ReliabilityRadio EP 370: Joe Lee, Aidentyx

So your company does this across a lot of different industries, not just maintenance and reliability.

Right.

What's one of the things you're seeing in this industry, in maintenance reliability? So, like, when somebody in that expo hall-

Mm-hmm

... just walking around, what is something that you see as more indicative of maintenance reliability that isn't a problem somewhere else?

Well, I mean, so my background is industrial automation, so I, I, I grew up in manufacturing, uh, but more on the control side, right? Uh, what I see, uh, so, so for the controls guys, this is all about production, right? Am I able to make something and make something fast with high quality? Well, maintenance and reliability is very different, right? They are like...

They don't measure themselves with production quality data.

The- but their only focus, and a, and a very important one, is uptime, right? Is, is, hey, I want to help this control engineer run this machine, uh, nonstop without any stoppages, right? And, uh, and, uh, what I see the challenge for the reliability guys, uh, is that an organization typically are more willing to invest in making stuff and less in preventing stuff.

And, and I think that's where, that's where I see difference.

I don't know if I answer your question.

So I mean, uh, what you're saying, it makes perfect sense to us that have been in this world for forever-

Yeah.

Yeah

... where maintenance and reliability is still looked at a cost-

Yeah

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instead of something that ensures production.

Absolutely.

Right? So how do you think that we can...

Using what you do at Identix, is that something where we can help raise the profile of maintenance and reliability-

Right

... and say, "Hey, I know that you're, you really wanna focus on your production numbers," right?

Right.

The, the old school OEE approach.

Right.