10 Minute Talk
Ensuring Essential Skills Are Not Lost When Your Senior Employees Retire
As your senior employees retire, you may be worried that their skills will be lost at your plant – you might have already noticed this happening. Dr. Karl Hoffower explains how to conduct a skills gap assessment and use the results to alleviate this problem…
- Karl Hoffower
- Failure Prevention Associates
Terminology and Background of AI Systems
Do you know the difference between AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, data analytics, IIoT, and predictive maintenance? Jason Tranter goes into the definitions with examples…
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
How to Show and Tell Your Progress
Many people are visual learners. They can see slopes and lines and changes from before to after on a graph better than they can grasp a narrative description – especially if the results can be shown on a single slide or handout. Bill Barto shows how to make simple graphs in Excel…
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Real World Examples of Inventory Management
I reached out to several business owners and other consultants to get their real world perspectives on inventory management techniques in their own industries.
- Jeff Roscher
- eWorkOrders
Bearing Problems – Fault Frequency and Artificial Intelligence-Based Methods
The early detection and fault analysis of bearing problems is crucial. When a rolling-element bearing develops flaws on the races and/or rolling elements, there are four vibration frequencies that can result...
- Pawel Lecinski
- CMRP
Your Top Questions about Wireless Sensors – Answered
David Howard addresses some of the most common questions people have about wireless sensors, including topics such as WIFI and range, product life cycle, software and gateway, the maximum temperature a sensor can withstand, battery life, and what happens if a device loses connection…
- Michael Howard, DSc
- ERBESSD-INSTRUMENTS
Root Cause Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster and the Texas City Refinery Explosion
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster and the Texas City Refinery Explosion had many things in common. Both companies had been recently recognized for high safety standards, but reliability failures caused environmental and safety disasters…
- Alan Ross
- Electric Power Reliability Alliance EPRA
The ROI of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Numerous experts have asserted that emotional intelligence and psychological safety make all the difference in the workplace, but how do we convince senior management? Rob Kalwarowsky gives us the data on how a more inclusive, emotionally intelligent workplace impacts the plant’s ROI…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Using Modern Software to Help with Manufacturing Standard Operating Procedures & Compliance
With Computerized Maintenance Management Software, or CMMS, monitoring compliance is simple. Manufacturers can automate SOP completion and preventive maintenance operations to enhance the quality of products..
- Nick Haase
- MaintainX