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Fundamentals of ALT

Fundamentals of ALT

An Introduction, Basic Steps, and Examples of How ALT Goes Wrong

Accelerated Life Testing, ALT, is a technique to estimate the time to failure pattern for an item. In short ALT allows us to shorten time. Done well it provides valuable insights into the future. Done poorly, it is a colossal waste of resources.

In this webinar, let’s talk about the various methods available to you for ALT. How to select the right approach given your specific understanding of the failure mechanism involved. And discuss best and a few worst practices when planning and conducing ALT. [Read more…]

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57 – Change Management and Your Maintenance Program with Shon Isenhour

57 – Change Management and Your Maintenance Program with Shon Isenhour

Change Management and Your Maintenance Program with Shon Isenhour

This episode focuses on the change management and the impact that it can have on your maintenance program. So, what is change management? It occurs at different levels in the organizations but the most basic level—the people level—that makes the organizational culture needs to be tended first. It happens a lot that after the successful planning and scheduling, work execution seems to be fine in the short term but fails horribly in the long term because the change process was not addressed and handled properly at all the critical levels in the organizational framework. So, what things need to be addressed first?
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SOR 219 Marketing, Testing, Standards, and Reliability Claims

SOR 219 Marketing, Testing, Standards, and Reliability Claims

Marketing, Testing, Standards, and Reliability Claims

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Kirk and Fred discussing the question of testing of reliability claims with the many variations of a specification, such as water resistance or any specific performance criteria.
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56 – Are you a Victim of Reliability Drive By with Scott Kelley

56 – Are you a Victim of Reliability Drive By with Scott Kelley

Are you a Victim of Reliability Drive By with Scott Kelley

This episode of the weekly podcast is about reliability drive by that is very common in the organizations that have multiple sites. So how often does this happen and why? What exactly is a reliability drive by? Those organizations that have multiple sites with assets or plants there with teams working there often send their reliability engineers to check the site get any information that they can get in a specified—usually very short time—and then move on to the next sites for doing the same things they did on the previous sites. This is called reliability drive by.
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55 – Reliability from a CMMS Perspective with John Reeve

55 – Reliability from a CMMS Perspective with John Reeve

Reliability from a CMMS Perspective with John Reeve

This episode is about the book, Reliability from a CMMS Perspective by John Reeve that will be coming out this fall. Often times, companies just implement a CMMS into thFailure Dataeir reliability programs and the software doesn’t live up their expectations. So, what exactly goes wrong with such kind of projects? How do they get it right? The simple answer may be is that they expect too much and too fast. The results from any SAAS oriented system take time and they require patience. Then there needs to be some sort of consultation between the reliability engineers and the management of the company if they are ever going to implement a CMMS correctly.
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54 – What Makes a Good Consultant with Fred Schenkelberg

54 – What Makes a Good Consultant with Fred Schenkelberg

What Makes a Good Consultant with Fred Schenkelberg

In this episode, the guest Fred Schenkelberg explains what is a good consultant? Whenever comes the question of performance in an organization—performance of assets—there is always a consultant involved who is helping you make your organization better at what you do. So what is a consultant? The consultants are mainly categorized into three major types. There are contractors who help you set things in motion or strategists who make strategic decisions for you. Then there are facilitators or internal ones who you hire for specific projects so that they can assist you just like an extra set of hands. The last ones are trusted advisors who help you every step of the way and if they are truly capable—which they usually are—with experience and expertise, they can really make a difference with the knowledge and insights that they have.
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53 – The Importance of Leadership in Maintenance with Richard Rierson

53 – The Importance of Leadership in Maintenance with Richard Rierson

The Importance of Leadership in Maintenance with Richard Rierson

This episode is about the leadership that is the very backbone of the successful organizations that perform exceptionally every year and get better and better with time under the experience of the leadership they have. But was it the same from the beginning? No, it wasn’t. Not every leadership is perfect right from the start. There are a lot of phases through which they get and they fail sometimes too but what they don’t do is look weak in front of the people whose entire lives depend on them. The successful leaders get wiser by the time by learning from their mistakes. But is there some sort of special criteria for being a leader? Technically yes but in general terms, every other person can be a leader if he believes so. He just needs to understand what the true meaning of leadership is.
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