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QDD 033 How Many Do We Need To Test?

QDD 033 How Many Do We Need To Test?

How Many Do We Need To Test?

In this episode we review sampling for design tests. We talk through a generic thought process for choosing a statistically relevant sample size and propose some basics that we can all learn about to better understand sampling.

Our goal is for us to be able to better talk through a sampling scenario with our quality and reliability engineering friends, and to better prepare for the information that they’re going to want to know when asked, “How many do we need to test?”

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289 – Secrets of CMMS Implementation with Joseph Schmitt

289 – Secrets of CMMS Implementation with Joseph Schmitt

Secrets of CMMS Implementation with Joseph Schmitt

It’s my pleasure to welcome Joseph Schmitt to the podcast. He is a VP of customer success at Upkeep. The team focused on deploying and implementing upkeep at new locations.

Our customer success team is focused on driving the post onboarding relationship. It’s really honing in on adoption and making sure that customers are successful using the tool, and then also our technical support team.

In this episode we covered:

  • What would you define as a CMMS implementation?
  • Is that the definition of successful implementation or is there more or less to it?
  • What steps or process have you seen or utilized to make sure that we get that successful implementation?

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PR S2:E9 Defect Elimination w/ Michelle Henley

PR S2:E9 Defect Elimination w/ Michelle Henley

Defect Elimination w/ Michelle Henley

Michelle Ledet Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions where she has spent the past 25 years helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using a game-based simulation.  Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site’s reliability improvement efforts.  Co-authoring  various articles and the book Level 5 – Leadership at Work, the sequel to the popular Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It, Michelle has become a thought leader on the emerging and often misunderstood topic of defect elimination.

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MM S4:E08 Rick Clonan

MM S4:E08 Rick Clonan

Rick Clonan

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Rick Clonan, maintenance expert and co-author of the book Engineer’s Guide to Preventive Maintenance: Mitigating Asset Risks Through Preventive Action on the show! Rick and Ryan discuss topics surrounding the data that’s necessary to leverage PM optimization and mitigate risk, both in an organization and on a larger scale. Listen now!
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QDD 032 Life Cycle Costing for Product Design Choices

QDD 032 Life Cycle Costing for Product Design Choices

Life Cycle Costing for Product Design Choices

It costs our customers to own our designed products. It costs them initially to purchase it, but it also costs them to use it, maintain it, repair it, and eventually dispose of it. And it costs our company in ways too, like processing, training requirements for customers, and warranty repair costs. 

Life cycle costing can help our team choose between design alternatives, like alternate design options, features, manufacturing methods, or suppliers.

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MD 192 False Positives & False Negatives with Nanoprecise

MD 192 False Positives & False Negatives with Nanoprecise

MD 192 False Positives & False Negatives with Nanoprecise

Do you know what a false positive is? How about a false negative? Do you know how that going to affect your predictive maintenance program?

This week’s episode Blair and Steve chat with Nanoprecise’s Sunil Vedula & Graham Kawulka about this topic! Tune in and learn what false positives and negatives are and how they will affect your monitoring program. At the same time learn a bit more about the Nanoprecise solution and how it can support your organization.

Episode Shout Outs:

Sun Vedula – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-vedula-844a0917/

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

www.nanoprecise.io

 

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent

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MM S4:E07 Chris Colson

MM S4:E07 Chris Colson

Chris Colson

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Chris Colson, Principal at Allied Reliability, and co-author of Clean, Green, and Reliable: A Sustainable Reliability Guide For Industrial Plants on the show! While the benefits of equipment reliability are most noted for reducing the cost of maintenance, Chris and Ryan discuss the benefits of reliable assets that reach far beyond cost and into environmental, social and governance practices. Listen now!
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RM 083: A Conversation with Thermal Management Expert Miles Moreau

RM 083: A Conversation with Thermal Management Expert Miles Moreau

A Conversation with Thermal Management Expert Miles Moreau

Miles Moreau is KIC’s General Manager, has been with KIC for nearly three decades. He draws his deep and rich expertise from managing multiple business units across four continents spanning operations, field service, and sales and marketing channels. His expertise is in thermal management and that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about today.

We’ve discussed how to profile a board on this show. Today, we’re going to talk about profiling an oven and a wave soldering machine, and how, when done correctly, may reduce the number of times one has to attach thermocouples to a circuit board and run it through an oven or wave soldering machine.

Miles’ Contact Information:
Miles Moreau
mmoreau@kicmail.com
https://kicthermal.com

 

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288 – Facilitating FMEAs with Bobby Lee

288 – Facilitating FMEAs with Bobby Lee

Facilitating FMEAs with Bobby Lee

It’s my pleasure to welcome Bobby Lee back to the podcast.

He is a reliability engineer with irritation. He spent quite a bit of time working on FMEA’s equipment, maintenance plans, RCAs, etc. He has spent about 10 years as a maintenance technician and a reliability engineer.

In this episode we covered:

  • What are some of the things you see going on with FMEAs that we really got to pay attention to?
  • So how do we get that engagement then?
  • Some people get hung up on some of the corrective actions or preventative actions coming out, right?

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PR S2:E8 Leadership w/ Tom Moriarty

PR S2:E8 Leadership w/ Tom Moriarty

Leadership w/ Tom Moriarty

Thomas J. Moriarty, PE, CMRP is president of Alidade Maintenance Engineering and Reliability, Inc. (Alidade MER). Founded in 2004, its mission is to help others lead full and satisfying lives through organizational reliability and productive leadership; particularly in physical asset management, operations, maintenance and reliability engineering.

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TLC 027 Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

TLC 027 Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Thomas Boehm in Episode 27 of this series. Thom H. Boehm is a knitting machine technician at Stanfield’s Ltd., a textile mill in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has worked there for the last 20 years, and before that was an English teacher in Japan.  At Stanfield’s, although down in old textile lingo as a knitter/fixer, he does whatever needs to be done to keep the room functioning as well as possible, and this includes repairing and maintaining a host of different styles of circular knitting machines.

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