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by Christopher Jackson Leave a Comment

SOR 703 Hospital Power Supply Modeling

SOR 703 Hospital Power Supply Modeling

Hospital Power Supply Modeling

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss a real-world problem … how do we use reliability engineering tools to work out how select a hospital power supply system.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance, The Reliability FM network Tagged with: business, modeling, real-world

by George Williams Leave a Comment

PR S2:E6 Matt Schuman, Madison Metropolitan Sewer District

PR S2:E6 Matt Schuman, Madison Metropolitan Sewer District

Matt Schuman, Madison Metropolitan Sewer District

-Graduated from Carthage College with a Degree in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Business

-Work for Caterpillar, Inc. for 5 Years in a newly developed Asset Management Team focused in the Mining division. Worked with Regional Teams to gather data on major component life cycles and repair standards. This data was used to develop Total Cost of Ownership models to assist with life cycle costing on new and existing equipment. Caterpillar was also where he got his first taste of Continuous Improvement through their Green Belt Certification process.

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Filed Under: Practical Reliability Podcast, The Reliability FM network

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

SOR 702 Podcasting and Reliability

SOR 702 Podcasting and Reliability

Podcasting and Reliability

Abstract

James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance, The Reliability FM network Tagged with: podcasting

by Doug Plucknette Leave a Comment

TLC 025 Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

TLC 025 Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Shami Mudunkotuwa in Episode 25 of this series. Shami is is a product of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka and a Chartered Engineer currently working for Ceylon Electricity Board.

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Filed Under: The Leadership Connection, The Reliability FM network

by Dianna Deeney Leave a Comment

QDD 029 Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts

QDD 029 Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts

Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts

Flowcharting isn’t just useful for manufacturing processes. We can use them in lots of ways to help us with design of products and to identify quality characteristics. After all, products are used by people, and the way in which they use them is a process.

  • compare ideal vs. actual flowcharts
  • identify where there is disagreement about correct sequence or steps
  • identify common mistakes/problems at each step to mistake-proof the process and design
  • look for holds or delays, find the critical path

We also talk about specific flowchart analyses and how they can be used to analyze the user process for design.

  • Cost-of-Poor-Quality
  • Critical-to-Quality
  • Value-Added Analysis
  • Deployment Flowchart

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Filed Under: Quality during Design, The Reliability FM network

by Robert Kalwarowsky Leave a Comment

MD 189 Remote Ultrasound Guided Lubrication with Chris Hallum

MD 189 Remote Ultrasound Guided Lubrication with Chris Hallum

MD 189 Remote Ultrasound Guided Lubrication with Chris Hallum

When you combine friction measurement with ultrasound and IoT, you get a game-changer for remote friction-based lubrication.

This week we welcome Chris Hallum from UE Systems to the show to talk all about ultrasound and the OnTrak SmartLube

Episode Shout Outs:

Chris Hallum – https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherhallum/

UE Systems SmartLube: https://www.uesystems.com/ontrak-smartlube/

 

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

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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

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

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

 

Filed Under: Maintenance Disrupted podcast, The Reliability FM network

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

285 – Conserving Water through Proper Sealing Selection with David Brewer

285 – Conserving Water through Proper Sealing Selection with David Brewer

Conserving Water through Proper Sealing Selection with David Brewer

It’s my pleasure to welcome David Brewer to the podcast. He is Atlantic regional manager for SEPCO sealing equipment.

I spend most of my time in paper mills, chemical plants, food processing wastewater treatment plants. I work with distributors and solve problems when it comes to process equipment.

In this episode we covered:

  • What are some of the common things you see come about that we must address when it comes to solving sealing problems?
  • Water conservation is a big deal. Why are organizations so concerned with this right now?
  • Now, where is this water loss occurring?

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Filed Under: Rooted in Reliability: The Plant Performance Podcast, The Reliability FM network Tagged with: conserve, David Brewer, Sealing Selection, water

by Kirk Gray Leave a Comment

SOR 701 Time to Market and Reliability

SOR 701 Time to Market and Reliability

Time to Market and Reliability

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discussing companies making reliability a priority early in the product development as opposed to waiting to after market release to see if it’s reliability.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance, The Reliability FM network Tagged with: time to market

by George Williams Leave a Comment

PR S2:E5 Dan Anderson, Manager, Life Cycle Institute

PR S2:E5 Dan Anderson, Manager, Life Cycle Institute

Dan Anderson, Manager, Life Cycle Institute

Dan Anderson is the Manager of the Life Cycle Institute, the learning, leadership, and change management practice at Life Cycle Engineering (LCE). Dan joined LCE in 2007 as a Learning & Reliability Solutions Consultant. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from The Citadel. In addition, Dan serves as the Secretary for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) where he provides oversight and direction to the SMRP Foundation and Executive Committee. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Practical Reliability Podcast, The Reliability FM network

by Kirk Gray Leave a Comment

SOR 700 Purpose of Accendo Reliability

SOR 700 Purpose of Accendo Reliability

Purpose of Accendo Reliability

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discussing the many years of discussions  on Speaking of Reliability since Fred and Kirk recorded Episode 1 in 2015, six years ago.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance, The Reliability FM network Tagged with: Accendo

by Ryan Chan Leave a Comment

MM S4:E04 Dane Boers

MM S4:E04 Dane Boers

Dane Boers

In this week’s episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Dane Boers, founder of Modla, on the show! Ryan and Dane explore the topic of advanced analytical techniques and the future of analytics in preventive maintenance. Listen today!
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Filed Under: Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, The Reliability FM network

by Doug Plucknette Leave a Comment

TLC 024 Leadership Connection Interview with George Mahoney

TLC 024 Leadership Connection Interview with George Mahoney

Leadership Connection Interview with George Mahoney

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader George Mahoney  in Episode 24 of this series. George Mahoney is currently acting as the Program Manager and Process Optimization Lead for the Source to Settle Organization at Merck.

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Filed Under: The Leadership Connection, The Reliability FM network

by Dianna Deeney Leave a Comment

QDD 028 Design Tolerances Based on Economics (Using the Taguchi Loss Function)

QDD 028 Design Tolerances Based on Economics (Using the Taguchi Loss Function)

Design Tolerances Based on Economics (Using the Taguchi Loss Function)

Defining tolerances for our quality characteristics is sometimes not an easy task. If we set tight tolerances, it could be costly to make with a lot of rejects and rework in the future. If we’re too sloppy with our tolerances, then it can affect the functionality of our product, leading to unhappy customers, and also possible rework and scrap. There’s economics involved in setting-up tolerances.

Genichi Taguchi related his measure of quality (variation from the target spec) with economics, called the Taguchi Loss Function. It’s used to calculate the cost (in money) of a certain deviation from a target value. It assumes that the farther our quality characteristic is from our target value, the more costly it is to us.

We talk about how we can use the Taguchi Loss Functions as a way for us to set tolerances for our designs. Scroll lower to get an interactive tool and the equations.

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Filed Under: Quality during Design, The Reliability FM network

by Christopher Jackson Leave a Comment

Discrete Distributions

Discrete Distributions

Discrete Distributions

how to use them for fleet planning and spare parts analysis

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

Once we have made something really reliable (or really available) … then comes the part where we have to work out how many of them we need (if they make up a fleet) or how many spare parts we need to keep them running. That is where discrete distributions are really helpful. They assign probabilities to ‘discrete’ random variables. These are random variables that can only have certain specified values. Like whole numbers. For example … the number of failures you expect to see in a mission. Or the number of available systems out of a given fleet size. If this sounds like something that could help you out … see you for this webinar!
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Filed Under: Accendo Reliability Webinar Series, The Reliability FM network

by Robert Kalwarowsky Leave a Comment

MD 188 RCA as a System w/ Bob Latino

MD 188 RCA as a System w/ Bob Latino

MD 188 RCA as a System w/ Bob Latino

When do you do RCAs? Is it one off? Have you thought about how RCA can be a system?

This week we welcome Bob Latino back to the show to talk all about RCA and his new book!

Episode Shout Outs:

Bob Latino – https://www.linkedin.com/in/boblatino/

Bob’s new book –  https://www.routledge.com/Lubrication-Degradation-Getting-into-the-Root-Causes/Mathura-Latino/p/book/9781032171579

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/

 

Filed Under: Maintenance Disrupted podcast, The Reliability FM network

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