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Rooted in Reliability: The Plant Performance Podcast

A weekly Maintenance and Reliability podcast covering common industry challenges and what you can learn from them. Each episode dives deeper into critical issues and explains how you can begin correcting theses maintenance flaws today. Sharing new tips and techniques to help you achieve industry best practice and shining a light on widely debated maintenance topics with special guest experts.

Your host and founder of High Performance Reliability James Kovacevic, will take you on a weekly tour of his 13+ years of shop floor experience, along with special guest that lend an expert look inside your maintenance departments problems and concerns.

Plane, train, or automobile, however you’re traveling to work Rooted In Reliability is compatible for listening on the go.

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233 – Learning from Failure with Jim Fitch

233 – Learning from Failure with Jim Fitch

Learning from Failure with Jim Fitch

We’re excited to have Jim Fitch, the CEO of Noria Corporation and the director of ICML, back. He previously explored ICML 55, the standard around lubrication programs. ICML was founded about 18 years ago as a non-profit. It was to provide certification resources for organizations and individuals who needed certificates for completing their training. Noria Corporation is a for-profit services company that’s 22 years old. It provides training and consulting services globally, relating to oil analysis and lubrication. They also offer transformation services. These are for plants moving from their current state to something closer to the greatest reference state. Noria also publishes machine lubrication magazines among other e-publications. They’re also a conferencing company.

In this episode, we covered:

What has Noria learned about failures related to lubrication?
How many failures can be attributed to a lubrication-related issue?
Do the employees’ skillsets and training levels contribute to failures?
And much more!

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232 – Machinery Installation: Strategy with Roman Megela

232 – Machinery Installation: Strategy with Roman Megela

Machinery Installation: Strategy with Roman Megela

We’re glad to have Roman Megela, a reliability engineer with Easy-Laser. With over 20 years of experience, he’s been a service manager, assembly manager, and commissioner for gas compression systems. Roman’s also worked in steel and glass production, as well as oil and gas. He’s joined us before, shedding light on different elements involved in machinery installation. We started with Integrity and will look at strategy in machinery installation.

To recap, integrity is the practice of being honest. It’s showing consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral, ethical values and principles. It means you are doing what you say you’re doing.

Roman will give us insights on:

What is the Strategy element
What does a strategy have to do with machine installation
What should you include in a strategy

… and so much more!

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230 – Ensuring Effective Remote Training with Chris Christenson

230 – Ensuring Effective Remote Training with Chris Christenson

Ensuring Effective Remote Training with Chris Christenson

We’re excited to have Chris Christenson, the director of education at Noria. He’s been there for seven years and has been in the adult learning and education field for about 16 years. That involved building curriculum courses and programs. He also did training in classrooms for adult learners. Chris became a performance coach which helped him focus on individual performance. That’s helped him at Noria with building more courses for adult learning. It’s also enabled them to upgrade their trainers’ skills.

Together we’ll take an in-depth look at:

What remote training is
When to use it
Its challenges over traditional face to face training

… and so much more!

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229 – Building Support for FMEA with Fred Schenkelberg

229 – Building Support for FMEA with Fred Schenkelberg

Building Support for FMEA with Fred Schenkelberg

We’re glad to have Fred Schenkelberg from the Accendo Reliability website joining us. He hosts the Speaking of Reliability podcast and even does reliability webinars. Fred also has articles and helps create online courses on Accendo. He’s well versed in the product development space of reliability engineering. But among the tools used, he’ll give us an in-depth look into gaining support for FMEAs.

Fred will give us insight on:

Are organizations willing to give up their resources?
What can you do to gain support for FMEAs?
Top points for building support for FMEAs

… and so much more!

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228 – Reliability Career with Tim Holmes

228 – Reliability Career with Tim Holmes

Reliability Career with Tim Holmes

We’re excited to have Tim Holmes joining us. Tim’s presented at conferences and worked with SMRPs. He’s also DuPont Operations’ principal internal corporate consultant for reliability and maintenance engineering. Before that, he was involved in maintenance and reliability as well as Six Sigma. He’s actively involved in SMRP since 2011. Tim’s a Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineer and engineering in public policy graduate with a total experience of 33 years in the field.

Tim will give us insight on:

How did he get pulled into maintenance and reliability?
Roles that influenced Tim’s view on maintenance and reliability
What is the difference between maintenance and reliability engineering?
Which roles allowed him to better understand maintenance and reliability?

… and so much more!

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227 – Machinery Installation: Integrity with Roman Megela

227 – Machinery Installation: Integrity with Roman Megela

Machinery Installation: Integrity with Roman Megela

We’re excited to have Roman Megela joining us. He’s a senior reliability engineer with Easy-Laser. Before that, he was a service manager, and he also worked in the service engineering field. Roman’s primarily worked with rotating equipment for over 20 years. He’s dealt with glass production and stainless-steel production.

He’s also been involved in oil and gas, mainly dealing with oxygen gas compression systems. He dealt with blowers, compressors, fans, and pumps for oxygen production, among others. Roman’s career specialty, however, lies in machinery installation, assembly, and their placement. He’s also been a commissioner for oil and gas, commissioning these globally in areas such as the US, Asia, Singapore, and Europe.

Roman will give us insight on:

What machinery installation is
Why proper machine installation is important
What integrity is and how it can apply during machine installation procedures

… and so much more!

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226 – Easy RCA with Bob Latino

226 – Easy RCA with Bob Latino

Easy RCA with Bob Latino

Bob Latino, an expert on root cause analysis with 36 years of experience, joined us on this episode to discuss Root Cause Analysis and the Easy Root Cause Analysis program that he and his team have developed.

We’ll go into the nuances of:

Defining RCA
Features of the programme
Hurdles and possible solutions in making the programme a success

… and so much more!

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225-Maintenance is a Marathon, Not a Sprint with Michael Mazur

225-Maintenance is a Marathon, Not a Sprint with Michael Mazur

Maintenance is a Marathon, Not a Sprint with Michael Mazur

We’re glad to have Michael Mazur from Schwan’s Global Supply Chain. With 10 years at that plant, he currently holds the role of a maintenance technician. He’s previously worked as a trainer and supervisor at Schwan’s. Michael started as an electronics maintenance technician in the navy. He was there for 21 years before moving on to Kone Elevators as a customer service analyst. He then became a vocational trainer at Lincoln Technical Institute.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

How easy is it to develop a maintenance program?
Why is maintenance a marathon and not a sprint?
How do you prepare for this marathon?

… and so much more!

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224-Crossing the Chasm with Patrick Parker

224-Crossing the Chasm with Patrick Parker

Crossing the Chasm with Patrick Parker

Patrick Parker works for Rockwell and prior to that he worked with the US Navy. In the Navy he started as a technician and climbed all the way up. His experience is well rounded in that he touches base with everything. He has been involved in maintenance and reliability for 13 years. Right now he is focused on Industry 4.0 which is the connective enterprise. It is basically leveraging technology and the digital world to be able to connect to get more insight of your business or operation. You integrate it all together to better understand what is happening in your business so as to make better decisions.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

Why are companies not realizing benefits?
How does crossing the Chasm relate to Industry 4.0?
How do Organizations Cross the Chasm?
Is the technology applied in IOT?
How do we know what Data we need to make this successfully?

… and so much more!

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223-Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

223-Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

Back with us is Paul Daoust, the founder of Scio Asset Management. He’s also a member of the PEMAC board of directors. Paul’s helped us tackle different topics on several previous shows. That’s due to his extensive experience in the oil, gas, and energy sectors. He’s also gotten life cycle and investment planning experience. That’s while assembling capital and operating projects on various operations.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

What asset investment planning is
How it works
Why your organization needs it
How proposed regulatory requirements affect it
Where to get the necessary data

… and so much more!

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222-Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

222-Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

Today, we’re welcoming Rob Kalwarowsky from Rob’s Reliability project. He’s currently an asset manager at Enbridge, handling their mechanical assets. Rob was previously a reliability consultant for five years, as well as a reliability engineer at Teck Resources. He’s been on a few of our previous podcasts.

But today, he’s helping us look into aspects of spare parts optimization such as:

What spare parts optimization is
The data necessary to help with optimization
The available approaches and formulas to calculate it
How often should you review your optimization process

… and so much more!

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221-Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

221-Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

Should I Hire or Build an RE with Bill Leahy

I’m excited to have Bill Leahy with us for a deep dive into whether organizations should build an RE internally, or they should hire externally to fill those roles. Bill has worked at Eruditio for the past three years and is currently a senior instructor there.

Today, we’re tackling important points such as:

What an RE is
The educational and professional qualifications that an RE needs to have
The pros and cons of internal versus external hires
How to train candidates for the role

… and so much more!

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220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson and George Williams started Reliability X. Joe Anderson is the COO and George is the CEO. Reliability X is a consulting organization that offers the implementation of holistic reliability for manufacturing sites. They also offer coaching, mentoring and teaching in a variety of mechanisms. They have partnered with the University of Wisconsin. Both of them have a vast amount of experiencing totaling 55 years. Here, they share with us some of their nuggets.

In this episode:

What is Reliability
Why should we sell Reliability yet it is the right thing to do
How do you sell to The Upper Management
How do you sell to the Plant Floor

… and so much more!

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219-How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

219-How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

How Detailed Should a Job Plan Be with Jeff Shiver

Jeff Shiver works with People and Processes. He is heavily involved with maintenance and reliability. He has made presentations for years. He started out in Procter and Gamble doing controls and engineering. He has also worked with Mars in four different plants and also held cooperate roles. He was a maintenance and production manager. He left in 2006 and started People and Processes.

When it comes to planning and practitioning, he has 25 years of experience. Many people suffer with planning in an organization yet it is the hub of everything. So Jeff tells us more.

Jeff will help us get a look at:

Why do Organizations need to Plan their Work
How Detailed should Job Plans be
How do we know if we are going too deep or not deep at all
How do you deal with a Planner with a strong background in another Trade

… and so much more!

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218-OEE Modeling with Brad McCully

218-OEE Modeling with Brad McCully

OEE Modeling with Brad McCully

We’re delighted to have Brad McCully joining us. He’s a business development executive at Advanced Technology Services and has been a part of the company since its founding in 1985. But, he got involved in the manufacturing field much earlier in his career, working at various levels for Caterpillar.

Brad will help us get a look at:

What asset performance is
What OEE is and how it relates to asset performance
The importance of OEE in organizations
What OEE modeling is and how organizations use it
How to get started and the possible risks

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