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Reliability Gang PodcastAuthor: Will Bower & Will Crane
Welcome the #Reliabilitygang Podcast! I would like to welcome you all to my reliability journey. I am passionate about reliability and I want to share as much as I can with everyone with my experiences. Stories are powerful and my aim of this outlet is to gather as many insights and experiences and share them with the world. Thanks for joining the #reliabilitygang. Language: en-gb Genres: Business, Physics, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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What If Reliability Starts With Identity Not Tech? with Ruth Rollings
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
Send us Fan MailWelcome to a special series of podcasts brought straight from Mainstream UK Summit, we are proud to be the official podcast sponsors of such a incredible networking event.Reliability gets talked about like it’s a software purchase, but the real work is messy, human, and deeply practical. We’re joined by Ruth Rowlings, a maintenance manager with a Royal Navy background now working in aerospace precision machining in Leicester, where many machines are 25 to 30 years old and the team still delivers 85%+ availability month after month. We get into what that actually demands when you’re short on engineers and every hour of downtime hurts. We focus on the people system behind maintenance reliability: onboarding that’s “cut and dry”, handovers that don’t lose days, and a culture where engineers and operators trust their own senses to spot change early. Ruth shares how they stop accepting a history of neglect, use root cause analysis for repeat breakdowns, and keep accountability learning-focused rather than finger-pointing. One of the standout ideas is building a “business within the business” through identity, team cohesion, and a clear ethos: “Fix today, improve tomorrow.” On the predictive maintenance side, Ruth makes a strong case for starting condition monitoring before your site feels ready. Sometimes the first win is simply knowing a failure is coming so you can order parts and cut lead-time delays. We also hear why her team built an in-house sensor approach for complex multi-axis CNC assets when suppliers couldn’t cover what mattered most, plus what they learned from early success and real-world sensor issues. If you’re trying to improve maintenance management, reliability culture, and condition monitoring in a high-mix manufacturing environment, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a colleague, and leave a review, what’s the first culture change you’d make on your site?Support the show
