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On this week’s episode, I talk about leadership & why we struggle in industry. To learn more about The Leadership Launchpad Project, go to http://robsreliability.com/leadership
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Episode 49 – A Conversation with SMTA’s Global Executive Director Tanya Martin and Greg Vance, Member of SMTA Global Board of Directors about SMTAI 2020’s new virtual format.
Numerous exhibitors are taking part in this new format. More than 100 technical presentations and papers will be available on-demand. Additionally, nine 3.5 hour professional development courses will be presented live!
Register to attend the virtual exhibition and technical conference here:
https://smta.org/mpage/smtai
Today, we’re welcoming Rob Kalwarowsky from Rob’s Reliability project. He’s currently an asset manager at Enbridge, handling their mechanical assets. Rob was previously a reliability consultant for five years, as well as a reliability engineer at Teck Resources. He’s been on a few of our previous podcasts.
But today, he’s helping us look into aspects of spare parts optimization such as:
… and so much more!
Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.
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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Michelle Henley and Jeff Shiver. We discuss culture change and motivation.
You can connect with our guests here:
Michelle Henley – https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleledethenley/
Jeff Shiver – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffshiver/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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I’m excited to have Bill Leahy with us for a deep dive into whether organizations should build an RE internally, or they should hire externally to fill those roles. Bill has worked at Eruditio for the past three years and is currently a senior instructor there.
Today, we’re tackling important points such as:
… and so much more!
Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.
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Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.
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In this week’s episode Masterminds in Maintenance, we are exited to have Adrian Messer, Director of US Operations at UE Systems, on the show!
Some of you may have heard of ‘Bayesian analysis.’ You may think this is something fancy that only universities do. Or something we never do because it is all about ‘best guesses.’ Well … neither of these things are true.
Why would you be interested in Bayesian analysis? Simple. It allows you to use EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION you have. This can be expert judgment. Or it can be test data on a similar ‘thing.’ Or it could be combining test data for one part of your ‘thing’ combined with test data for ‘all of your thing.’ [Read more…]
On this bonus episode, I talk about why you’re a leader, what leadership is and why poor leadership is what’s holding our industry back.
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Episode 48: A Conversation with David Alexander, a China supply chain expert about Importing from and Exporting to China.
We are all familiar with the pros and cons of importing goods from China. China supply chain expert David Alexander discusses pros and cons of doing business in China. David also discusses the lesser known opportunities of exporting US goods to China and China’s appetite for western brands.
David is the Founder and President of Baysource Global, company which provides management of offshore factories, US sales and distribution of Chinese products as well as distribution of US products in to China.
Information on Baysource Global is available here:
https://baysourceglobal.com
David Alexander may be contacted here:
david.alexander@baysource.net
Joe Anderson and George Williams started Reliability X. Joe Anderson is the COO and George is the CEO. Reliability X is a consulting organization that offers the implementation of holistic reliability for manufacturing sites. They also offer coaching, mentoring and teaching in a variety of mechanisms. They have partnered with the University of Wisconsin. Both of them have a vast amount of experiencing totaling 55 years. Here, they share with us some of their nuggets.
In this episode:
… and so much more!
Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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