Articles
Getting Started
Welcome to the home of reliability improvement; RELIABILITY CONNECT! The community is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Two Minute Tips
Motor Storage
One thing that is typically overlooked is how spare motors are stored. Over time, moisture, dirt, dust, and even general vibration from other sources can have a negative impact on the electrical and mechanical condition on the stored motors.
- Mark Koch
- ALL-TEST Pro, LLC
Two Minute Tips
Why You Should Perform a PdM Assessment
If your plant has a long-standing PdM program, I recommend performing an assessment. I encourage people to do self-assessments, but you may at some point wish to bring in an outside professional to perform an overall program assessment. It’s kind of a score card…
- John Pucillo
- True Reliability
Nine Minutes of Knowledge
The ROI of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Numerous experts have asserted that emotional intelligence and psychological safety make all the difference in the workplace, but how do we convince senior management? Rob Kalwarowsky gives us the data on how a more inclusive, emotionally intelligent workplace impacts the plant’s ROI…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
The Leadership Connection
Episode 28: Drew Troyer
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Drew Troyer in Episode 28 of this series. Drew brings nearly 30 years experience and thought leadership in the fields of manufacturing reliability engineering and physical asset management. He believes that most organizations in the physical asset-intensive industries have a tremendous opportunity to improve the uptime, profitability, safety and environmental performance of their plants and physical assets with a dedicated focus on reliability-driven practices.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Two Minute Tips
Best Kept Secret in Bearing Uptime
Vari-Purpose Lubricant is cool-running, long-lasting, and water-resistant. It dramatically lengthens grease intervals, eliminates bearing failures, can extend bearing life by up to threefold, and does not harden with age.
- John Sander
- Lubrication Engineers
Interviews
Meet MOBIUS CONNECT Ambassador: John Pucillo
Results-driven senior reliability, operation and product management professional with 35+ years of successfully executing best-in-class delivery and product strategies to achieve business objectives. Experience in management, product development, deployment strategies, optimizing workflow to reduce inefficiencies and cost. Accomplished in pricing models, software development, website operations, product management, project management, and collaborating effectively with clients.
- John Pucillo
- True Reliability
The Leadership Connection
Episode 27: Thomas Boehm
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Thomas Boehm in Episode 27 of this series. Thomas is a circular knitting machine mechanic for Stanfield Ltd. He has a very thought provoking LinkedIn Account where he discusses his job as a knitting mechanic, being the son of a minister, teaching in Japan, and various other topics.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Five Minute Facts
Extending the Proactive Domain on the Potential Failure (P-F) Curve
Have you thought about your condition monitoring/predictive maintenance program and how is it helping your organization to extend the mean time between failures of your assets or is it helping you perform better planning scheduling of work and preventing catastrophic failures?
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.
