Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 32 The Fragile Grid Why Electricity Is Getting More Expensive

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https://youtu.be/X9xvBPkcyRI This episode dives straight into one of the most misunderstood issues in modern energy: what really happens when maintenance fails and why your electricity bill feels it. Recorded over…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 31 Streamline Conference C Suite ROI Energy and Emissions

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We attended the Streamline Conference this week, a book review of 'Condition Monitoring ROI Calculator' book and associated website by Abraham Brooks, and then the application of free US DOE…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 29 Bridging the Gap from Theory to Real World Reliability

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In this episode we will have ChatGPT Juniper as our co-host - a fun little experiment and an attempt to go by a script (not very well). We discuss the…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 26 Condition Based Reactive Maintenance

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When monitoring systems detect faults after they occur they are not condition-based nor are they predictive maintenance, they become condition-based reactive maintenance. In this episode we fall back on Deathwish…

Chaos and Caffeine Episode 25 EMPOWER Vibration and MCSA with Peppermint Mocha

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A review of the upcoming EMPOWER-VIB vibration analysis system and the EMPOWER-MCSA current signature analysis system available the first week in January, 2026. Includes the new features for time to…

Chaos and Caffeine Podcast 22 Holiday Coffee and the Real Purpose of the P to F Chart

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We enjoy some chocolate and peppermint coffee while discussing the real original use of the P-F chart per Nowlan and Heap (https://motordoc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RCMOrig.pdf) and the expansion by Moubray in 'RCM II).…