Putting People At the Center of Work with Jeff Ma & Mohammad Anwar It is my pleasure to welcome Mohammad Anwar (Founder & CEO, Softway) and Jeff Ma (Director, Softway). In this episode we covered: What is the biggest challenge that you have experienced in leading people and teams and developing that culture overall? In [...]

Smooth Transitions from Cooling to Heating with Mark Orlovsky It’s my pleasure to welcome Mark Orlowski to the podcast. He is a quality warranty and service expert at Modine manufacturing company. In this episode we covered: What is an HVAC system? How do you ensure that HVAC systems are operating at optimum efficiency? Now, if [...]

Secrets of CMMS Implementation with Joseph Schmitt It’s my pleasure to welcome Joseph Schmitt to the podcast. He is a VP of customer success at Upkeep. The team focused on deploying and implementing upkeep at new locations. Our customer success team is focused on driving the post onboarding relationship. It’s really honing in on adoption [...]

Facilitating FMEAs with Bobby Lee It’s my pleasure to welcome Bobby Lee back to the podcast. He is a reliability engineer with irritation. He spent quite a bit of time working on FMEA’s equipment, maintenance plans, RCAs, etc. He has spent about 10 years as a maintenance technician and a reliability engineer. In this episode [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Systems Engineering Approach to Reliability with Andrew Kelleher It is my pleasure to welcome Andrew Keller to the podcast. He is the Managing Director for Rams Men Taught in Germany. I’ve trained as a materials engineer, having spent approximately 20 years working in different aspects of reliability engineering from failure analysis to risk-based inspection, [...]

Habit #4: Decide with Data with Peter Horsburgh It’s my pleasure to welcome back Peter Horsburgh. He is the author of the 'Five Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers.' He has a long history within reliability engineering. He essentially started in manufacturing, then moved to mining, then to power generation, and to aluminum smelting. In this [...]

The Low Hanging Fruit of Lubrication Improvements with Devin Jarrett It’s my pleasure to welcome Devin Jared to the podcast. Devin is a success manager at Noria. He has worked as a processes guy, made a transition over into the technical team, managing projects, then I stepped into the technical consultant role, then now a [...]

281 – Asset Criticality with Gregory Perry Welcome Gregory Perry to the Podcast. Gregory is a Capacity Assurance Consultant at Fluke Reliability. Today we will discuss asset criticality. In this episode we covered: What is asset criticality? Why is it important to organizations? How do organizations determine asset criticalness? What about the ranking system within [...]

280 – Healthy Buildings with Brian Turner Buildings IOT is a: - System integrator - Software developer - Services provider for the built environment: Work spaces, play, and industrial buildings except housing. In this episode we covered: What is a healthy building? Is it more than custodial work? Prior to COVID-19 people rarely talked about [...]

279 – Learning from Metrics with Dan Miller Welcome Dan Miller to the podcast. Our topic will be metrics; how to pick the right KPIs and we will also discuss cornerstone metrics. But first, about Dan: Dan is a maintenance reliability engineer at Global Water Resources. The guest worked as a consultant but currently is [...]

278 – Maintenance Task Analysis with Lucas Marino Welcome Lucas Marino to the podcast. Lucas is the founder of East Partnership and initially spent a lot of time as an engineer with Coast Guard starting off as a diesel engineer and rising through the ranks. Today's topic is maintenance task analysis. But first: In this [...]

277 – Adoption of Mobility with Ryan Chan Welcome Ryan Chan back to the podcast. Today we will discuss mobile work solutions. In this episode we covered: What are mobile work solutions? Why would organizations want to leverage mobile work solutions? Why haven't many organizations implemented mobile solutions? What are mobile work solutions? As it [...]

Driving Asset Answers with Suspect Data with Manjish and Yanpei Welcome our guests to the podcast. We are going to discuss Asset Answers in today's episode. However, briefly about our guests: Yanpei has a background in telecom and smart grid. Currently is working as a product leader at Asset Answers. Manjish is the service lead [...]

275 – Decoding Mechanical Failures: A class experience with Shane Turcott Welcome Shayne who is the author of Decoding Mechanical Failures. More about Shayne and Steel Image: Shayne is a medical engineer working at Steel Image whose primary business is analyzing information on broken parts: how it failed, mechanisms of failure, and whether the part [...]

274 – Dealing with Ramp Up and Degraded Assets with James Reyes-Picknell Welcome James Reyes who is the author of Uptime and many other books, also a principal consultant at Conscious Asset. More about James: Having a career that spans for 44 years, James has worked in different organizations and industries some of which include [...]

273 – Understanding and Leveraging OEE with Ron Moore Welcome Ron back to the podcast. Ron is an author and the founder of RM Group. In this episode we covered: What is OEE? Do companies use OEE simply because it is strategic and tactical? Why does maintenance get blamed for poor OEE? What is OEE? [...]

272 – Operator Care: A Thought Out Approach with Cliff Williams Welcome Cliff Williams back to the Podcast. Cliff is a principal advisor with People and Process as well as TMS Asset Management. The guest has also worked as an asset manager for many years. In this episode we covered: What is operator care? Where [...]

271 – Developing Operational Standards with George Williams and Joe Anderson Welcome Joe Anderson and George Williams back to the podcast. They are the founders of ReliabilityX and are consultants as well as trainers. Briefly about them and Reliability X: Reliability X covers all aspects of reliability; both operational and maintenance, coaching and currently creating [...]

270 – Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg Welcome Fred back to the podcast. Clients are starting to realize that they have to design their systems properly while paying attention to certain tradeoffs. However, tell us where they should start; whether to design for reliability or maintainability. Before starting, the team [...]

The Capabilities Trap with Simon Jagers Welcome Simon back to the podcast. Simon is the founder of Samotics and has been involved in technology throughout his Career. Today we will talk about capabilities trap. Although briefly, tell us more about you: Involved with technology, our guest focuses on: machine learning, and the conversion of data [...]

Understanding & Communicating the Value of PMs with Rick Clonan Welcome Rick Clonan who has been in maintenance for 30 years working both in defense and industry. More about Rick: Currently at SMRP working as implementation and training manager. In this episode we covered: How do we communicate the value of PdM and PM? What [...]

Managing Up with Bobby Lee Welcome Bobby Lee who has been involved in maintenance engineering working for different companies in various capacities. Bobby Lee started out as a maintenance apprentice and has risen through the ranks as a maintenance engineer for over 9 years. In this episode we covered: What does it mean to manage [...]