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Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem of ‘influence’ or lack thereof when you are a small buyer. Influence to get reliable components. Influence to have that supplier remedy your issues. Because you feel too small and insignificant. Sound familiar? Then listen to this podcast.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Bryan Bieschke and Jim Vantyghem. We discuss human connection, reliability, and the importance of psychological safety.
You can connect with our guests here:
Bryan Bieschke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-bieschke-cmrp-221a05ba/
Jim Vantyghem: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-vantyghem-3338a320/
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
We’re excited to have Roman Megela joining us. He’s a senior reliability engineer with Easy-Laser. Before that, he was a service manager, and he also worked in the service engineering field. Roman’s primarily worked with rotating equipment for over 20 years. He’s dealt with glass production and stainless-steel production.
He’s also been involved in oil and gas, mainly dealing with oxygen gas compression systems. He dealt with blowers, compressors, fans, and pumps for oxygen production, among others. Roman’s career specialty, however, lies in machinery installation, assembly, and their placement. He’s also been a commissioner for oil and gas, commissioning these globally in areas such as the US, Asia, Singapore, and Europe.
Roman will give us insight on:
… and so much more!
Chris and Fred discuss the idea of timing how long you spend talking about ‘reliability engineering.’ And by this, we mean conversation where you (1) proactively talking about preventing failures before they occur, and (2) in a way where something gets done about it (improving something)? Let’s say someone timed how much time your organization spent on this sort of conversation – would you be proud of the number you get?
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Chris and Fred talk about accelerated life testing or ALT. Well before we start, we need to work out what the decision we are informing is. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast.
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In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are thrilled to have Cliff Williams on the show!
The difficult part of creating this list of essential techniques is to avoid selecting just the most common. There is an overlap between essential and those commonly used, yet essential implies a technique is crucial. Crucial on rare yet very important situations. The idea for today’s discussion is to focus on those vital few techniques that I believe every reliability engineer must master. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode, Michelle Ledet Henley & George Mahoney join me to discuss defect elimination.
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
Episode 51: A Conversation with X-Ray Expert and Entrepreneur Dr. Bill Cardoso
Bill started his first company in Brazil at age 17 and sold it a few years later to move to the US to work for the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to do nuclear and high energy physics research. As the Department Head for Systems Engineering and after a 10-year long career at Fermilab, He moved from Chicago to southern California to start Creative Electron from his garage
Bill was what could be described as an early achiever, earning his associates degree at age 13!
Bill earned a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and MS and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and, if that weren’t enough an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Bill may be reached here:
bcardoso@creativeelectron.com
Bob Latino, an expert on root cause analysis with 36 years of experience, joined us on this episode to discuss Root Cause Analysis and the Easy Root Cause Analysis program that he and his team have developed.
We’ll go into the nuances of:
… and so much more!
Kirk and Fred discussing how to test a new product without knowing the specific mechanisms that will be a possible weakness, and reliability issue in the field
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Kirk and Fred discussing the planning of the user profiles and use conditions that engineers must make during the design process
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On this week’s episode, I do a solo podcast talking about empathy, value & authenticity. These concepts are part of being a high impact leader and they are lacking in our community.
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Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
We’re glad to have Michael Mazur from Schwan’s Global Supply Chain. With 10 years at that plant, he currently holds the role of a maintenance technician. He’s previously worked as a trainer and supervisor at Schwan’s. Michael started as an electronics maintenance technician in the navy. He was there for 21 years before moving on to Kone Elevators as a customer service analyst. He then became a vocational trainer at Lincoln Technical Institute.
His knowledge will help us get more insight into:
… and so much more!
Carl and Fred discussing the broad set of skills that are needed to be an effective team leader.
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