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The more you understand the failure mechanisms the easier it is to design an accelerated life test, (ALT). Yet, we often do not have all the information we would like to draft an ALT. So, what do we do then?
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Starting a maintenance program from scratch is no easy task. Our guest this week, Ronan O’Sullivan, has been with his plant from brownfield to operation. Tune in and hear about Ronan’s journey and what he has learned along the way.
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Ronan O’Sullivan – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronan-o-sullivan-25726a37/
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
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Welcome to episode 65 of the Reliability Matters podcast. This is part 2 of our conservation with Aim Solder’s Tim O’Neill and BTU’s Fred Dimock. On this episode, we’ll dive into oven profiling best practices.
Timothy O’Neill is the Technical Marketing Manager for AIM Solder. Operating out of AIM’s U.S. Headquarters, Tim is responsible for developing and optimizing product and technical information, collaborating with complimentary suppliers and equipment manufacturers and ensuring AIM’s products exceed expectations and meet market requirements.
Tim is also a technical writer and presenter for industry trade publications and events. He has co-authored several papers on PCB assembly subjects.
Tim is also an IPC-A-610 Certified IPC Specialist.
Fred Dimock is the Manager of Process Technology at BTU International and recently started a consulting business, FCD-Global services.
Fred holds an Associate Degree in Mechanical Design from Wentworth in Boston and a Bachelors Degree in Ceramic Engineering from the State University of New York.
Fred has authored numerous articles on lead free solder, process control, and the operation of continuous furnaces. His papers have been published in English, Chinese, and German.
He has taught numerous SMTA solder reflow classes and participated in the 5-45 Subcommittee for the development of IPC-7801 Reflow Oven Process Control Standard.
Additionally, he wrote the chapter on solder reflow for the Handbook of Electronic Assembly and A Guide to SMTA Certification by Dr Lasky and Jim Hall.
He received Distinguished Speaker status at SMTA Guadalajara Mexico and is a key presenter for the SMTA Jump Start program for new engineers.
Tim O’Neill may be contacted here:
toneill@aimsolder.com
Fred Dimock may be contacted here:
fdimock@btu.com
It is my pleasure to welcome Ryan Chan who is the founder of Upkeep. Ryan has done a lot of work in building online maintenance communities..
He went to University of California Berkeley and graduated as a chemical engineer. His first job was at a manufacturing company where he noticed several opportunities for improvement in the technology that was being utilized at the time.
These gaps gave me the idea to build a software that could:
Carl and Fred discussing the application of FMEAs in support of asset maintenance.
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Carl and Fred discussing the reliability of the Texas electric grid debacle, and what can be learned from a reliability point of view. Lessons learned from this problem can be applied to other industries.
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Scaling of Industrial IoT solutions requires a Unified Namespace, which acts as a centralized repository of data, information, and context where any application or device can consume or publish data needed for a specific action. A place where everything is a node within an ecosystem
Best described as “What one node knows, all nodes know”
If a Unified Namespace is so important, why do most of us not know what the heck it is and how to achieve it?
In this week’s episode, we talk about the concept of a Unified Namespace strategy early in our Digital Transformation journey to ensure the full potential of your investment and that it can scale. I am pleased to welcome David Shultz of G5 Consulting to discuss architecting a digital transformation solution.
Connect with our Guest Here:
David Schultz – https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedavidschultz/
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
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Chris and Fred discuss how to become a reliability engineering consultant. This is a very natural question for a lot of us. It might be easy to visualize what you want to achieve. But it can be daunting to get there.
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Brought up in a mining family that had no time for gender stereotypes, Allyson Hawley, our guest on today’s show, was surprised when she began her mechanical engineering degree with hardly any fellow women students. Throughout her career in the male-dominated mining industry, Allyson has received a lot of support but has also experienced a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle discrimination based on the fact that she is a woman. As she explains, sometimes it’s difficult to identify discrimination, which is why it is so important to find a community that has your back. Allyson also shares the ways in which men in these fields can contribute to eradicating the issue of gender discrimination. We discuss how Allyson’s company is working towards increasing gender diversity in STEM fields, changes she has seen take place in her industry over the years, her take on the hiring process, and her thoughts about what it takes to create a sustainable future. Emily is joined by Blair Fraser and Charli K. Matthews as co-hosts and the combination of perspectives makes for an eye-opening discussion!
Chris and Fred discuss how you go about setting a reliability goal. We got asked by someone who was responsible for a ‘complex’ system …
How reliable does our system need to be?
Unfortunately … you need to tell us that! Hopefully this webinar will help you start asking the right question to work it out for yourself.
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Welcome Stewart and Frank to the podcast. Briefly tell us about yourselves
Stewart has a background in Big Data and Applied Mathematics and currently specializes in AI at Fiix. Frank on the other hand has a background in manufacturing of consumer products.
In this episode, we covered:
Many of us are down the path of monitoring our assets. We have tried different sensors, algorithms, and/or vendors. Many of these attempts to monitor our assets better have failed. How can we do it better?
In this weeks episode Allyson Hawley of Teck Resources helps us understand how we can monitor our assets better. How we can go about centralizing asset health, what some challenges she has faced in the mining industry, and how she has overcome them.
Connect with our Guest Here:
Allyson Hawley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allyson-hawley-9906a494/
Additional Plug: https://girlswhocode.com/
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/
Philip and Fred discussing the general need to be able to teach reliability all the time.
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Philip and Fred discussing the journey of learning reliability engineering.
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In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Andy Gager, CEO at AMG International Consulting, on the show!