Podcasts about reliability engineer

Is technology your silver bullet—or a shiny distraction? In this episode of Reliability Radio, Jason Smith of ABS Consulting joins us at IMC to cut through the noise. You'll hear: Why your CMMS upgrade won't save you without clean data What makes culture the real foundation of success How top-down AND bottom-up leadership fuels lasting change Why community, not competition, is key to growth

A Good Reliability Engineer Abstract Kirk and Fred discuss a simple question of what being a practical and sound reliability engineer means. Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the different aspects of reliability engineering and what they need to be a good reliability engineer Topics include: The results of effective reliability development […] The post SOR 1053 A Good Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Nobody graduates college as a reliability engineer—it's a journey you grow into. In this episode of Reliability Radio, JLL's Matthew Tingsanchali shares his story—from wrenching on cars to earning a CRL Black Belt. He opens up about early challenges, real-world lessons from implementing programs, and why the CRL framework helped bring it all together. Whether you're just starting out or deep in your reliability career, this episode is a reminder that leadership isn't a title—it's a mindset.

Reliability Engineer or No Abstract Enrico and Fred discuss about the role of the reliability engineer in modern organizations. Key Points Join Fred and Enrico in an engaging conversation about the evolving role of the reliability engineer in organizations and the broader question: Should reliability engineering be a dedicated function, or should it be integrated […] The post SOR 1044 Reliability Engineer or No appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

How do you decide what training is worthwhile? How do you tell if it is effective training? How much internal vs external training is planned? What are some methods to weigh personal development vs business needs? Can training be tied to department performance? Learn how one maintenance veteran optimized training needs.Speaker:Lee McClish – Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC AmericasLee is currently the Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas, a global telecommunications and data center company. His previous positions were held with BASF, Graphic Packaging and Packaging Corporation of America as a Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, RCM Manager and Production Manager. He also served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer. He holds a BSME, MBA, CMRP, CRL, CPMM. He is the author of a recent book “Maintenance Leadership 101” published through Reliability Web and available on Amazon.► Register for an upcoming webinar here: https://flukereliability.info/bpw-frr

Harshala Patil explains how she got involved in quality, the importance of quality across industries, and what drew her into the manufacturing world. Patil is a Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer for the world's second-largest semiconductor technology company, consistently ranked as a Top 10 global brand. As a Quality project leader, she brings expert experience in electrical and microelectronics engineering, with a career focus on process integration and quality reliability engineering management in the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry; designs, executes, and analyzes process flow experiments; and collaborates with fab engineering teams to mitigate risk and ensure quality standards.

In too many organizations, we hear about the need to align the goals to drive better value, but no one wants to change what they or what they are measured by. In this special episode of Reliability Radio, we sit down with Ron Moore and have a frank conversation about what works and what doesn't work in the effort to achieve actual inter-department cooperation and partnership. Everyone on the reliability journey needs to tune in to this one!

What can it do for me in Reliability and Asset Management? There are a lot of solutions in the market to help leverage data to create information with context to make decision. Jon Mortensen from IFS joins us to discuss this concept and what the capabilities are to unlock the power of data to move the needle on value creation at an organization.

New condition monitoring solutions are coming to the market with an ever increasingly frequency with updated features, firmware, and accessories. However, every once in a while, a new solution comes along that turns everyone's head. It's not very often that we hear about two titans in the condition monitoring space coming together to create a new solution. We have a chat about the union between Teledyne Flir Systems and UE Systems that led to the creation of the SI2 Acoustic Imaging Camera. Learn about this new technology with Graham Fonseca of UE Systems and Rob Milner from Teledyne Flir.

In the world of condition monitoring, we've come a long way to get our results better, faster, and more accurate. The advancement of technology has allowed all of us to self-perform just about every facet of condition monitoring and more importantly, leverage the results together to make decisions. However, there is one technology that most practitioners still don't do themselves and is often disconnected, Fluid Analysis. Listen in as we talk with Jack Poley on state of fluid analysis in industry today, why it's important to bring it into the fold with other technologies, and a clear vision of its future.

Performing self-assessments to gauge where you have been an important step in determining areas of strength and for identifying needs for improvements. Whether you are just starting your reliability journey, restarting a program, or just getting a grasp of the current status, assessments are crucial for awareness. Additionally aligning your programs to the Uptime® Elements gives them a parallel to a common understanding of reliability standards. Were you aware that there are two assessments that give an organization's maturity, using the Uptime Elements? We talk with Russ Parish of ReliabilityWeb as we go over the need for reliability assessments, the Asset Analytix RAM-GPS assessment, and the new Uptime Elements-GPS assessment.

When you go to a health care provider, hospital, or outpatient center, the reliability of the equipment should be the furthest thing from your mind. With the potential effects of a failure includes risk to bodily harm, reliability isn't an option, it's an imperative. We speak with David Lockhart from Kaiser Permenente on the history, current state, and future of reliability in the health care sector.

Are you curious about just what the Association of Asset Management Professionals (AMP) is all about? Join us for this episode of Reliability Radio where we have a conversation with Jim Carrel from Forum Reliability, a Reliability Partner, about his volunteer work with AMP, its benefits for the Reliability and Asset Management community, the Certifications it provides, and his work with Forum Reliability. Don't miss this information packed podcast!

Being able to convince executive leadership of the value of reliability can be daunting. We've all heard of the concept of an “Elevator Pitch” but what about the need to have a FIVE SECOND PITCH to get attention! On this episode, we speak with Tom Woginrich of IBM about the need beef up our value statements for reliability to ensure executive sponsorship.

Networking is one of the best parts of any Reliabilityweb.com event. The chance to meet people who are working in the same field and learn from them has become the best part of conferences like IMC. Going through the crowd and finding others who just might have some advice to help you with your reliability efforts. We have a discussion with George Parada about his personal reliability journey, what his challenges and successes have been.

ABB is widely known for being an industry leader in industrial electrical and instrumentation technology, products, and services. What is not so widely known is that ABB can take all the data coming off those devices and provide meaningful analytics. In this podcast, Ryan Conger from ABB opens our eyes to the vast wealth of hidden data that can utilized from ABB devices in truly groundbreaking ways.

John Todd joins Charli on this weeks episode.John has 30+ years of business and technical experience in the Project Management, Process development/improvement, Quality/ISO/CMMI Management, Technical Training, Reliability Engineering, Maintenance, Application development, Risk Management, & Enterprise Asset Management fields. His experience includes work as a Reliability Engineer & RCM implementer for NASA/JPL Deep Space Network, as well as numerous customer projects and consulting activities as a reliability and spares analysis expert. When needed, John works closely with clients and their third-party validation teams to ensure implementations meet FDA requirements for hosted and cloud-based software solutions. He has honed his project management, business, engineering, functional and technical consulting skills through his engagements with clients across the spectrum of industry and Government. Recently, in the product research role, John is very active in the creation of content for TRM blogs, webinars, conference sessions, eBooks, YouTube, and other media.Connect with John on LinkedInCheck out TRM's Youtube ChannelRead up at EmpoweringPumps.com and stay tuned for more news about EPIC in Atlanta this November!Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com 

Did you know that there are thousands of CRLs, but only 20 CRL black belts? Listen to this podcast where we have a chat with Kendra Mock and Jon Cameron on their reliability journey to becoming CRL black belts to help you chart your own course towards CRL certification and beyond.

Convincing leadership of the need for a reliability program can be hard to find sometimes. Getting and maintaining executive sponsorship requires identifying and actioning an organization's need. We have a conversation with Eric Ayanegui from Cintas where we discuss Cintas's reliability journey well over the course of a decade from being first introduced to reliability to an Uptime Award winning organization.

What is the most effective method?Does your company perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or just failure analysis? What distinguishes these tools and when are they appropriate? Does your company have a written policy or procedure? Are these performed routinely after an incident or notable failure? Listen to one company's process, challenges and successes in initiating an RCA program.Speaker:Lee McClish – Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC AmericasLee is currently the Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas, a global telecommunications and data center company. His previous positions were held with BASF, Graphic Packaging and Packaging Corporation of America as a Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, RCM Manager and Production Manager. He also served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer. He holds a BSME, MBA, CMRP, CRL, CPMM. He is the author of a recent book “Maintenance Leadership 101” published through Reliability Web and available on Amazon.► Register for an upcoming webinar here: https://flukereliability.info/bpw-frr

The term Industry 4.0 has been around the reliability and asset management space for a while now. One of the main examples of solutions that associated with Industry 4.0 has been the integration of systems and generative AI to increase efficiency and improve quality. Sean Gregerson from AVEVA sits down with us in this podcast and takes us through examples of AVEVA's Industry 4.0 solutions.

Are you trying to leverage Maximo to enhance your organization's reliability journey? The Reliability Leadership Foundation has a virtual special interest group dedicated to the use of Maximo for the Uptime® Elements. Listen to our discussion with Dave Reiber and Matthew Boehne about this transformational work to enable Maximo users in utilizing the Uptime Elements.

Want to hear some insight from executives on how they view reliability? Listen to this podcast where JLL Work Dynamics's Global COO Paul Morgan and America COO Carey Sealy discuss their perspective on why they support reliability initiatives.

We are back with another installment of our Exploring Tech Job Series where we dig into different technical roles and give you all some insight into what that role is actually about. This week we are chatting about Database Reliability Engineers (DBREs) and are joined by a real-life DBRE, Zoe! Join us as we chat about what the role is, the day-to-day of the job, how you might get into a DBRE role, and so much more. Links Message Zoe on LinkedIn for more questions Check out the book about Database Reliability Engineering that Zoe mentioned New episodes come out fortnightly on Wednesday morning (NZT). Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠Tik Tok⁠⁠⁠ @hot_girls_code to keep up to date with the podcast & learn more about being a women in tech!

Industrial Talk is onsite at SMRP 31 and talking to Paul Crocker, Sr. Reliability Engineer at Reliability X about "Ensuring your asset management training aligns with technology".  Here are some of the key takeaways from our conversation: Industrial asset management and reliability with a guest speaker. 0:03 Paul is a reliability engineer with 29 years of experience in maintenance and asset management. At Reliability X, Paul focuses on ensuring clean and drinkable water through asset management and reliability. Paul discusses a utility implementation project that has taken around 3 years, with ongoing development and legacy data issues. Paul and Scott MacKenzie discuss the challenges of implementing new systems while still dealing with existing issues and lack of end-user experience. Implementing an enterprise system development approach. 5:01 Scott MacKenzie and Paul discuss challenges with enterprise system development, including data cleaning and legacy systems. Paul advises against translating old systems into new ones, instead focusing on understanding new system's functionality and mapping processes. Paul provides a tour of their old system to new employees to help them understand its functionality and processes. Paul highlights the importance of mapping out processes before implementing a new system, saving time and money in the long run. Scott MacKenzie agrees, emphasizing the value of identifying gaps and improving processes, rather than simply accepting the status quo. Reliability engineering and asset management. 11:30 Scott MacKenzie and Paul discuss the implementation of a big project across different departments in a utility company. They talk about the challenges of aligning distribution, transmission, generation, and substations, and how the project is being implemented in a geographically diverse manner. Scott MacKenzie interviews Paul Crocker on reliability engineering and asset management. Paul Crocker shares insights on the importance of collaboration and education in the industry. Finally, get your exclusive free access to the Industrial Academy and a series on “Why You Need To Podcast” for Greater Success in 2024. All links designed for keeping you current in this rapidly changing Industrial Market. Learn! Grow! Enjoy! PAUL CROCKER'S CONTACT INFORMATION: Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pcrockerkck/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reliabilityx/ Company Website: https://reliabilityx.com/ PODCAST VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gW5v3ehS6uc THE STRATEGIC REASON "WHY YOU NEED TO PODCAST":

There are a lot of acronyms in reliability and asset management. Many of them are centered around the system that organizations use to track daily business and maintenance activities such as CMMS, ERP, and EAM. Pop quiz – Can you tell me the difference between them and what they are used for? If not, this podcast can help. We speak with the Global CTO of IFS, Jon Mortensen, who explains the differences between each of these three types of systems and what IFS can offer organizations interested in implementing them.

Have you ever experienced a program's collapse after someone retired or left your organization? Need some guidance or examples on how to make a system sustainable regardless of the individuals involved? In this podcast, we have a chat with John Fortin about his work at the Salem Beverly Water Supply Board and what earned them a Special Recognition Uptime Award for Best Sustainability Program.

Most people in manufacturing either use or know of John Crane's pump products, but were you aware that John Crane is more than just pump seals? Come and listen to our conversation with Barney Graham and Mike Judd from John Crane on their host of reliability and asset management services for their clients.

Maximo® users were introduced to MAS 8 in 2021 and we are still discussing how can those organizations make the switch. It can be a daunting task to go through a CMMS upgrade or conversion alone while trying to optimize Maximo for your needs. Solution providers can provide insight and support to help. We speak with the CEO of Maven, Jennifer Gatza, who walks us through how Maven incorporates the concerns and challenges of Maximo users to deliver best of breed solutions for Maximo implementations.

Just in case you aren't aware of all the opportunities to help accelerate your personal reliability journey, we've got you covered. We sit down with Maura Abad, Vice President of Reliabilityweb.com, to discuss all of the community driven activities, consortiums, and virtual special interest groups to get you caught up. The reliability and asset management community thrives here at Reliabilityweb.com events like IMC. The Reliability Leadership Foundation continues to promote topics to help advance, promote, and to empower reliability professionals.

What's coming next for the Reliability and Asset Management community? We got a chance to sit down with Publisher and CEO of Reliabilityweb.com, Terrence O'Hanlon and talk about his perspective of the new trends and opportunities in the reliability space. A can't miss episode with a one of a kind thought leader!

For those who don't know, there is a group within the Association of Asset Management Professionals (AMP) dedicated to engaging and empowering women as leaders who advance reliability and asset management in their organizations and the world. In this episode, we speak with WIRAM members Jennifer Jordan and Lauren Crimi on their perspective and experience in the reliability and asset management.

There's a new book on the shelves, “Embrace Industry 4.0!: Architect Your Way Out of the Jungle” In this podcast, we have a discussion with the main author Gail Petersen and contributing author Jack Lucy on this new publication and their experiences in the industry bringing Industry 4.0.

Ron Moore is a well-respected voice in the Reliability and Asset Management community. From his published works “Making Common Sense Common Practice” to “What tool? When?” Ron has been delivering sage advice to help people understand what their needs really are and how to address them. In this podcast, we talk to Ron about his work on his book “Defect List: A Common Sense approach to Defect Elimination.” Hosted by Jonathan Guiney, CRL-BB, CMM & Brendon Russ, CRL-BB from JLL.

In my experience, there are three major influences on culture:Individual team members – Do they work together? Do they feel their voice is heard? Do they enjoy going to work every day?Supervision / management – Do they have an open door policy? Do they listen to employees? Are they willing to take acceptable risks with new ideas?Corporate – Are they driven by only the bottom line? Do they provide too much oversight?Easy efforts to improve the culture positively include ensuring that corporate, plant, department goals are clear, posted and understood, that communication occurs frequently at all levels, and that appropriate personnel are involved at the right level for decision making.Speaker:Lee McClish – Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC AmericasLee is currently the Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas, a global telecommunications and data center company. His previous positions were held with BASF, Graphic Packaging and Packaging Corporation of America as a Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, RCM Manager and Production Manager. He also served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer. He holds a BSME, MBA, CMRP, CRL, CPMM. He is the author of a recent book “Maintenance Leadership 101” published through Reliability Web and available on Amazon.► Register for an upcoming webinar here: https://flukereliability.info/bpw-frr

Charli is back from Uganda and excited to share about her trip! (Blog post coming)Andre is joining Charli this week to kick off December talking about ReliabilityAndré-Michel Ferrari is a Reliability Engineer who specializes in Reliability Analytics and Modeling which are fundamental to improving asset performance and output in industrial operations. He has approximately 30 years of industrial experience mainly in Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, and Quality Systems Implementation. His experience includes world-class companies in the Brewing, Semiconductor, and Oil & Gas industries in Africa, Europe and North America. Throughout his career, André-Michel has strived to provide his customers and peers with practical and effective solutions to improve asset performance, optimize financial spend and improve maintenance strategies. He has published multiple articles on Reliability Engineering Processes and been a regular conference speaker over the last 10 years. He has also mentored countless new engineers and is a passionate contributor to the “Women in STEM” programs.André-Michel is a Professional Engineer based in Alberta, Canada as well as a Certified Reliability Engineer with the American Society for Quality. His academic credentials include an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from École d'Ingénieurs de Marseille, France (1994) and an M.Eng. in Engineering Management from the University of Alberta (2010). He is the owner at Cogito Reliability Inc. (https://cogitoreliability.com/) Read up at EmpoweringPumps.com and stay tuned for more news about EPIC in Atlanta this November!Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com

本期请到的嘉宾是张小白女士，讲讲从“生化环材”传统天坑的坑底出发，一步步打怪升级的心路历程。合作：contactchatla@gmail.com时间轴：00:33 阴差阳错选到的天坑专业，其实还挺好玩？03:28 化工专业就业：找不到工作只能继承家业？06:40 Quality Engineer是做什么的？08:51 第一份工作：小作坊银杏叶片组装，从入门到精通12:43 第二份工作：老板的大饼，从入门到放弃18:09 第三份工作： 养老公司，你有躺平焦虑吗？ 21:15 Reliability Engineer又是做什么的？25:27 大厂打工，最喜欢和最不喜欢的事？30:13 也来谈谈北美大厂的work life balance32:12 如何应对毕业求职过程中的迷茫与困惑？37:35 如何看待毕业后的第一份工作？ 40:33 结尾的一小碗鸡汤

How much is a reliability engineer worth? This is a very difficult question to answer ... especially by reliability engineers! We are often very guilty of simply saying we are really valuable without explaining why, what that means, providing examples, or putting dollar figures on it. So how valuable is a reliability engineer? The post SOR 878 The Worth of a Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

In this episode of Gear Talk, Wes is joined by Daniel Rader, Reliability Engineer at L3Harris Technologies, to discuss the proactive side of reliability and how we design reliability into our systems and into our machines.

What does a reliability engineer do? This should be an easy question to answer. But it is not often answered well. 'Measuring reliability' is not reliability engineering. So what is it? The post SOR 875 What Should a Reliability Engineer Do appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Part of Quality during Design is using reliability engineering as part of the design process.We're warming up to the topic this week with a QDD Redux episode - pulling an episode from our archive from last year that's a good overview of some things we'll be getting more into.Next week, I'm interviewing a Reliability Engineer as part of the series A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts.  You won't want to miss it! So, let's stretch and warm-up to Reliability during Design! ===========================We're uncovering risks during our new product development, about our design. How do we manage risks? What options do we have?There are at least 5 options we can take to manage risks. We talk about each, and how quality and reliability methods and techniques may help us with the next steps to be able to make decisions with our team.Visit the podcast blog for links to episodes that explore concepts a little deeper.Support the show**FREE RESOURCES**Quality during Design engineering and new product development is actionable. It's also a mindset. Subscribe for consistency, inspiration, and ideas at www.qualityduringdesign.com. About meDianna Deeney helps engineers work with their cross-functional team to reduce concept design time and increase product success, using quality and reliability methods. She founded Quality during Design through her company Deeney Enterprises, LLC. Her vision is a world of products that are easy to use, dependable, and safe – possible by using Quality during Design engineering and product development.

You can become a great communicator. Let's explore how you can improve your skills and enhance your ability to do your work. The post Communicating as a Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

What words cause the most problems in MedTech, and what situations should you be ready to handle when you work in Quality? Today's guest wrote about these issues in his book and will be talking more about them in today's interview.Kevin Becker has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Master's degree in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland. Kevin is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, and Six Sigma Black Belt with experience as a Quality/Reliability Engineer, Quality Manager, Director of Engineering, and Director of Quality in the medical device field. Kevin has authored and co-authored published papers in the areas of reliability, probabilistic risk assessment, and measurement correlation and has written a book titled Quality Myths and Lessons Learned.Listen to the episode to hear what Kevin has to say about ethical considerations in Quality, Quality's PR problem, and why having a principle-based decision-making process matters. Some of the highlights of this episode include:What prompted Kevin to start a consulting businessExamples of things few engineers realizeHow you grow the muscle of realizing what you're incentivizingWhat a quality engineer might specifically be interested in with regard to ethicsGray areas in ethicsHow to use flow chartsHaving a principle-based decision-making processHow a competitive culture can lead to pushing the rulesOvercoming peer pressure in the industryThe most important part of a quality management systemMemorable quotes from Kevin Becker:“Communication is another issue that is really difficult for engineers. They should be good at it, but they're not.”“The worst possible answer is wrong but believable.”“I've seen some flow charts that have a lot of circular loops, and I don't think they help make things clearer.”“The goal of any company should be: recognize (ethical deterioration) long before it gets to an ethical or, even worse, legal consideration, and then take action to correct it in a timely fashion.Links:Kevin Beckers LinkedInQuality Myths & Lessons Learned BookEtienne Nichols LinkedInGreenlight Guru AcademyMedTech Excellence CommunityGreenlight Guru

New to maintenance supervision or management? Maybe you are a maintenance veteran. Wondering where to start or what roadmap to follow? The leadership concepts presented can be extended to any industry. Prepare for twenty-five years of experience summed up for a concise set of tools and tips as a jump start toward maintenance excellence.Speaker:Lee McClish, Director of Maintenance and Reliability, NTT GDC AmericasLee McClish is the Director of Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas, a global telecommunications and data center company. His previous positions were held with BASF, Graphic Packaging and Packaging Corporation of America as a Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, RCM Manager and Production Manager. He also served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer. He holds a BSME, MBA, CMRP, CRL, CPMM. He is the author of a recent book “Maintenance Leadership 101” published through Reliability Web and available on Amazon.Attend an upcoming webinar: https://flukereliability.info/bpw-frr

Let's explore the various stages of a career in reliability engineering, from getting started, to being competent, to becoming great. The post Being a Great Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Michael Guns speaks about what it's like to be an attendee at the International Maintenance Conference. What his team is learning, what advancements can they make, and crystalizing their strategy.  Michael speaks about what kind of awarness training is critical for your team at work and at a conference.  Michael speaks about how their product is their students. How that relates to ROI and the way they look at maintenace. 

Reliability Web Radio speaks with Sean Mullan, Corporate Reliability Engineer at 3M about the cultural shift from traditional maintenance to reliability and digitization. Incorporating the Uptime Elements, 3M is juggling the task of this shift while facing the unique obstacles encountered by a global, long standing company taking on such a paradigm change. In five years, they have gone from one CRL to more than twelve and doing so embraced the opportunities that the Uptime Elements are designed around to maximize asset value and longevity and minimize risk and waste.

Today we're talking to Achilleas Dorotheou, Head of Human Motion at Parker Hannifin. And we discuss how Achilleas and his team are building exoskeletons that help paralyzed people walk. How they worked with Apex Ridge Reliability to make sure these exoskeletons don't fail in the field, and the future of the medical exoskeleton industry.  All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Learn more about powered exoskeletons at https://www.indego.com/ In case you missed it: check out our episode with Adam Bahret, Owner and Reliability Engineer at Apex Ridge Reliability.

Today we're talking to Adam Bahret, Owner & Reliability Engineer at Apex Ridge Reliability. And we discuss what it's like consulting for Boston Dynamics, Boeing, Amazon Robotics, and more. How to see the crazy high ROI of reliability engineering, and why it's imperative to catch errors in a product early.  All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast!  Learn more about Apex Ridge and Reliability Culture at https://apexridge.com Check out Adam's upcoming Webinar, The Alchemy of Rapidly Transforming New Technology into Must-have Products” on Monday 1/10 at 3:00 EST

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Louise Harris: Hello and welcome to the Government Digital Service Podcast. My name is Louise Harris and I head up the Creative and Channels Team at GDS. In this episode, we're talking about our wonderful technologists. The Site Reliability Engineers, Technical Architects and Developers who work in multidisciplinary teams to engineer solutions to our complex architectural needs, evolve our infrastructure and tooling to keep us resilient and online, and develop digital products and services used by millions of people across the UK, and that are emulated by governments around the world.    Technologists are a mainstay of how we help government transform and tackle complexity for users. Think about GOV.UK: it's actually 50 front and back end applications that are independently hosted and maintained that enable us to host over a million pages, deal with millions of visits a day and fend off regular Denial-of-Service attacks. But thanks to our technologists, all our end users see is a single site they can access day and night to get the information they need from government.    Tackling that kind of complexity is not always easy, but it's definitely worthwhile. And it's what GDS is here to do. Today I'm delighted to be joined by Himal Mandalia and Louise Ryan to talk about the important role GDS technologists play. Louise, Himal, why don't you introduce yourselves to our listeners and tell us a bit about your roles.   Louise Ryan:  Hello, I'm Louise Ryan, I'm the Lead Technical Architect and Head of Technology in Government as a Platform. I joined GDS just under 4 years ago and I joined us from the private sector where I worked in a digital agency as a Technical Architect.   Himal Mandalia:  And I'm Himal, I'm Head of Technology for GOV.UK, and I joined about 5 months ago, and I've been working in digital circles for about 6 years as a contractor in several roles, including Developer, Technical Architect and a Technology Advisor.   Louise Harris:  So, Louise, it sounds like we've been lucky enough to have you at GDS for a couple of years now, and Himal, we've recently lured you over from another part of government. What is it that appeals to you both about working at GDS?   Louise Ryan:  Oh wow. Such, such a big question. There's so much to like about GDS and working in digital in government in general, really. I always like refer people to the GOV.UK Design Principles and the Service Standard. So if you take a look at that, it's all about doing things the right way, about doing things for everybody, having a multidisciplinary team focussing on what the actual problems are, not solutionising. Building services, not just websites, so we continuously improve things. All sorts of that stuff, but also the tech we use is really cool as well. So it's, it's pretty modern stuff: lots of Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery and lots of automated testing. Yeah, I mean, I could go on for a long, long time, but this is a, you know I think it's a brilliant place to work and I love it.   Louise Harris:  And Louise, just, just for our listeners who are maybe less familiar with Government as a Platform, or what we call GaaP, can you just run us through a bit what it's all about?   Louise Ryan:  So Government as a Platform [GaaP], is a suite of digital services designed to meet common needs which can be quickly integrated into-into other service teams services. This helps reduce duplication, variation and it-it enables other digital teams to build their digital solutions much quicker, much faster, much more efficiently.   In terms of what the various services do, Notify is, is an extremely busy service. It's used by, I think around 4,700 other services. That's around 1000 organisations across the public sector using it. So it's scaling at around 120 new services joining every month. So that is, that's pretty big. So in, in, in terms of the last year, they've seen a-a 25 fold increase in volume of messages. And so that was a massive scaling challenge for the team that they, they just really smashed out the park. They're mostly hosted on the PaaS, which is really cool, and it's kind of asynchronous architecture so there's a lot of queues helping us process messages. You know it enables us to scale and enables us to retry when things break. So it's,it's good architecture.    [GOV.UK] Pay take payments, take card payments for your digital services. It also, you can also use Apple Pay and Google Pay to pay for stuff. I think one of the main selling points of Pay is how much we care and test about the, the journey, the paying experience for people who use assistive technologies. So we really put a lot of effort into making sure it works really well for everybody. That's built mostly on Fargate, and, and uses some you know, it's got to be PCI [Payment Card Industry] compliant, so it's a, it's a complex, necessarily complex architecture. It scales really well and it's been used by, I think, over 550 large services now, and it's processed over a billion pounds.   [GOV.UK] Platform as a Service: you host your, you can use Platform as a Service to host your web apps in the cloud without relying on, without worrying about the infrastructure underneath. So you can build your app in Python, Ruby or Rust or pop it in a container and then push it up to PaaS. And there you go, you've got a running app in the cloud. Also provides a bunch of backend services you can use. So backend services means databases like PostgreSQL, things like ElasticSearch or queue services like simple queue service from AWS. That's, that's the scale of this is, is, is very impressive. It's being used by just over 121 organisations and between the two regions in London and Ireland that it's hosted in, it's hosts, it's running around 2,800 apps at the moment. And they're processing an amazing amount of incoming requests: so we've got an average of around 300 requests per second coming through those pipes. So that's quite cool.   And then we've got the Design System and the Prototype Kit Team. The Design System look after GOV.UK frontend, which is that set of styles, patterns and components that other teams use to build their frontend. What's really important about those patterns and components is that they've been researched extensively and tested extensively across a vast array of digital devices and operating systems and with real people and with assistive devices. So we can be sure that they're, you know they're, they're working. So obviously we do that once so service teams around the country don't have to keep doing that work. It really is an open source project as well, the Design System. It actively seeks contributions from the design and frontend communities a-across, across government. And that's, that's really cool. And it's yeah, it's used quite. It's, GitHub tells me it's, it's in use by over 2,600 other repositories.   Louise Harris:  That must be so cool to be involved in work that's being forked off, and used in so many other contexts. Is it safe to say that there's some stuff that you can get done at GDS that maybe you can't get done elsewhere?   Louise Ryan:  Yeah, I think it is. We are at the centre of government, being part Cabinet Office. If we're not going to do it in the centre, then it's not just gonna magically happen elsewhere in government. Those tools exist so other service teams can-can really benefit from having things done once really well in the centre so they don't have to keep reinventing that wheel. They can-they can just get started really quickly and benefit from all that work that we've done really well just once.    Louise Harris:   And it's not, it's not just teams kind of in and around the UK government that are getting to benefit from that approach either right? Some of our code has also been forked by international governments to do their own thing too. What do you think are some of the sort of GDS led technology success stories out there?    Louise Ryan:  Oh, wow. Yeah. So there's lots of examples of this happening. So take, for example, Notify. That's been forked and used by the Canadian government and the Australian government to create their own notification platforms. And, you know, t-t-that doesn't just-just happen and then stop. We continue to collaborate with those teams working on this platforms so we can all learn from each other. And it's not just about the tech either - that's really important thing. So obviously Notify have developed a whole bunch of operational practices and services around the service itself. So we share, we share those as well and you know, help people figure out what works, what doesn't.   And it's not just Notify. So PaaS. PaaS works with, that's Platform as a Service, they work with their equivalents in-in Australia and, and the US government to share best practice. And then you've got the wonderful Design System that's been forked by a lot of countries. And not just other countries, but other authorities within-within the UK. So, for example, my own council, Wiltshire Council, they forked the Design System and used it to build their own website. But in terms of other countries. I think it's used in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the Netherlands. So, yeah, massive, massive success stories of-of re-use of our, of our hard work.   Louise Harris:  Wow, so lots to be proud of. And Himal, I guess same question to you - what is it that drew you to GDS?   Himal Mandalia: I think GDS is sort of interestingly positioned right at the centre and, and being sort of highly visible, like it can be an exemplar of what good, sort of long live teams, services looks like. So all of the things that are articulated in the Service Standard, in the Technology Code of Practice, you know, we-we work to those ourselves since we-since we developed them. But I think what we've quite clearly put out very recently in the GDS strategy for the next 3 years, the core 5 missions, particularly the ones around GDS being the place, essentially the shop that builds and runs the common components and platforms that the rest of government build services on top of. I think that is now clearer, clearer than it's ever been. And you know there's something that, for me anyway, when I was thinking about a bit of a career change last year, drew me and I thought: this is a really interesting time to come in and join. There's a-there's a real sort of transformation of energy in the air again.    Louise Harris:  So it's great for our teams to know that their work is having an impact not just here in the UK and for our users, but also around the world as well. And Himal, like you say to be part of that, what did you call it, transformation buzz? I think that kind of flies in the face of the idea that jobs in the civil service are sort of slow or old school right?   Do-do you think there are other misconceptions about what a technology job in government might be like, versus what it's actually like at GDS day to day?   Himal Mandalia:  I think what's interesting here is, you know we're about a decade into a transformation journey that's bringing in the sort of technology practices around Continuous Delivery, being Agile, having autonomous self organising teams and a lot of the-the technology driven processes that surround that in the ways of working. And I think it's easy for us to lose sight of the uneven distribution and maturity of this across government. So I think it's, I think it's interesting because government can't be seen as a, as a monolithic thing. I think if you're outside and you're thinking of you know, if you're, if you're a Developer or a Reliability Engineer or a Technical Architect and you think, you know you want to work in government, you want to work in the public sector - and that could be local authorities as well of course - it is, it is a very unevenly distributed landscape of maturity. I mean, I would say we're pretty much at the, at the higher end of the maturity curve at GDS here, of course, because what we've been doing for the last decade. And I think what's exciting for me as someone that's worn many hats and played different roles in this sort of journey is: it's, it-it can be, it can be rewarding to work somewhere where a lot of the basic capabilities, the fundamental enablers are already in place and you can deliver value and work with teams. If you consider GDS, then you would find something that's much more a-akin to a sort of modern sort of conventional tech company.   Louise Harris:  I think that digital maturity curve point is such a good one. Because yeah, with almost 10 years under our belt GDS has definitely been through a lot that foundational and capability building stuff that some other organisations might still be grappling with, and I think that gives us a kind of view on what their pain points are so we can shape products and platforms that are gonna meet their needs at different parts of the curve.   And I think that actually leads us quite nicely to the next thing that I wanted to chat to you both about.    So our regular listeners will know that earlier in the year, we launched our new strategy and centred it around 5 key missions. If you missed it, check out our May episode of the Podcast where you can hear our Chief Exec, Tom Read, talk more about that.    But in essence I suppose, over the next few years, our focus boils down to this: helping to create services that just work for the user. So no matter how complex the underlying systems are or how much these people know about government, we're going to make services that just work.    So mission 4 in our strategy that's looking at how we can make sort of effortless for departments and agencies to digitise their services by looking at centrally-developed common components.    Louise, maybe you can tell us a bit about what's happening in that area?   Louise Ryan:  I mean to sum it up, you know, we've got a bunch of really cool services that are already providing value. So as a piece of work, that's ongoing to just make sure they keep delivering value and can scale with the increasing usage that they experience.   We're also you know, obviously building on top of that and looking what else we can do to meet user needs. One exciting part of that is the work we're doing in the collecting information from users team. So that team is well, I think it sums ups, sums up its work. It's...you know, we want every single form that's published on GOV.UK to be accessible. That's huge. A lot of the forms on GOV.UK at the moment are published in PDF or, or other document formats. They present challenges, especially to-to users who, who need to use assistive technologies such as screen readers or magnifiers. And actually completing PDF online is-is no easy task either. It's pretty difficult. Whereas completing an online form is a much better user experience and hopefully much more accessible. So it's, that is a, that is a massive problem space, and a really interesting one. And we're just entering an Alpha-Alpha phase with that team. So it's, yeah, so it's very exciting challenge we presented with ourselves in, in GaaP.   Louise Harris:  And I don't think we can really kind of understate the scale of that challenge, because I think everybody around GDS we treat PDF's a little bit like our, a 4 letter word. But the team blogged recently and I think equated that if, without doing this work, if we were just relying on the existing kind of form building systems that were out there, it would take government about 70 years just to convert the PDF's that already live on GOV.UK, which are obviously growing, if not every day, then certainly most weeks. So super important work. Was there anything that came out of the discovery that-that surprised you folks?   Louise Ryan:  I think-I think you've, you've hit the nail on the head. It's the scale of the challenge. And it certainly surprised me. But when you, when you think about it, it's, it's not that surprising, actually, because there's teams right around government that don't have the digital capability to do anything else. This is, you know PDF's and other, other document formats are the tool they have, so that's the tool they, they have to use. So, again, GaaP is uniquely placed in the centre of government to do something about that. And that's, that's hopefully what we'll be able to do in the coming years.   Louise Harris:  So it sounds like through Government as a Platform right now, we are already kind of solving common problems at scale. But, but what about - and sorry to make you solutionise on the fly here Louise, because I know that everything we do is evidence based and user led - where do you see the next, beyond the collecting information from users work, do you see any themes emerging about where that next common problem is that GDS might want to solve?   Louise Ryan:  Yeah, so we are doing some research on this, so, but I don't want to pre-empt that, but I'm, I can, you know, there's, there's stuff we already know that, that service teams have to just keep doing over and over again. There's you know, there's thin--complex problems that don't seem complex until you really dig into them. So things like a postcode lookup. Service teams have to keep doing that, is-is there a way we can, we can provide a solution for that in the centre?   Louise Harris:  And that's all such important stuff right if we, if we want to deliver the transformation at the scale that we, we all want to see.   One of our other central focuses is going to be this idea of joining up services so they solve whole user problems even if that means spanning multiple departments. Himal, I guess - as the platform for government services - GOV.UK is going to be pretty fundamental to how we get that done right?   Himal Mandalia:  Yes, so it's interesting because people can get a little bit, a little bit confused about what we mean when we say GOV.UK. So if we think about it as sort of layers of the onion: the sort of widest layer you have, what is known as the GOV.UK proposition. So that, as a user, you know, you go somewhere, you see a website, you see something that's branded with the crown and the stylings around that: that's a GOV.UK site. But it could very easily be a transactional service you interact with for--to do ev-everything from paying your taxes to a prison visit to renew your driving licence. And those are all on the GOV.UK proposition. So they feel like a single website as you move across them. And we have mechanisms like the Service Standard. If you work to that, that means that you're going to end up with a pretty joined up journey.   But for me, the-the-the layer of GOV.UK that I work on and the technology I'm responsible for, that's the GOV.UK content. That's-that's the main page that you come to when you go to www.GOV.UK. That is a large platform with hundreds of thousands of pages of content that we-we hold and a set of tools that we run for thousands of users across government to create, to offer that content, to edit it, to manage it, including our internal content teams here. And we also run technology, which, of course, delivers all those pages so they-re, they're available globally.   Louise Harris:  And right now, a lot of that content is quite static right? Because we need to publish it and serve it quickly and then hold it in the cache and serve it up again over and over.   Himal Mandalia:  Yeah, exactly. GOV.UK delivers a lot of content right now, but it's usually...it's relatively static, it's relatively flat content, it's pages. And one of the things that we're exploring now is if you have an account, if we, based on consent, if we know some things about you - your approximate location or other attributes we have - we may be able to tailor that content. We may be able to personalise it, to put content in front of you that's relevant to what you're doing. Maybe even be proactive, send you personalised notifications with of course, a full consent model and opt in and easy opt out around that.    But in order to do that, in order to personalise the content or even have content chunked up so it can be contextual, so a different snippet is mixed in based on a tag or some piece of data that we're using to construct that, that, all of that will require a fundamental re-architecting of GOV.UK's applications. So the front end applications need to change dramatically in order to stitch together that content in real time. The way that content is stored, the way it's structured, the schemas that are used to determine how that content is broken down into small snippets, how it's tagged, the taxonomy - all of that needs a rethink and redesign. And the publishing tools themselves, the tools that are used by the service essentially that is used by the content creators, that experience they have in not only creating content, but the taxonomy they're applying to it, how they're tagging it - all of that needs a rethink and a redes-redesign as well.   So that sounds huge and it is. But it's not a sort of big bang, all at once programme of work. This is an incremental and iterative stream of work, like, like how we do everything, which is going to, which is going to be done bit by bit. The interesting challenges that we are talking about rebuilding the ship while there are people in it bit by bit. And this is very much that Ship of Theseus metaphor right? We're replacing the planks, and when we're done, it's going to be a very different looking ship. It's going to be a ship that does very different things. But we're not even completely clear exactly what it looks like, but if we really extend the metaphor, we do have a good idea of where we're going.   Louise Harris:  And that personalisation agenda that you talked about there Himal, it sounds to me like it's going to ma-make [laughs] the site work a lot harder. I mean, we're already processing thousands and thousands of kind of transactional services, but this sounds like a real shift. You talked about the GOV.UK Account functionality as well, which obviously we piloted last year and had, I think, about 50,000 people sign up for that as part of the Brexit Checker, Brexit Transition Checker. We've obviously been iterating that software ever since. Can you tell us a little bit about where we're at now with Accounts?   Himal Mandalia:  So what we've done to test the hypothesis with the Brexit Transition Checker and the-the prototype account functionality, which which has been amazing, which has been an amazing learning experience because we have had, as you, as you mentioned there, 50,000 people sign up, but because we're working off of an architecture and an infrastructure set up that doesn't support this yet, we have done those as, as a separate applications, which we've used, we've hosted in, in Platform as a Service, in PaaS actually, one of the products Louise mentioned and is responsible for which is, which is great, just to be able to use our own tools for things like this.    But in order to have that as part of GOV.UK's core architecture, to support more of that personalisation, that's what we do need to have that re-think, that re-design and that re-architecting of all of our frontend apps and our publishing tools and the content platform.   So I'm currently working on the future platform services and architecture strategy for GOV.UK. So all of the things I've just mentioned there are going to be sort of written up in plain language around what we're thinking of. And I-I view GOV.UK breaking out into a few really simple long term value propositions or services and platforms, and they are: presentation, or the frontend, what you experience as www.GOV.UK when you go there; the publishing service or tools that our thousands of users across government use; a content platform, that engine, that heart of content that does all the heavy lifting; and underneath all of that, the infrastructure platform that runs the applications, the databases, all of those things. And really looking to put an emphasis on the content platform, that engine of content and trying to move to a world where we can almost think of GOV.UK as a, as a sort of headless machine, that it does have a frontend, but really the most prominent part is the functionality that does all the lifting. Because in future there may be an app, there may be other ways, we may be syndicating content - these are all things we want to test. But having the flexibility and the ability to do that is, is vital because the way people, the way people interact with services online is quite different now to how it was a decade ago, and so we need to move on and have a much more Agile, much more flexible architecture that lets us meet users where they are rather than having a, just a website. You know we don't, we don't live in that era anymore.   Louise Harris:  So sounds then like we want to shift to a, a bit more of a channel agnostic approach then. Louise, you're a Technical Architect, what's your take on Himal's just said?    Louise Ryan:  Yeah, it's-it's a bit daunting actually [laughs]. Himal won't mind me saying that. You've got, it's a, it's a big job to re-architect such a big and important platform as GOV.UK. It's, it's really exciting. And it, you know, it's, yeah, you won't be on your own Himal. You know, the rest of-of GDS is-is very interested in this work as well, and there's crossovers right? Government as a Platform is very interested in, in what's happening with GOV.UK Accounts, because we might be able to use those features in our services. So for example, [GOV.UK] Pay: when someone's paying for something, if they're signed into their account, maybe they can save that, that payment method if they want to. Yeah, just solutionising on the fly, because obviously we'd need to research that to see if it was a, a thing people would be interested in. But, but obviously we you know, we're keeping a very close eye on what, what Himal's up to and, and wanna be part of it where we can.   Himal Mandalia:  I-I 100% agree with that, Louise. I think the thing here is, I think the, I think what we're doing with our, with our Digital Identity programme, with the GOV.UK Accounts, it really is, it really is that golden thread. It is the thing that ties all of this together. It does, it does offer the cohesion between all of our products and services. So we blur the boundaries between them. And I think notifications, payments, the publishing, the content delivery, all of that, and then, and then you bring into that all of the services across government as well, they're all tied together through your account. So what you end up with ultimately is a completely seamless experience, a citizen shouldn't need to, shouldn't, you shouldn't, it shouldn't even occur to them that a separate group of people delivered this piece as opposed to another bit.   Louise Harris:  As you say some kind of huge, huge programmes of work coming up, sounds like we're probably going to need a few-few additional crew. If-if people are interested in getting involved in this, where-where can they go to find out more?   Himal Mandalia:  So if you search for GDS careers, you'll find our careers site. We have a, we have a campaign going to hire Developers right now, but more will be launching soon. I'm particularly keen on trying to see about bringing juniors in. We need, we need more, we need more juniors into to-to-to not only be working with our teams, but also to be engaging in things that we've done previously at GDS like firebreaks, where you get that little bit of free time to experiment and come up with things. And of course, there will be a range of more senior roles as well. They'll be, they'll be more roles going out across-across the board at all levels.   Louise Harris: So there's lots of really great new job opportunities coming up across GDS. For people who might be interested in that, what would you say the culture is like in our teams?   Himal Mandalia:  I think having, having just come through a crisis, or crises, where we were highly visible and doing a lot of work to surface essential guidance around Coronavirus, we've had to organise ourselves around mission focussed teams, which has meant a-a lot of the work that we planned and even written about, I-I think I've, since starting you know, I've dug into some of the blog posts that we put out in 2016 and 17, amazing planning around publishing tools and platform that we were not able to pick up or continue because, because of emergency work, urgent priorities around Coronavirus and some of the work around Brexit as well, those are all things we can return to now.    H aving gotten to know my technologists community over the last 5 months, I think there's a real appetite to return to some of those longer term value streams - so working on services, being in long live teams, and what I'd mentioned earlier around things like a publishing service and content platform. You know, really giving groups of people, not just Developers, but Designers and everyone involved in a multidisciplinary team, that agency and that long term ownership over a problem and o-o-over, over the improvement of something. So I think some of that excitement is coming back now. And so, yeah, it's, it's a great time to join. It's a very active community.   Louise Ryan:  I-I don't think I've shouted from the rooftops enough about how important long-lived autonomous teams are. They really are the, the reason that Government as a Platform has been suc--as successful as it has. There, there's people that are really committed to these services, really understand the problem spaces inside and out and just, yeah, deliver amazing results and outcomes as, as a result. And yeah, this is, this is not just from a technical perspective that you know, we-we-we couldn't build the tech we build without the help of our, our user-centred design colleagues and product and delivery.   We are...the selling points from me I mentioned earlier is-is how we work in teams, as a unit, how we figure out with things that we-we should be working on, making sure they are the things of most value and really understanding the problem space and then developing the tech to solve those problems. And that, that, that way we work is to me as a technologist, is, is very compelling and, and reason alone to join but...Also we use some really modern tech - so our programming languages in GaaP are, are Python, Java, Node and then we've got some, some other programming language such as Go in the mix, but we build stuff on, on really modern technologies. So a lot of stuff on Amazon Web Services. As I said, we use modern practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, we do a lot of automated testing so we can deploy with confidence multiple times a day to make sure, yeah, we're getting our stuff out there quickly and getting people to actually use it as fast as possible.   And hopefully that's a, that's a compelling story about why GDS is a really good place to work. I didn't actually mention the culture in, in all of that. And I think that's what you actually asked me. But the-the agile culture here is-is to be open, to be transparent, to share what you're working on with others, and that can be through show and tells, through pairing, through having your code open in, out there on GitHub. I really, I really like the culture at GDS. It's a kind of, you know, when I was in the office, come up to my desk and ask me anything kind of thing. No question too silly. Yeah. I think it's a, it's a lovely place to work.   Himal Mandalia:  Yeah, I think the only, I think the only thing I'd add and Louise said it all there really was: you know, if you a technologist that's passionate about open source development and the technologies that were mentioned there and you, if particularly if you're old enough, you have friends like me who are old enough to remember when open source was very much the underdog, and you know, we were, we were all sort of part of a rebel alliance trying to-to do a good thing. It's amazing that this is now converged with trying to do good for the public as well. So. I could, I couldn't think of a better argument to sell it than, than that: you get to use cool tech, do open source stuff to do good for tech and do good for the public. I mean, what more do you want, really? And we pay pretty well as well.   Louise Harris:  That's pretty cool, and if people want to find out about our code, which obviously we publish openly where we can, where can they find that?   Louise Ryan:  All our code is published on GitHub. So you need to go to GitHub. And it's Alpha GOV.UK is our organisation. It's all in there. I can't remember how many repos that there are, but there's a lot [laughs].   Louise Harris:  Okay well if anybody's got a quiet Saturday afternoon, and they fancy digging into literally thousands of repos, head over to our GitHub to do that.    Yeah so there you have it, an inside look into how technologists at GDS are doing the hard work to make it simple for users. Some seriously impressive and exciting stuff, and if you want to stay up to date with what's going on, please do follow us on the GDS blogs and check out our GitHub. A reminder that if you're a Developer, Site Reliability Engineer or a Technical Architect who fancies a new challenge as part of a great team doing work that impacts literally millions of people, you need to search GDS careers because we're hiring now.    Louise, Himal, thank you so much for taking the time to come on and chat to me today. I don't know about anyone else, but you have been left with the impression of our technologists acting like a bevy of swans, calmly and gracefully gliding across the surface, totally belying all of the hard work and energy that's happening just underneath to make sure we're headed in the right direction. And thank you to you, our listeners. Remember, you can find all episodes of the Government Digital Service Podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all major podcast platforms. And our transcripts are available on PodBean.    Goodbye.   Louise Ryan:  Thank you, bye.   Himal Mandalia:  Thanks everyone.

Part of being an effective team member is knowing what the other teammates are responsible for doing. It's important because we need to know who to ask or interface with at certain points in our design process. This episode introduces (or reintroduces) some of our quality friends in design: Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Supplier Quality, Calibration Technician, Quality Technician, and Quality Inspector. The podcast blog discusses more about cross-functional teams.Support the show

May is mental health awareness month, so we wanted to bring on the biggest mental health advocate we know, Rob Kalwarowsky.In this bonus episode of the podcast, Charli interviews Rob Kalwarowsky P.Eng, CMRP, CRE, CLS – Leader, Reliability Engineer & Podcast Host - Edmonton, Canada.Rob Kalwarowsky has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil pipelines, and consulting in heavy industry.  Rob is the co-host of The Leadership Launchpad Project & Dismantling the High Performance Narrative podcasts and the founder of Maintenance Disrupted (formerly Rob's Reliability Project).  Rob is on a mission to spread the message of people-centric leadership & the importance of mental health throughout the industrial world. Rob envisions a world where happiness & engagement are commonplace in the workplace. Prior to starting his career, Rob graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Management, was a 3-time Academic All-American in NCAA Water Polo and played on the U18 Canadian National Water Polo team. Rob's Links:LinkedIn WebsiteAbout Leadership LaunchPadRegister for Leadership LaunchPadLeadership Panel with the Maintenance CommunityWatch this episode on YouTube. Resources and Links:Get the digital editionSign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletterNominate an Industry Person of the WeekEmpowering Brands Meetup - Tues. May 18th (every third Tuesday)Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack groupEmpowering Women in Industry PodcastIndustry Person of the WeekSponsor Empowering WomenLunch & Learn with VinceSustainable Infrastructure Summithttps://empowering-brands.comhttps://empoweringpumps.comhttps://empoweringwomeninindustry.comTwitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagrampodcast@empoweringpumps.comhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On the 13th episode of Industrial Transformation: Stories of Failure and Success from the front lines of American Manufacturing, CEO of KCF Technologies’ Jeremy Frank discusses the importance of mindset, people, and culture to effectively transform operations with Brian Hronchek, Marine Corps veteran, master Reliability Engineer, and Industry 4.0 visionary. Listen to Brian’s story of perseverance and see what he feels is the one thing that will allow any of us to solve the industrial world’s toughest challenges.

Lilja Scheel Birgisdóttir, Reliability Engineer at Icelandair, talks with Sarah about the immense complexities and interdependencies of airline operations and the role predictive maintenance will play in the airline’s future.

Welcome to The New Stack Makers: Scaling New Heights, a series of interviews, conducted by Scalyr CEO Christine Heckart, that cover the challenges engineering managers have faced when scaling architectures to support the demands of the business. Uber. Recall the company in 2017, the management, the scale, and the post by Susan Fowler, who detailed experiences that speak to the hopes and terrible realities at the company. That's the scenario that faced Donald Sumbry, who now heads reliability engineering at Airbnb in this interview with Heckart. He was not aware of the issues internally at Uber due, he says, to the work and all the technical problems that needed resolving. "In early 2017, we had the Susan Fowler blog post, and one of the things I remember the most was that some of what was what had happened was actually a surprise to me," Sumbry said, "And I realized that I was so knee-deep in the work that I was doing, that there were so many problems to solve. And we attracted the type of people that just jumped into a problem. Joining Airbnb, Sumbry brought what he learned at Uber about looking at the big picture. He also learned to avoid the savior complex. Every company is different, no matter how much it may seem that the engineer has seen it all and can solve all the problems.

Ferruccio Bottoni is Co-Founder and CEO of USound GmbH and Fauna Audio GmbH, a strong-growing Austrian high-tech company revolutionizing the personal audio field with their MEMS speakers-based products. Bottoni started at STMicroelectronics in 1995 working on developing flash memory. Subsequently, he joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 1999 where he contributed to the ramp-up of MEMS in the automotive market. He finally joined Sensordynamics in 2009 as VP of operations until 2013. During his career, Ferruccio has covered several positions including Quality and Reliability Engineer, Process Manufacturing Manager, Technical Purchasing Manager, and VP Operations. In 2014, he founded USound together with Andrea Rusconi and Jörg Schönbacher and, with a team of exceptional engineers, developed the first MEMS speaker in the market. In 2019, USound launched its first product to the market, audio glasses, under the brand Fauna Audio GmbH.USound GmbH is a fabless company offering high-performance silicon speakers and high-quality sound solutions based on MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BDL59C3CUWGXS&source=url)

Matthew shares his experiences building a few of the largest CDNs on the planet. We talk about serving hundreds or thousands of streams, 4k video, CDN nodes deeply embedded in the service provider network, downsides of multicast, DRM and protocols.

This week, Charli and Bethany give tips on creating video for social media.Then Charli interviews Steve Shaheen, a Project Engineer at BP based in Chicago.Steve is an operations and engineering professional passionate about making a difference in people's lives. He is proud to serve communities by delivering the energy they depend on while working hard for our environment and upholding the integrity of the pipelines his company operates. Outside of his career he is a proud husband and father and loves to spend his free-time volunteering by teaching STEM lessons to children in the Chicago area.https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveshaheen/https://empoweringpumps.com/industry-person-of-the-week-steve-shaheen/ -Resources and Links:Get the digital editionSign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.Person of the Week - Vicki SpinaEmpowering Pump Meet Up: Tuesday, November 10, 2 PM CST4 Video Marketing Tips for Small BusinessAFT platinum pipe awards Deadline Extended to November 15Industrial Wastewater Treatment Service Market to Reach $28.0 billion by 2024Connect with us:Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagramhttps://empoweringpumps.com/email: podcast@empoweringpumps.comSound byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Apprentice schemes are in the spotlight, as governments look to encourage young people eager to jump on the path to a rewarding career towards them. With these schemes providing superb on the job, real world training experience, and a rich source of talent for companies we take a look at how the food and nutrition sector has embraced this opportunity with their own apprentice schemes. According to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, food and drink manufacturing needs 140,000 recruits by 2024. As older workers retire and younger recruits are attracted to other more alluring sectors, the industry needs to ensure that it can attract new talent and bridge future skills shortages. Apprenticeships offer huge opportunities for both employers and employees and are seen as vital to the industry’s future. The PM and the Chancellor have both announced that they see apprenticeships as key to restarting the economy post COVID.  With this in mind, the latest of a series of Table Talk Podcasts focused on connecting industry, academia and the brightest new recruits investigates apprenticeships and the numerous benefits they offer to the industry as a whole. Joining our panel to provide their unique insight are Professor Sharon Green, Deputy Head and Lead for Apprenticeships and Business Partnerships at the University of Lincoln’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing, Dave Everett, Apprenticeship Training Advisor / Internal Quality Assurance, Young & Co.’s Brewery P.L.C. and Jordan Brosnan, Apprenticeship Ambassador & Reliability Engineer, Coco-Cola European Partners.

This week, Charli and Bethany discuss why useful content should be at the core of your marketing strategy.Then Charli interviews Rob Kalwarowsky, Leader, Reliability Engineer & Host of Rob's Reliability Project.Rob Kalwarowsky started Rob's Reliability Project in 2018 and currently produces content to spread the importance of reliability, courageous leadership & mental health in the industrial community. Rob has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil and gas pipelines, and consulting industries. He specializes in condition monitoring, failure prediction, spare parts optimization, asset management and people-centric leadership. Prior to that, Rob graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Management.Rob's Information:robsreliability.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityprojectLeadership Course: https://mentalgym.mykajabi.com/theleadershiplaunchpadprojectinvitationSubscribe to Rob's Reliability Project podcast on your favorite podcast platform, Follow Rob's Reliability Project on LinkedIn and sign up for my newsletter at http://robsreliability.com/email-listResources and Links Mentioned in the Podcast:Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter: https://empoweringpumps.com/enewsletter-archive/ Nominate an Industry Person of the Week: https://empoweringpumps.com/nominate-a-pump-person-of-the-week/Empowering Women 2020 On-Demand Registration: https://www.empoweringwomeninindustry.com/events-1/empowering-women-2020-ondemandIndustry Person of the Week: https://empoweringpumps.com/industry-person-of-the-week-cliff-williams/https://empoweringpumps.com/event/frost-sullivan-and-top-marketing-leaders-discusss-how-to-create-a-game-plan-for-2021/https://empoweringpumps.com/iwaki-what-is-the-life-cycle-cost-on-a-critical-pump/Connect with us:https://twitter.com/empoweringpumpshttps://www.facebook.com/empoweringpumps/https://www.linkedin.com/company/empowering-pumps-llchttps://www.instagram.com/empoweringpumps/https://empoweringpumps.com/email: podcast@empoweringpumps.comConnect with us by tagging us on social media @empoweringpumps and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or by emailing us at podcast@empoweringpumps.comAnd until then, be empowering!Sound byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy I’m excited to have Bill Leahy with us for a deep dive into whether organizations should build an RE internally, or they should hire externally to fill those roles. Bill has worked at Eruditio for the past three years and is currently a senior instructor […] The post 221-Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

With COVID-19 causing considerable uncertainty, many reliability and maintenance professionals are concerned about how to meet production goals. For football fans, there's also some anxiety—what's in store for America's favorite fall pastime? Maybe there's something we can learn from considering production and football goals at the same time. In this webinar, Life Cycle Institute educator and Reliability Engineering expert Mike Smith shares how football and asset management are very similar, and how you can apply winning football tactics to your asset management strategies. He'll explain the role of the Reliability Engineer as the plant's attacking, ball-hawking defensive specialist, and how REs can best understand the risks and failure modes of their plant's assets. Register for an upcoming webinar here: https://www.accelix.com/best-practice-webinars/ (https://www.accelix.com/best-practice-webinars/) ► To learn more about Accelix visit https://bit.ly/2ncxyAx (https://bit.ly/2ncxyAx) ► Follow Accelix on Facebook https://bit.ly/2nWMrae (https://bit.ly/2nWMrae) ► Follow Accelix on Instagram https://bit.ly/2mjdOL8 (https://bit.ly/2mjdOL8)

Technical Skills for an Expert Reliability Engineer Abstract Carl and Fred discussing what it takes to be an expert reliability engineer, from a technical point of view. Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the technical levels of expertise associated with reliability engineering, including expertise in one or two technical subjects, and knowing […] The post SOR 565 Technical Skills for an Expert Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

People Skills for an Expert Reliability Engineer Abstract Carl and Fred discussing the most important people skills that are needed to succeed as an expert in a reliability engineering career. Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the broad subject of people skills, and how to influence engineering organizations in the best possible way. […] The post SOR 564 People Skills for an Expert Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

In this week's episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Steven Dobie, Reliability Engineer at Teck Resources Limited, back on the show! Today's show looks a bit different than our usual episodes, and that's because this episode is the first in our new short series, "Careers Considered", that dives deeper into the different jobs in the maintenance and reliability industry. To kick things off, Steven gives us a glimpse into Reliability Engineering! Listen today! Connect with us! https://www.onupkeep.com https://bit.ly/UpKeepFacebook https://bit.ly/UpKeepLinkedIn Music from https://filmmusic.io "Too Cool" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

In this week's episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Peter Horsburgh on the show! Peter is the author of “5 Habits of an Extraordinary Reliability Engineer", as well as the CEO and Founder of Reliability Extranet! Peter shares with us more about his book through the lens of his own experience as a reliability engineer. Listen today! Connect with us! https://www.onupkeep.com https://bit.ly/UpKeepFacebook https://bit.ly/UpKeepLinkedIn Music from https://filmmusic.io "Too Cool" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

We sit down with one of our industry heroes and have a meaningful discussion on how he tackles the responsibilities of a reliability engineer at Cascasdes. Robb shares insight to tools and processes that he utilizes in his everyday role that make an impact. We have some fun and talk a little bit of life away from manufacturing and how finding a way to unwind is important for everyone. We think you'll enjoy this conversation as it covers many different areas that resonate with manufacturing in America. Host: Chris Grainger. Executive Producer: Adam Sheets. Audio Engineer: Luke Yntema. Additional Resources: Cascades.com

In this week's Industrial Talk Podcast we're talking to Breanna Fullman, Reliability Engineer and Root Cause Analysis Expert at ARMs Reliability, about creating a culture of problem solving through RCA and achieving a competitive advantage. Breanna, through the use of the Apollo RCA methodology, discusses the importance of a formal and documented RCA process to correct and eliminate hazards, making the workplace safer. Learn more about Breanna and the wonderful team at ARMs Reliability on all things Asset Management and RCA. Find out more by the links below: Company Website: https://www.armsreliability.com/ (https://www.armsreliability.com/) Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breannaweil/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/breannaweil/) Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/armsreliability/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/armsreliability/) Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ARMSReliability/ (https://www.facebook.com/ARMSReliability/) Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/armsreliability (https://twitter.com/armsreliability) PODCAST VIDEO:  THE STRATEGIC REASON "WHY YOU NEED TO PODCAST":https://industrialtalk.com/why-you-need-to-podcast/ () OTHER GREAT INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES:Safeopedia: https://www.safeopedia.com/ (https://www.safeopedia.com/) Industrial Marketing Solutions:  https://industrialtalk.com/industrial-marketing/ (https://industrialtalk.com/industrial-marketing/) Industrial Academy: https://industrialtalk.com/industrial-academy/ (https://industrialtalk.com/industrial-academy/) Industrial Dojo: https://industrialtalk.com/industrial_dojo/ (https://industrialtalk.com/industrial_dojo/) Safety With Purpose Podcast: https://safetywithpurpose.com/ (https://safetywithpurpose.com/) YOUR INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TOOLBOX:LifterLMS: Get One Month Free for $1 – https://lifterlms.com/ (https://lifterlms.com/) Active Campaign: https://www.activecampaign.com/?_r=H855VEPU (Active Campaign Link) BombBomb: http://www.bombbomb.com/?bbref=INDUSTRIALTALKPODCAST (BombBomb Link) Social Jukebox: https://www.socialjukebox.com/ (https://www.socialjukebox.com/) Enter Promo Code: IndustrialTalk and Receive $600.00 Off the Reliability Summit 2020:https://insight.armsreliability.com/Summit2020-IndustrialTalk () Industrial Academy (One Month Free Access And One Free Licence For Future Industrial Leader):https://industrialtalk.com/wp-admin/inforum-industrial-academy-discount/ () Business Beatitude the Book Do you desire a more joy-filled, deeply-enduring sense of accomplishment and success? Live your business the way you want to live with the BUSINESS BEATITUDES...The Bridge connecting sacrifice to success. YOU NEED THE BUSINESS BEATITUDES! TAP INTO YOUR INDUSTRIAL SOUL, RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW! BE BOLD. BE BRAVE. DARE GREATLY AND CHANGE THE WORLD. GET THE BUSINESS BEATITUDES! https://industrialtalk.com/business-beatitude-reserve/ ( Reserve My Copy and My 25% Discount )

Two powerful tools, Reliability-centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), combine to decrease defections and improve the reliability of your asset. Doug Plucknette and Mark Galley join us to discuss how maintenance and reliability teams can identify losses, develop procedures to mitigate, and improve equipment reliability by combining the power of these two tools. Doug Plucknette, Founder and President, Reliability Solutions Inc. Doug Plucknette is the founder and president of Reliability Solutions Inc. and has been in asset management and maintenance and reliability for 38 years. He founded Reliability Solutions in 1999 and is also the founder of RCM Blitz™ and author of the book Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz&trade. He has provided reliability training and consulting services to companies around the world, including Fortune 500 companies Cargill, Whirlpool, Honda, Kraft-Heinz, Schlumberger, Corning, Invista, and Newmont Mining. Doug has published more than 50 articles, written two books, and has been a featured speaker and keynote speaker at numerous conferences. Mark Galley, Founder, ThinkReliability Mark Galley founded ThinkReliability, a training and consulting company specializing in root cause analysis and work process reliability. As a Cause Mapping® Root Cause Analysis Investigator and Instructor, Mark has been facilitating incident investigations and teaching workshops on root cause analysis for more than 20 years. His work spans several industries including manufacturing, transportation, aerospace, IT, healthcare, and more. Before starting ThinkReliability, he gained practical experience in root cause analysis and work process reliability at Dow Chemical Co., where he worked for nearly nine years. He obtained his certification as a Reliability Engineer in 1993 through the American Society for Quality and is a regular presenter at national conferences. Originally published on Accelix.com, 2/19/20.

What is the CMRT with Terry Torrence As a Reliability Engineer, you are always keen to learn something new and practice it to add to your professional experience. There are a lot of ways to get the kind of knowledge that you need to be good at your job. Online certifications are a trendy way […] The post 174-What is the CMRT with Terry Torrence appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

A podcast for those with new ideas in maintenance. Each week, Ryan Chan meets with a guest who has had an idea for how to shake things up in the maintenance and reliability industry. Sometimes the idea failed, sometimes it made their businesses more successful, and other times their idea revolutionized entire industries.

Dan is transitioning into his new role as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Analytics Officer for ReefPoint Group, LLC. Before this, Dan worked as a Reliability Engineer and Risk Analyst for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC). In addition to developing probabilistic risk models to identify and prioritize potential risk management strategies, Dan worked to enhance the USNRC's use of quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform regulatory and policy decisions. As a part-time Senior Decision Scientist for Innovative Decisions, Inc. (IDI), Dan also applied machine learning techniques to insider threat detection problems under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Scientific advances to Continuous Insider Threat Evaluation (SCITE) Program. Dan served for more than ten years on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces—first as an enlisted Marine, and then as a Navy Diver and Submarine Warfare Officer. Dan is a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) and is Certified in Public Health (CPH). Dan earned a B.S. degree with distinction in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.S. degree in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. degree in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins University.

First Day as a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg It is always a difficult first day for a reliability engineer in a new place. There are a lot of things to get yourself involved in and there are some tips that can really help you get through that successfully. The job of a reliability engineer […] The post 151- First Day as a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg In every industry, people skills contribute a lot to the success of an employee. The thing is that engineers and especially reliability engineers are not taught soft skills like change management and communication strategies across different facilities in the maintenance and reliability oriented organizations. The reason […] The post 143 – The Soft Skills Reliability Engineers Need with Fred Schenkelberg appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Jenya co-founded PVEL in 2010 and now serves as CEO. He developed the first extended reliability and performance test protocols for the downstream PV industry as well as innovative methods of evaluating PV performance for power plant level risk assessment and mitigation. Prior to founding PVEL, Jenya was the Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer at SunPower where he designed accelerated test methods for high-efficiency solar cells and modules. Jenya began his career at NASA Ames Research Center’s hyper-gravity facilities. He also served as VP of Technology for Cypress Creek Renewables, a utility-scale project developer. Jenya received an MS and BS at Boston University and UC Santa Cruz, respectively, and holds two photovoltaic-related patents. He has authored many articles and regularly speaks at conferences. Jenya is an Advisory Board Member to NREL’s International PV Module Quality Assurance Task Force and serves on the Board of Directors of PVComplete, a solar design software company. Effective January 1, 2019, the management of DNV GL and PV Evolution Labs (“PVEL”) have jointly decided that PVEL will become a separate legal entity under the ownership of PVEL’s experienced leadership team. In the new setting, both organizations will have more flexibility to maximize value to customers. DNV GL and PVEL will continue to work together to provide a full portfolio of valued solar services to industry clients. For the global energy markets, DNV GL’s 2300 energy experts deliver trusted advisory and testing services to the energy value chain including solar, wind, storage, transmission, distribution of electricity and energy management services. With dozens of solar test experts and partners around the world, PVEL is the leading independent solar reliability and performance testing lab dedicated to providing trusted bankability data to downstream solar equipment buyers, project investors and project operators. It was founded in 2010 by Jenya Meydbray, who is returning to lead PVEL as CEO. The company is known worldwide for its annual PV Module Reliability Scorecard and groundbreaking Product Qualification Programs.

5 Habits of an Extraordinary Reliability Engineer with Peter Horsburgh As a reliability engineer, you have to come in contact with failures that repeat over and over again. Sometimes you can't find the best solution to solve a problem because there are other people involved in the issue as well. It might be due to […] The post 132 – 5 Habits of an Extraordinary Reliability Engineer with Peter Horsburgh appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour In the maintenance and reliability industry, we have maintenance engineers, manufacturing engineers, and reliability engineers. There is a little bit difference between the types. A maintenance engineer is there to make sure the equipment is in running condition as soon as possible once a failure occurs. He […] The post 108 – Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg The main goal of every organization is to get the quality product in the market. That's why they spend millions of dollars to stay on the plan they had in place. They can't do that if their equipment keeps failing. The only way to make it […] The post 105 – The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Mike Smith joins the Asset Reliability @ Work podcast to talk about the role of today's Reliability Engineer. Together, we'll explore how that role has transformed over the years in terms of responsibilities and training. Mike will tell you what he thinks should be in the RE's toolbox and he'll provide advice for those looking to become proficient within this job field. Discussion highlights include: Discussing how the responsibilities have changed over the years Understanding the current challenges facing REs Identifying training opportunities that didn't exist before Identifying the 3-5 "tools" that every RE should have in their toolbox Additional Resources: What's the Role of the Reliability Engineer How a Reliability Engineer Improves Reliability Reliability Engineering Certification Mike Smith on LinkedIn

Dennis Craggs, Consultant Tim interviews Dennis Craggs a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning big data analytics. Dennis studied at the University of Detroit and Wayne State University achieving a Masters in Engineering Mechanics and Operations Research. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, and a Quality and Reliability Engineer. In various roles at NASA, […] The post DTK Dennis Craggs Consultant appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Let s explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer. Join me in a discussion on what to consider and how to estimate future costs while working early in the program. You need to know this even if your system in not complex or repairable. The post How to Build Your Influence as a Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Let s explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer. Join me in a discussion on what to consider and how to estimate future costs while working early in the program. You need to know this even if your system in not complex or repairable. The post Life Cycle Cost Analysis for a Reliability Engineer appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Obtaining certifications based on your reliability engineering knowledge does not make you a professional. It is how you apply your knowledge that does. Let s explore what it means to be a professional reliability engineer. The post Does a Certification Make You a Professional Reliability Engineer? appeared first on Accendo Reliability.