Reliability 4.0 podcast

Welcome to the Reliability.com Podcast with CEO Sebastian Traeger, exploring innovations, challenges, and experiences in maintenance and asset management. Tune in weekly for expert insights and tips to enhance operational excellence.

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E56: Building Reliability Into Aging Water Infrastructure

E55: Go Back to the Basics: Reliability Lessons From Fresenius

E54: How La-Z-Boy Is Standardizing Reliability Across Plants

E53: How United Utilities Built a Maintenance Excellence Culture Across 700+ Facilities

E52: Building a Reliability Program from the Ground Up at NTT Global Data Centers

E51: Why AI Fails Without Good Data—and How to Build a Reliability Foundation First

E49: Why Most KPIs Fail—and How to Make Reliability Actually Drive Strategy

E48: How Haleon Built a Technician-Led RCA Culture (Without Adding More Meetings)

E47: Turning Data into Better Asset Decisions with Ali Walsh

E46: Back to Basics – Reliability Lessons from Ego Pharmaceuticals with Reuben Walters

E45: Usable Capacity and Root Cause Analysis with Drew Hellyer from Aurizon

E44: From Coal to Condition Monitoring with Richard Barber from Drax Group

E43: Reliability at Sea with Esther van der Voort from Anthony Veder

EP42: From Culture to Condition Monitoring with Marian Samaan from Diageo

E41: Escaping Pilot Purgatory with Leo Castillo from ICU Medical

EP40: Capturing Expert Knowledge with Causal AI—Ron Norris on the Future of RCA

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Reliability 4.0

This podcast is your premier destination to unravel how cutting-edge technologies like AI, IoT, and Big Data are revolutionizing the way we approach reliability and maintenance in various industries. Our host, the CEO of Reliability.com, Sebastian Traeger, uses his extensive experience to illuminate the most pressing topics in the reliability engineering field today. The Reliability 4.0 Podcast is here to keep you informed and inspired, bringing you insightful discussions, interviews with leading experts, and real-world case studies. Subscribe now to never miss an episode!

Wastewater plants have gotten away with reactive maintenance for decades. That’s changing. In this episode of Reliability 4.0, Lauren Michael from City of Cedar Rapidsshares how her team is building a proactive reliability culture inside a 45-year-old wastewater treatment plant.

Lauren explains why executive sponsorship was critical to launching their reliability transformation, and how involving leadership from the very beginning helped create buy-in across operations, finance, HR, and city leadership.

We discuss:

🔸 Why many wastewater plants are still operating reactively

🔸 How Cedar Rapids launched “Program Phoenix” to improve reliability

🔸 Why executive sponsorship must start at kickoff—not after the fact

🔸 How RCA helped shift the culture away from blame

🔸 Why wastewater operators need reliability more than ever as infrastructure ages

If your organization is trying to improve asset performance while working with aging infrastructure and limited resources, this episode is full of practical lessons.

This episode is available on:

📺 YouTube: https://youtu.be/65UtsavmfJg

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reliability-4-0/id1729943699

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