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93 – Why Does Everyone Hate Me : How You Can Improve Your Pumpside Manner in 3 Easy Steps with Katie Switzer

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.

In this tell-tale podcast episode, Katie emphasized the importance of interpersonal skills to get along well with other people. Having spent roughly 10 years in Maintenance and Reliability and having experienced the challenge herself, she can attest that synergy is a vital element in organizational cohesiveness and effectivity. And the secret lies in improving one s pumpside manner.

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By |February 20th, 2018|Comments Off on 93 – Why Does Everyone Hate Me : How You Can Improve Your Pumpside Manner in 3 Easy Steps with Katie Switzer

92 – Operational Risk Management Framework with Paul Daoust

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 […]

By |February 13th, 2018|Comments Off on 92 – Operational Risk Management Framework with Paul Daoust

91 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes Picknell Part 2

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 […]

By |February 6th, 2018|Comments Off on 91 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes Picknell Part 2

90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes Picknell Part 1

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 […]

By |January 30th, 2018|Comments Off on 90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes Picknell Part 1

89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

There has always been room for improvement when it comes to reliability and future holds a few surprise to take the predictive maintenance practices to a new level. That new level is prescriptive maintenance. That word is going to be more common in the next few years in the reliability and maintenance industry. Prescriptive maintenance can be defined as a concept that not only includes detecting degrading in the assets well ahead, it also prescribes a solution to mitigate that problem. There are multiple scenarios that you run here to know the potential outcomes and then make a decision about […]

By |January 23rd, 2018|Comments Off on 89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas