Doug Plucknette, Consultant
Tim interviews Doug Plucknette a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and RCM Blitz®.
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Tim interviews Doug Plucknette a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and RCM Blitz®.
by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment
Most of the organization in the maintenance and reliability industry don’t have a consistent improvement in the plant production or they are not making progress at the rate they should after investing that many resources they put in the sites. The problem occurs when you don’t have an effective corporate reliability group and that is a structured unit that is actively involved in visiting your sites, reviewing your business processes, and then helping you achieve your organization’s goals by doing everything that needs to be done. They are the ones who help you see your vision for your organization see clearly.
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by Carl S. Carlson Leave a Comment
Carl and Fred discussing the role of standards in reliability programs.
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Most people struggle with their jobs, not necessarily due to the lack of technical know-how, but because getting along well with others seems to be a challenge. This is one of the pain points that many reliability engineers and professionals are facing.
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by Carl S. Carlson Leave a Comment
Carl and Fred reply to a question from a listener about the location of the reliability group, and expand on the earlier podcast on this topic.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the continued need to change much of the activities in reliability engineering in the goal of ensuring and improving the reliability of electronics and electro-mechanical systems.
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by Tim Rodgers Leave a Comment
Tim interviews Dr. Mohammad Modarres about the Center for Risk and Reliability at the U of Maryland and the value of an advanced degree in reliability.
by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment
Some products and systems are just dangerous, inherently. Understanding inherent safety-related risks permit a team to design out or mitigate those risks. Hazard analysis is the systematic process identify and control safety risks.
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When you are striving towards excellence in maintenance and reliability, there are a lot of activities that you have to perform to avoid any risks. The asset management is one of the top activities that goes on in the organizations and there can be certain risks involved while performing different operations in this phase. That’s why you need better insights to foresee the risks and try to mitigate them effectively. This is where operational risk management framework helps you to reduce and control the risks. You can identify the operational risks earlier and perform regulatory compliance more safely than ever.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the history of our Speaking of Reliability podcasts and the changes needed in approaches to reliability engineering and the need for leaders to continue practical and efficient reliability development.
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by Christopher Jackson 1 Comment
Are the stereotypes of either truly indicative of reliability engineers in ways that can hurt your organization?
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by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment
In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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by Adam Bahret Leave a Comment
Adam and Fred discussing the challenge and best practices for reporting on product and program issues.
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by Adam Bahret Leave a Comment
Adam and Fred discussing the disconnect between project plans for significant reliability activities and the common compromise of minimal reliability analysis and testing in a program.
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