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If you are a reliability engineer – chances are you have done a Weibull plot. You take something like failure data, put it into a piece of software, and presto! [Read more…]
On this week’s episode, I welcome Joe Adam to the show. Joe is the Engineering & Maintenance Manager at Roche Diabetes. We discuss using ultrasound for low speed applications, precision maintenance and progressing through the reliability journey. [Read more…]
Episode 37: A Conversation with IPC’s President and CEO Dr. John Mitchell
Dr. John Mitchell talks about the state of the industry, COVID-19 (Corona Virus), and the future of the electronic assembly industry.
This episode revolves around the book titled as Reliability Centered Asset Management by Richard Overman. It is based on using the principles of reliability centered maintenance to manage your assets. It helps you understand the processes involved in managing your assets effectively by finding answers to questions such as; how or why your assets are failing? What are the consequences of those failures? And how to take actions to prevent those failures from occurring in the first place. It is based on the application of RCM principles to ensure reliability through-out the lifecycle of the asset.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we welcome Doug Plucknette, founder of Reliability Solutions, to the show!
Adam and Joe Schwendler discussing how “corner case use” in testing can quickly identify robustness weaknesses and most importantly wear out.
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Adam and Jessica discussing how the culture of reliability and maintenance can have a dramatic effect in how production and field issues are resolved.
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Carl discusses the unique role that FMEA can play in a reliability program, when done exceptionally well.
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Kirk discusses a very interesting failure mechanism in a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) design and manufacturing company he briefly worked at and what the detailed failure analysis showed.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Ryan Chan back to the show. We discuss hiring, building a great culture and some of UpKeep’s new sensors.
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If a methodology or a program isn’t producing desired value for an organization even after putting all the necessary resources into it, the root cause might be the culture of that organization. The culture of an organization consists of its practices, common goals, and shared values. If people aren’t putting efforts into securing the goals that an organization values, there’s definitely something wrong with the organization’s culture. That’s why culture is so important for managing assets and the overall success of the organization. A good culture is formed when the organization has set some standard procedures and values in place to ensure certain practices.
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James discusses the dilemma of different groups complaining at the same time about too few and too many spares stocked.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we are so excited to welcome Maureen Gribble, Director of Marketing at UE Systems, to the show!
Fred discusses skills that we need to master to be effective in what we do.
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Chris discusses … what you want. Pretty broad I know. But there are things we really want – things we dedicate our time, effort and attention to. And then there are things we say we want. And the human brain is actually specifically structure to pick up on different cues to work out if you are really interested in something (or not). So we can pretty easily work out if you say you want something – but don’t really want it to the extent you want other things. Why does this relate to reliability engineering? Click here to learn more.
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