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RRP 039 Ultrasound Deep Dive with Adrian Messer

RRP 039 Ultrasound Deep Dive with Adrian Messer

RRP 039 Ultrasound Deep Dive with Adrian Messer

On this week’s episode, I welcome Adrian Messer from UE Systems to the show.  We talk more about how to use ultrasound as a predictive maintenance tool and different mechanical faults that you can detect.   We also dive into some of the nuts and bolts of setting up an ultrasound program including where, how often to take readings and procedures.

If you enjoy the show, please tell your colleagues in reliability about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn.  I’m putting out some bonus content only for that page so if you follow my personal LinkedIn, you might miss out on some great stuff.

If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

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SOR 395 Professional Tidier Marie Kondo … and How we Can Do the Same in Reliability

SOR 395 Professional Tidier Marie Kondo … and How we Can Do the Same in Reliability

Professional Tidier Marie Kondo … and How we Can Do the Same in Reliability

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Chris and Carl discussing how the self discipline of taking care of personal “tidiness” can be applied to improve the organization of reliability activities.
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RM 003 An Interview with Johns Hopkins’ APL Engineer, Wendy Casker

RM 003 An Interview with Johns Hopkins’ APL Engineer, Wendy Casker

An Interview with Johns Hopkins’ APL Engineer, Wendy Casker

Changing a customer’s mindset is often difficult. When a process is working well, we often resist changing the process, even if the change provides a better result. This is the “Good is the Enemy of Great” syndrome. My guest, Wendy Casker of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory tells of us how she introduced a “better process” to her space customer.

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144 – Understanding Asset Hierarchy with Shon Isenhour and Brandon Weil

144 – Understanding Asset Hierarchy with Shon Isenhour and Brandon Weil

Understanding Asset Hierarchy with Shon Isenhour and Brandon Weil

Asset hierarchy is very important to utilize the limited resources of an organization in the best way possible. It helps manage time and cost by prioritizing our assets. That’s why every organization needs to have a hierarchy. There are a lot of standards out there to help you build an asset hierarchy. ISO 14224 helps greatly in the matter. It contains guidelines that a maintenance and reliability organization can use to define some sort of organized processes and procedures that are important to have in the facilities. When they have laid out a foundation that way, it gets easier to do all sorts of things.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What is Asset Hierarchy?
  • Why is the asset hierarchy needed?
  • How should an asset hierarchy be organized?
  • How to develop an asset hierarchy?
  • And much more!

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RRP 038 Holistic Physical Asset Management with Dharmen Dhaliah

RRP 038 Holistic Physical Asset Management with Dharmen Dhaliah

RRP 038 Holistic Physical Asset Management with Dharmen Dhaliah

On this week’s episode, I welcome Dharmen Dhaliah to the show.  Dharmen is the author of Physical Asset Management – An Organizational Challenge and he’s the corporate asset manager for the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada.  We discuss the concept of holistic physical asset management, why we need to be better at communicating between corporate silos and why physical asset management requires significant amounts of work with a different mindset from what we currently have.

If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

Check out Dharmen Dhaliah’s website to purchase Physical Asset Management – An Organizational Challenge – https://www.dharmendhaliah.com/

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SOR 394 Reliability Engineering versus Management

SOR 394 Reliability Engineering versus Management

Reliability Engineering versus Management

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Carl and Chris discussing the subjects of reliability engineering and reliability management. Are they generally the same subject with different focus areas, or are they based on entirely different bodies of knowledge?
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SOR 393 How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?

SOR 393 How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?

How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?

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Kirk and Fred discussing how his career path led to being a reliability engineer and meeting a working with Gregg Hobbs. Ph.D. the reliability leader that gave him a new perspective on HALT and HASS.
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143 – The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg

143 – The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg

The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg

In every industry, people skills contribute a lot to the success of an employee. The thing is that engineers and especially reliability engineers are not taught soft skills like change management and communication strategies across different facilities in the maintenance and reliability oriented organizations. The reason that engineers don’t have enough soft skills because organizations don’t have enough time or resources to do this. Most of the times, an organization just doesn’t realize how important it is to be able to communicate the procedures in the right way to the people that are concerned with it.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What are the soft skills reliability engineers need?
  • Why are these soft skills required?
  • How can a reliability engineer develop these skills?
  • What skills are most important?
  • And much more!

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RRP 037 Key Performance Indicators with James Kovacevic

RRP 037 Key Performance Indicators with James Kovacevic

RRP 037 Key Performance Indicators with James Kovacevic

This is a 2 part episode, in the first part, I welcome on Jordan Cohen, director of uMaintenance to talk about his upcoming conference, MaintenanceCon, that I will be speaking at in Chicago in April of 2019.  It’s a quick segment but hopefully some of you will join me at that conference!

In the second part of the episode, I welcome back James Kovacevic on to the show.  James is the host of Rooted in Reliability podcast and the principal instructor at Eruditio.  Be sure to stay tuned to Rooted in Reliability because I will be appearing on that podcast in March talking about oil analysis.  James and I talked about Key Performance Indicators, the difference between KPIs and metrics, leading and lagging indicators and James gives us some tips on how to correctly use metrics at our sites.

If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

To find out more about MaintenanceCon – https://www.umaintenance.com/events

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142 – Developing Failure Codes with Bill Leahy

142 – Developing Failure Codes with Bill Leahy

Developing Failure Codes with Bill Leahy

Failures codes help the reliability engineers to make intelligent business decisions regarding the issues with the assets. It is a formula that helps you understand how an asset fails and how can you gather the needed data to mitigate a failure? A good failure code contains a hierarchy of the problem towards a suitable solution. The best practice to devise a failure code would be to break it into a sequence of Part, Problem, and Cause. In short, failure codes help you describe and understand the problem based on the failure data, and you can trend that data to prevent those failures in the future.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What are failure codes?
  • Why are failure codes needed?
  • How can organizations develop meaningful failure codes?
  • What role does ISO 14224 play in failure data?
  • And much more!

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RRP 036 Listener Questions about AI with Rajiv Anand

RRP 036 Listener Questions about AI with Rajiv Anand

RRP 036 Listener Questions about AI with Rajiv Anand

On this week’s show, I welcome on Rajiv Anand, the founder and CEO of Quartic.AI.  During this episode, Rajiv explains different types of projects where AI would be a good solution, how much data we need to get started and answers some other listener questions.

If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com

Check out Quartic.ai – www.quartic.ai

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