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The "New" Way to be Smart and the "Push-Back" Factor
Orley Ashenfelter is a Princeton economist and a wine lover. During the day he crunches numbers. He looks for variations in large data sets and reveals the secrets they hold. Kinda like what a...
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Drinking From the Firehose
Bob Metcalfe affects life on earth as we know it. He is the inventor of ethernet. In a very educational and enlightening podcast interview, Phil McKinney invites Dr. Metcalfe to muse and ponder about...
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Ask a reliability engineer where the next $100 Million should come from...
An open letter to shareholders, the CXO, and the board of directors.THE RELIABILITY PROFESSIONALS OF THE WORLD WANT YOU TO KNOW THE FOLLOWING FACTS:"Reliability is the probability that a device, system...
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Reliability is a bit newer and a bit more difficult...
I am really enjoying what Steve Beamer is blogging about these days. In his blog, How To Improve Reliability, he offers insights from one of the only corporate reliability executives on the planet....
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Stop boasting about your safety records when you're literally putting out fires
OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab leveled a very direct judgment against petroleum and petrochemical processing companies at the NPRA conference last week. He did not mince words."Your...
View ArticleSemantics About "Risk" and "Performance"
I dare you to google asset management. Then try risk management. If you work in finance you'll be swimming in a sea of hits. If you're a reliability professional you'll be disappointed. Searching...
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Failed Compliance - Who's Fault is it?
I read a discussion response to a post I put up on a LinkedIn risk management group. The response said something to the effect of, "disasters are going to happen, nothing we can do other than cope...
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Asset Safety: Assessing Operating Risks
As we have discussed in previous posts, effective work processes are the key to improving reliability and asset performance. With the APM Foundation work process, maintenance managers and reliability...
View ArticleAre you celebrating reliability success too soon?
"To know and not to do is really not to know." - Stephen R. Covey in "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"Over the past decade,...
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Meridium Conference 2011: There's Something for Everyone!
In the areas of production, maintenance, reliability, or asset performance management, all companies are at different levels. Even companies in the same industry dealing with the same issues deal with...
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Asset Performance Management: The Future of Asset Management and Risk Mitigation
In the 2002 movie "Minority Report," moviegoers were exposed to an interesting view of crime prevention in the future. The plot of the movie revolves around a futuristic police force called...
View ArticleHow well is the role of Safety Instrumented Systems understood?
Bring up the topic of Safety Instrumented Systems in any industrial forum and you will get a spectrum of responses that could range from "fear and mistrust", to "not my job, don't need to know" to...
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Integrated Functionality: Why Apple iPhone has taken over the world and why...
I remember several years ago when I was working a summer job in Minnesota. It was 2007 and the long awaited rumors of Apple's first iPhone had become reality and in effect, the world of mobile phones...
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How to reduce common SIF/SIS mistakes
A recently published study by Great Britain’s HSE broke the safety lifecycle into three major areas: Hazards Assessment/SIF Specification SIF Design and Verification Operation and Maintenance Not...
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