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QDD 031 5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements

QDD 031 5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements

5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements

Good reliability requirements are going to drive our design decisions relating to the concept, the components, the materials, and other stuff. So, the moment to start defining reliability requirements is early in the design process. But, what makes a well-defined reliability requirement? There are five aspects it should cover: do you know what they are? 

We’ll describe what makes a good reliability requirement and examples of common (but not good) requirements.

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MD 191 Lubrication Explained Joint Podcast with Rafe Britton

MD 191 Lubrication Explained Joint Podcast with Rafe Britton

MD 191 Lubrication Explained Joint Podcast with Rafe Britton

A joint episode with Rafe Britton of Lubrication Expert on Industry 4.0 & Tech Trends in Maintenance.

Follow Lubrication Expert here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lubrication-expert/

Follow Rafe Britton here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafe-britton/

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted.  If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com

Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted

Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

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MM S4:E06 From the Military to Maintenance – How to Transition into a Successful Career

MM S4:E06 From the Military to Maintenance – How to Transition into a Successful Career

From the Military to Maintenance – How to Transition into a Successful Career

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have a special panel episode co-hosted by Gary Wood, U.S. Army Ranger and UpKeep Senior Implementation Manager. To celebrate Veterans Day, we invite you to spend time with four Veterans who have transitioned from the US Armed Forces to a successful career in maintenance and reliability. Please join us to hear their stories of service, their unique perspective on how they prepared for their transition, and why you should hire a veteran.
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287 – Evolution of Technology with Simon Jagers

287 – Evolution of Technology with Simon Jagers

Evolution of Technology with Simon Jagers

It’s my pleasure to welcome back Simon Jaegers to the podcast.

He is one of the founders of Samotics in 2015. His professional career has been spent in technology, usually evolving around either making data, storing it, or processing it. Samotics provides condition monitoring technology based on electrical signature analysis.

In this episode we covered:

  • When we talk about technology evolution, is it similar to how people, animals, reptiles evolve as well? Or is it something completely different?
  • Why is it useful to understand that algorithm?
  • What influences the growth of technologies?

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PR S2:E7 Ryan Chan, CEO of Upkeep Technologies

PR S2:E7 Ryan Chan, CEO of Upkeep Technologies

Ryan Chan, CEO of Upkeep Technologies

Ryan Chan is CEO and Founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. He is a Chemical Engineer from UC Berkeley, was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Manufacturing in 2018, and is part of the Official Forbes Technology Council. Ryan started UpKeep out of passion and frustration by the lack of mobility in today’s maintenance management software. UpKeep has now been deployed to over 10,000 businesses and is a leader in mobile-first maintenance management software.

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TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Suzane Greeman in Episode 26 of this series. Suzane Greeman is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions, a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a senior asset management consultant and instructor in North America working with clients who manage assets in excess of $75 Billion. She has over 23 years of experience across several asset management disciplines and has implemented asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment, airport, and maritime transportation assets.

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QDD 030 Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

QDD 030 Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions

We have good requirements for the reliability of our design. We also have a preliminary design with ideas of how we’re going to manufacture it. Is our design idea good enough? Are there things we should do to improve its performance and reliability?

For a physical product, there are three general stages in its life cycle. In many cases the failure rates of physical products can be represented by a reliability bathtub curve. This curve is really a plot of a hazard rate function, also known as a failure rate function. We talk about data collection in the early design phase, what types of failures are typical for each phase, and design decisions we may make to improve our reliability, based on the failure rate function we plot for our system.

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Helping Products Survive Transportation

Helping Products Survive Transportation

Helping Products Survive Transportation

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

Other than the situation where you build your product inside your customer’s facility, your product will require some form of transportation to move from your factory to your customer. When your product doesn’t work ‘out of box’, that is considered, ‘not good’ for customer satisfaction.
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MD 190 Beyond Safety Compliance W/ Tanya Hewitt

MD 190 Beyond Safety Compliance W/ Tanya Hewitt

MD 190 Beyond Safety Compliance W/ Tanya Hewitt

Is safety one of your companies core values? What is a core value? How can we actually improve safety?

Safety is always a topic at the forefront of maintenance tasks. Are we taking the correct approach to safety? Or is there a better way? This week we welcome Tanya Hewitt to the show to discuss her company, Beyond Safety Compliance. We learned a lot talking with Tanya and we are very excited to bring this episode to you.

Episode Shout Outs:

Tanya Hewitt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-hewitt-55804529/

Beyond Safety Compliance: https://www.beyondsafetycompliance.ca/

Webinar Series: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/beyond-safety-compliance-31631619159

If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted.  If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com

Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted

Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

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RM 082: A Conversation with Solder Paste Expert Paul Salerno

RM 082: A Conversation with Solder Paste Expert Paul Salerno

A Conversation with Solder Paste Expert Paul Salerno

My guest today is Paul Salerno. Paul holds an MBA with specialization in finance and marketing from Rutgers Graduate School of Business. He is the Global Portfolio Manager at MacDermid Alpha Electronic Solutions with expertise in product lifecycle management and development of strategic technology roadmaps for the global surface mount technology business. Paul works with customers in both Europe and Asia with customers in automotive, computing, communications and consumer electronic markets. 

Paul and I discuss soldering materials including “high reliability” solder paste, low and ultra-low solder pastes, and design-for-use solder paste selection processes.

Paul may be reached here:
Paul Salerno
Portfolio Manager, SMT
Assembly Solutions
Paul.Salerno@MacDermidAlpha.com

 

 

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286 – Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

286 – Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

It’s my pleasure to welcome back Fred Schenkel Berg to the podcast.

In this episode we covered:

  • I see a lot of people working remote, maybe not full-time, but part-time as reliability engineers, is this the new normal and can they effectively do their job working remote?
  • Is this identifying gaps in that data that we’ve overcome in other ways, or is it increasing the demand for different types of data?
  • How has the facilitation changed, for example, for facilitating RCA or FMEA, if you’ve seen that done remotely? Well, have you heard of it being done well?

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RM 081: IPC APEX Expo 2022 Technical Program

RM 081: IPC APEX Expo 2022 Technical Program

IPC APEX Expo 2022 Technical Program

On this episode, I spoke with IPC’s Chief Technologist Matt Kelly and IPC Technical Program Co-Chairs Stan Rak (SF Rak Company) and Bev Christian (HDP User Group) about the upcoming IPC APEX Expo 2022 live technical conference.

We discuss the following topics:
• IPC’s “Factory of the Future Pavilion” 
• IPC’s 3-Hour Professional Development Courses (31 courses!)
• IPC’s Technical Program (4 technology tracks each with 29 technical presentations.
• IPC’s Poster Sessions

IPC APEX Expo 2022 takes place January 22-27 in San Diego, CA.
More information is available here:
IPC APEX Expo 2022
https://www.ipcapexexpo.org/

Professional Development Course information is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/uzwwe49b

Technical Conference info is available here:
https://tinyurl.com/2bpcxpzp

 

 

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