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Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability in Your Organization: Just ask ‘why’

Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability in Your Organization: Just ask ‘why’

Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability in Your Organization: Just ask ‘why’

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

There are so many books on leadership, management, more leadership, reliability, quality, customer first, even more leadership, et cetera. But there remains a common refrain I hear repeatedly from reliability engineers struggling to make a difference: ‘reliability is just not relevant to my organization.’ There is a common thread to this common refrain – we only hear it from people who work in organizations that don’t have a clear understanding of ‘why’ they are doing what they do.

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MD 149 Improving Guest Experience at an Amusement Park with AI

MD 149 Improving Guest Experience at an Amusement Park with AI

MD 149 Improving Guest Experience at an Amusement Park with AI

It might be indirectly but we are all in the customer service industry. For many of us our customers are not end-users, but other departments in our organization like operations. The challenge set out to this week’s guests was “how do we improve the guest experience”

In this week’s episode, we talk about using AI for Predictive Maintenance on the equipment most of us have spent a lot of time and money to use for a few seconds of fun, amusement park rides. I am pleased to welcome the data science and analytics team from Atos to discuss this unique project that generates over 25 million data points per second.

Connect with our Guest Here:

Ankur Srivastava – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-srivastava-6b628521/

Arnaud Langer – https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnaudlanger/

 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.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

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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RM 064: A Conservation with Tim O’Neill and Fred Dimock

RM 064: A Conservation with Tim O’Neill and Fred Dimock

A Conservation with Tim O’Neill and Fred Dimock

Welcome to episode 64 of the Reliability Matters podcast. On this episode, we’ll have a conversation with two industry experts on the subject of solder voiding mitigation and oven profiling, two subjects which influence solder voiding. This will be a two part episode. Today, we’ll dive into void mitigation and how vacuum reflow technology can help reduce or eliminate voiding. Part two, on episode 65 (in two weeks), we’ll discuss profiling best practices.

My guests today, and one the next episode are Tim O’Neill from AIM Solder and Fred Dimock of BTU. Tim will discuss voiding mitigation from a materials standpoint while Fred will bring cover equipment and profiling stragities.

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

 

 

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254 – Defining Subsystems in an RCM Analysis with Doug Plucknette

254 – Defining Subsystems in an RCM Analysis with Doug Plucknette

Defining Subsystems in an RCM Analysis with Doug Plucknette

We’re excited to be joined again by Doug Plucknette, an author, consultant, and instructor around maintenance and reliability, to talk about RCM analysis. This topic relates to a previous episode on failure curves.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What is an RCM analysis?
  • Why break down an asset into Subsystems to analyze
  • How to break an asset down into Subsystems
  • And much more!

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MD 148 Reengineered Assets with Alex Rosales

MD 148 Reengineered Assets with Alex Rosales

MD 148 Reengineered Assets with Alex Rosales

Are your assets aging and no longer supported by the OEMs? Are you struggling with disengaged vendors? Re-engineering your assets and going to third parties may be the answer.

In this episode Steven Dobie welcomes Alex Rosales to discuss when we should look at reengineering our assets, what processes can be followed, and some of the benefits third parties can bring to the table.

Connect with our Guest Here:

Linkedin

https://www.amepower.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.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

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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253 – Using WO Data in a Well Rounded PdM Strategy with Frank Emery

253 – Using WO Data in a Well Rounded PdM Strategy with Frank Emery

Using WO Data in a Well Rounded PdM Strategy with Frank Emery

We’re excited to have Frank Emery, the product manager of AI at Fiix Software, with us to talk about how to make the Work Order data work. Fiix Software is a CMMS that was initially called Maintenance Assistant. He’s been in the software industry for at least ten years, figuring out how to use data. Frank’s work at Fiix is to try and make maintenance technicians’ lives a little bit easier.

Key highlights from this episode are:

  • What is Work Order data?
  • What type of data are you looking for in a WO?
  • How to develop a well-rounded PM program using WO data

.. and so much more!

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MD 147 Fiix and Nanoprecise Unite

MD 147 Fiix and Nanoprecise Unite

MD 147 Fiix and Nanoprecise Unite

The importance of partnerships not only from a vendor to a customer but from vendor to vendor to create a holistic approach to maintenance and reliability is what is driving industry 4.0. Solution providers are now being pushed from customers to be open, to be able to connect their solutions with others to provide better asset performance management.

This week we welcome Graham Kawulka from Nanoprecise and Sandy D’Souza from Fiix software to the show. Through a recent partnership, Fixx and Nanoprecise have made it easier than ever for organizations to monitor the health of equipment in real-time, detect anomalous behavior, automatically trigger maintenance activities, and generate in-depth reports on asset performance and condition.

This podcast speaks to the shift of open by design ecosystem of solution providers coming together to solve a greater problem in our facilities.

Connect with our Guest Here:

Graham Kawulka – https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-kawulka-0b851122/

Sandy D’Souza – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyd3/

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.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

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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RM 063: A Conversation with and a Presentation by Reliability Expert Dock Brown

RM 063: A Conversation with and a Presentation by Reliability Expert Dock Brown

A Conversation with and a Presentation by Reliability Expert Dock Brown

Welcome to episode 63 of the Reliability Matters Podcast. Today, I’ll be speaking with Dock Brown.

Dock Brown brings his more than 30 years of electronics reliability experience to clients of Ansys. Prior to joining Ansys, he spent 20 years at Medtronic where he most recently concentrated on cross business unit implementation of reliability initiatives for Class III medical devices. He was also responsible for supplier assessment and approval, on-going supplier audits, failure analysis, corrective actions, MRB, sampling, and ultimately full accountability for quality and reliability of commercial off-the-shelf and custom parts and assemblies from a worldwide supplier base. Earlier in his career, Mr. Brown also spent time at Sundstrand Data Control where he led the implementation of Boeing’s Advanced Quality System program and with Olin Aerospace.

As a volunteer, he has been involved with ASQ, IEEE, IPC, and SMTA. He was the keynote speaker at the SMTA Cleaning Conference and won the best paper award at the SMTA Microelectronics Conference. He has taught on the subjects of design for reliability, tin whiskers, statistics, design of experiments, and contributed to standards development.

Today’s episode is a little different than others. Dock will be sharing a very interesting presentation on the subject of reliability. If you’re listening to the audio-only version of this episode, you may want to view the video version so you can see Dock’s slide-deck. The video version of this episode, and several others are available on the Reliability Matters YouTube channel.

Dock Brown may be reached here:
dock.brown@ansys.com

 

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252 – How to Avoid Becoming a Prisoner of Your Own Process with Brandon Weil

252 – How to Avoid Becoming a Prisoner of Your Own Process with Brandon Weil

How to Avoid Becoming a Prisoner of Your Own Process with Brandon Weil

We’re excited to be joined by Brandon Weil, the operations director at Eruditio. He was also the chair at the 2020 SMRP conference. Brandon will be giving us an in-depth look into becoming a prisoner of your process.

Key highlights from this episode are:

  • What does the phrase mean?
  • What could cause you to get in too deep?
  • How do you evolve to stop or not become a prisoner of your process?

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SOR 633 Assessing Reliability Courses

SOR 633 Assessing Reliability Courses

Assessing Reliability Courses

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss what you need to think about when selecting your next reliability engineering course. What course do you need to do to become a better engineer (and more valuable to your organization)?
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