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Chaos and Caffeine Episode 51 250 Years Strong and Human Potential
In this 4th of July episode, we step away from the usual technical deep dive to reflect on the 250th anniversary of the United States through a personal lens. Howard shares perspectives shaped by growing up in Canada and the U.S., serving in the Navy, traveling internationally, working across industries, and watching how people, culture,…
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Chaos and Caffeine Episode 50 Human Reliability Intelligence Performance by Design
In this we discuss how to improve a mediocre coffee and then Jun and I discuss HRI Labs. The additional discussion relates to Human Reliability Intelligence, Human Performance, Industrial Engineering, and the relationships between all of them. This includes how cobotics impacts human fatigue and vice-versa. The present focus for HRI is coaching and personal…
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ReliaSquatch Cartoon with Jun Discussing Next Episode
As generated by ReliaSquatch and Jun AI personalities. ReliaSquatch Coffee is still in development.
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Chaos and Caffeine Episode 49 EASA and Insulation Testing
In this episode we discuss our experience at the 2026 EASA conference, electrical insulation testing using IEEE 43 and what’s coming in IEEE P97 (insulation resistance profile and dielectric charge/discharge). We also discuss the launch of HRI Labs (Human Reliability Intelligence Labs), a MotorDoc funded pre-launch startup.
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Chaos and Caffeine Podcast, Data Science, Electric Machine, ESA, MCSA, ML, Reliasquatch, UncategorizedChaos and Caffeine Podcast 48 The Reliasquatch Coffee Test and Machine Intelligence
In this episode we try a sample of potential ReliaSquatch coffee that will be provided at the upcoming EASA conference. We discuss upcoming conferences, workshops and expansions to MotorDoc LLC – and a few other surprises. We end with responses to a few questions and comments we have received in email and social media.
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Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 47 Bigfoot Baselines and Bad Assumptions
In this episode we try a cheap office coffee and then Jun and I discuss the use of counterfactual approaches for energy, waste stream, process, reliability and maintenance. We then use examples of each and provide information on how to make energy and reliability programs survive. Here is the YouTube link if you don’t see…
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Not My First Rodeo: How Projects Get Lost in the Weeds
In a recent project request I was asked to evaluate an ongoing study. When I started into the work I quickly realized why I was asked to look at the project. I am going to be vague as this was not unusual in every kind of project we’ve seen: the scope of the project was…
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ELECTRIC MACHINE ROTOR BAR REAL OR FALSE POSITIVE A CASE STUDY
Vibration, electrical and current signature analysis, each are technologies that can provide a great deal of information on the condition of our electric machines. In this case study an 1800 RPM, 715 RPM, 4000 volt vertical electric motor originally was operated across-the-line as shown in Figure 1. In 2021, the motor was found to have…
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