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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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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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217-Life Cycle Costing with Paul Daoust

217-Life Cycle Costing with Paul Daoust

Life Cycle Costing with Paul Daoust

It’s a pleasure for me to have Paul Daoust back again to talk about life cycle costing. Paul is the founder of Scio Asset Management, with over 25 years of experience in the asset management field. He also sits on the board of directors at PEMAC.

Together, we’ll be taking a closer look at:

What life cycle costing is and why it’s necessary
Formulas for calculating it
Who’s in charge of the process
How to get management to approve the initial investment necessary

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216-Proper Greasing with Wesley Cash

216-Proper Greasing with Wesley Cash

Proper Greasing with Wesley Cash

We’re excited to have Wesley Cash to shed light on proper greasing techniques. He’s been at Noria Corporation for nine years now and is currently their director of technical services. However, his professional experience in fields relating to reliability, lubrication, and maintenance spans over 16 years, enabling him to acquire numerous ICML and CLS certifications.

He’ll help us learn more on what’s necessary for proper greasing practices, such as:

Why lubrication is important
The type of failures it could cause
Common issues with lubricating
Proper use of a grease gun
Factors to enhance proper lubrication

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215-Remote Working with Patrick Parker

215-Remote Working with Patrick Parker

Remote Working with Patrick Parker

Patrick has been with Rockwell Automation 7 years now but previously served in the US Navy. He started out as an electronics technician then moved on to dealing with nuclear systems in aircraft. He is now a reliability professional and has 13 years work experience in his field. Patrick works from home. This is not new to him since working on a ship is similar to working from home.

In this episode:

What is the definition of remote working
What makes remote working effective
What Contributes to The Ineffectiveness of Remote Working
What Changes can people make to their home office effective

… and so much more!

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214 – Sealing in Pulp & Paper with Chuck Tanner

214 – Sealing in Pulp & Paper with Chuck Tanner

Sealing in Pulp & Paper with Chuck Tanner

Today we’re joined by Chuck Tanner, the director of market development at SEPCO. With over 25 years in the industry, he’s been helping with sealing challenges.

In this episode:

What is sealing
Why are pulp and paper sealing hard
How do we overcome contamination
Do successful organizations have good maintenance programs on the seals to improve reliability

… and so much more!

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213 – Scheduling for All with John Reeve

213 – Scheduling for All with John Reeve

Scheduling for All with John Reeve

We welcome John Reeve back to tell us all about scheduling for all. He has three decades in the industry.

John is going to guide us through:

What scheduling for all is
Its benefits
How automation can help
The struggles
The solutions

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212 – Asset Integrity with Ali Bashir

212 – Asset Integrity with Ali Bashir

Asset Integrity with Ali Bashir

Our guest today is Ali, who is a reliability and asset management consultant.

He’s going to be touching on:

What asset integrity management is
Regulatory requirements in place
How do we develop an asset integrity management system
How to make an organization successful through asset integrity management

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211-Fleet Maintenance Software vs CMMS with Sean Eckersley

211-Fleet Maintenance Software vs CMMS with Sean Eckersley

Fleet Maintenance Software vs CMMS with Sean Eckersley

Sean Eckersley from Assetminder is today’s guest. He’s talking about fleet maintenance software versus the use of traditional CMMS’s.

Various assets can have different maintenance schedules. Fleet software is like CMMS but focuses on fleets of vehicles. These include trucks, trailers, and even plant machinery. A Computerized Maintenance Management System, or CMMS, focuses on assets like manufacturing equipment.

We will tackle:

Differences between a fleet software and CMMS
How does a CMMS fail to support fleets
Can you also add third-party vendors into the system
And much more!

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210-Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry

210-Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry

Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry

We’re privileged to have the Capacity Assurance Consultant for Fluke Reliability Solutions, Greg Perry. He has two decades worth of experience in the industry. So he will be talking about what availability and reliability are.

We will tackle:

What are availability and reliability
What are the inherent availability and inherent reliability
Do companies confuse inherent versus the actual values
And much more!

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209-The Productive Leadership System with Tom Moriarty

209-The Productive Leadership System with Tom Moriarty

The Productive Leadership System with Tom Moriarty

With us, today, to talk about the Productive Leadership System (PLS) is Tom Moriarty. PLS is essential in getting maintenance and reliability principles to work.

We will tackle:

What leadership is
What is PLS
How to improve leadership within the organization
How to begin the journey to having good productive leadership in your organization

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208-Pros and Cons of Different RCA Methods with Shon Isenhour

208-Pros and Cons of Different RCA Methods with Shon Isenhour

Pros and Cons of Different RCA Methods with Shon Isenhour

Shon has been on our past episodes. He is the founder of Eruditio LLC, a co-author of several books, a conference presenter, and he has been in maintenance and reliability for quite a while. He has been in the reliability sector for 20 years.

This episode focuses on:

What is root cause analysis
What are the Different Tools of RCA
How do You Pick a Tool to Use

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