Rob Allen, Consultant
Tim interviews Rob Allen a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and phase gate product development processes.
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Tim interviews Rob Allen a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and phase gate product development processes.
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Adam and Fred discussing Reliability Standards and how to use them
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Adam and Fred discussing how to ensure reliability test and analysis tool output affects program decisions
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The reliability and maintenance process is never static in the organizations. There’s always something going on around and there are many activities being performed in the company. Now, these activities take time and need money to be done successfully. There are many activities in this list that will cost you millions sometimes. So, how do we get that kind of investment from our financiers? Some of the stakeholders can be convinced by merely good talks and promises of great success but the technical personnel who have spent all their lives running businesses, they can’t be persuaded by such means.
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Carl and Fred discuss how fear can keep us from achieving our goals, and strategies to overcome our fears.
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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of leadership, and how it applies to reliability engineering and management.
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by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment
Every once in a while, there comes an amazing new technology that changes the way of living for people. Internet of Things and Big data are such trending technologies that have revolutionized the lives of everyone. With IoT, you can stay in touch with a lot of things like there are smart TVs, smart cars, and all those wonderful appliances that make your everyday household work easier to a great level of comfort. There is another side of IoT and that is Industrial IoT or IIoT. There are so many changes going around in the industry because of a huge wave of what IoT and Machine learning can do.
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Adam and Chris discussing methods for structure and implementation of Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
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Adam and Chris discussing the challenges of creating a new reliability organization as an individual.
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The ability to determine a root cause of a failure is a skill. It requires agility, leadership, inquisitiveness, diligence, and technical skill. Successful RCA taps into your creativity and technical prowess. Using a structured approach helps.
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There are many things going on in organizations concurrently and they can’t decide everything on an immediate basis. This is something that leads to a lot of clashes and similar problems. Sometimes, you want to do something and you can’t find the necessary resources that you need to do it successfully—even though you know it’s the right thing to do. But you can just take unplanned initiatives because they are always a disaster. Don’t start anything that you have to struggle with later on. Make sure your business processes are in place and make your systems work based on those.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how sometimes we get accustomed to a product starting to wear out when it is still functioning, and how long can we go without replacement.
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Kirk and Fred discussing comments we have received throughout the history of “Speaking of Reliability”. In this podcast we discuss one of the questions “should I calculate an average MTTR or MTBF ? “. We review the reasons that calculating an average time to or between failures does little to help make more reliable systems. ᐅ Play Episode
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There are times when companies look for bringing in a new piece of equipment or implement a system that makes their work easier. They install it properly and put a lot of effort into making that equipment work with the other systems in place but the results still don’t meet their expectations. So, what else can they do to make the outcome desirable? That is what should be taken into account in the design phase because if you have the design exactly right, it is easier to fix things when failures occur.
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Carl and Fred discussing the organization of the reliability activity and the benefits and shortcomings of locating reliability in different departments.
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