mathura – Maintenance & Reliability Champion

MD 161 Sanya Mathura – Maintenance & Reliability Champion

Lubrication, reliability, women in STEM, Maintenance Mastermind and a whole lot more. In this weeks episode we welcome Sanya Mathura to the show and we cover a lot of ground. Sanya is a champion in maintenance and reliability and huge supporter of Maintenance Disrupted. [Read more…]

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262 – Why AI Fails with Matt Kirchner

262 – Why AI Fails with Matt Kirchner

Why AI Fails with Matt Kirchner

Matt is the Chief Product Officer at Atonix Digital and is involved with AI, works on software packages, analytics etc. More about Matt:

He has a background in mechanical engineering and started off in a large firm where they offered remote monitoring services to power generating customers. They oversaw reliability and operational performance. Over time, the company started investing in software tools to facilitate better and more efficient monitoring. The firm then split and now a portion of it only focuses on operational intelligence tools.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is operational intelligence and how is it different from reliability or preventive maintenance programs?
  • Why do many organizations miss operational intelligence in reliability?
  • How do companies benefit from operational intelligence?

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SOR 655 Hints to Have a Proactive Reliability Program

SOR 655 Hints to Have a Proactive Reliability Program

Hints to Have a Proactive Reliability Program

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss ‘proactive’ reliability engineering … and trying to get out of being ‘reactive.’ Some entire organizations are structure around waiting for the catastrophe to happen before we fix it. So changing perspectives can be challenging.
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SOR 654 Reliability Starts at the Top

SOR 654 Reliability Starts at the Top

Reliability Starts at the Top

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss how reliability starts at the top of every organization. And by that, we mean … leadership. What does that mean? How can the CEO be more important for reliability performance than the reliability engineer with decades of experience and post-graduate qualifications?
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QDD 005 The Designer’s Risk Analysis affects Business, Projects, and Suppliers

QDD 005 The Designer’s Risk Analysis affects Business, Projects, and Suppliers

The Designer’s Risk Analysis affects Business, Projects, and Suppliers

It takes a village to produce a design from concept to realization. Everyone along the way seems to think of risk a little bit differently. Designers are both directly and indirectly involved with all these risk management methods, but it’s important to understand who is looking at what type of information. Why? Because of communication. One group might think that risk management is covered in the way they’re thinking it should be, when in actuality it’s not.

This podcast will review risk management of other functional groups and how a designer’s risk affects them.

  • Business/Marketing risk management
  • Project Manager risk management
  • Supplier Management

As a designer you have an important job and a unique perspective to analyze risk of your design and a responsibility to communicate it so everyone can help reduce risks.

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MD 159 Thinking Differently About How Business Asset Questions Are Answered

MD 159 Thinking Differently About How Business Asset Questions Are Answered

MD 159 Thinking Differently About How Business Asset Questions Are Answered

Welcome back to another episode of the Technology Innovations series of the Maintenance Disrupted Podcast where we look at the people and technology fueling Industry 4.0. In this episode, Blair Fraser sit down with Dane Boers of Modla to talk about the digitization of asset knowledge.

In this episode, we discuss the typical approach to answer questions like what should my budget be next year or what predictive monitoring technology should I utilize. It doesn’t take long to realize that most of the questions get answered from the foundation knowledge that exists in exercises like FMECA and RCM but more concerning is the amount of information in people’s head, SME knowledge. But how do you get it out? How do you have repeatability in your answers? Take a listen to this new approach to answering questions using asset modeling.

Connect with our Guest Here:

Dane Boers – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daneboers/

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.

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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/

 

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261 – Why is it so hard to get Lubrication right with Bennett Fitch

261 – Why is it so hard to get Lubrication right with Bennett Fitch

Why is it so hard to get Lubrication right with Bennett Fitch

Welcome Bennett who is the Director of Product Development at Noria Corporation.

Bennet has a background in Mechanical Engineering and worked in an oil analysis laboratory. Currently focuses on lubrication product development and has consulted for many plants enough to notice the common challenges

In this episode we covered:

  • Why do organizations struggle with lubrication?
  • What are the small things that make the biggest difference?
  • How do we overcome current restrictions on training due to pandemic?

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