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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.

by James Kovacevic

283 – Habit #4: Decide with Data with Peter Horsburgh

Habit #4: Decide with Data with Peter Horsburgh

It’s my pleasure to welcome back Peter Horsburgh. He is the author of the ‘Five Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers.’ He has a long history within reliability engineering. He essentially started in manufacturing, then moved to mining, then to power generation, and to aluminum smelting.

In this episode we covered:

  • Now we’re here to discuss habit number four; decide with data. So, what does this mean to you?
  • You mentioned data-driven debate. What is it?
  • In the book, you said problem solving should follow a framework. You mentioned problem-cause-solution-value framework. Can you elaborate a bit on that?

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by James Kovacevic

282- The Low Hanging Fruit of Lubrication Improvements with Devin Jarrett

The Low Hanging Fruit of Lubrication Improvements with Devin Jarrett

It’s my pleasure to welcome Devin Jared to the podcast. Devin is a success manager at Noria.

He has worked as a processes guy, made a transition over into the technical team, managing projects, then I stepped into the technical consultant role, then now a success manager. He officiates football on the side as a hobby.

In this episode we covered:

  • Where do we start with lubrication?
  • What are some of those low hanging fruits you typically see that we need to address in organizations?
  • Would you consider filtering oil before putting it in equipment low hanging or is that a little bit more advanced?

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by James Kovacevic

281 – Asset Criticality with Gregory Perry

281 – Asset Criticality with Gregory Perry

Welcome Gregory Perry to the Podcast. Gregory is a Capacity Assurance Consultant at Fluke Reliability. Today we will discuss asset criticality.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is asset criticality? Why is it important to organizations?
  • How do organizations determine asset criticalness?
  • What about the ranking system within each category?

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by James Kovacevic

280 – Healthy Buildings with Brian Turner

280 – Healthy Buildings with Brian Turner

Buildings IOT is a:

● System integrator
● Software developer
● Services provider for the built environment: Work spaces, play, and industrial buildings except housing.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is a healthy building?
  • Is it more than custodial work?
  • Prior to COVID-19 people rarely talked about air quality

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by James Kovacevic

279 – Learning from Metrics with Dan Miller

279 – Learning from Metrics with Dan Miller

Welcome Dan Miller to the podcast. Our topic will be metrics; how to pick the right KPIs and we will also discuss cornerstone metrics. But first, about Dan:

Dan is a maintenance reliability engineer at Global Water Resources. The guest worked as a consultant but currently is settled at the water company in Arizona.

In this episode we covered:

  • You need KPIs to ensure your assets are working correctly, right?
  • What is performance management?
  • Why do we have to do performance management?

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by James Kovacevic

278 – Maintenance Task Analysis with Lucas Marino

278 – Maintenance Task Analysis with Lucas Marino

Welcome Lucas Marino to the podcast. Lucas is the founder of East Partnership and initially spent a lot of time as an engineer with Coast Guard starting off as a diesel engineer and rising through the ranks. Today’s topic is maintenance task analysis. But first:

In this episode we covered:

  • What is the East Partnership?
  • What is maintenance task analysis?
  • So it involves everything needed to maintain an asset, correct?

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by James Kovacevic

276 – Driving Asset Answers with Suspect Data with Manjish and Yanpei

Driving Asset Answers with Suspect Data with Manjish and Yanpei

Welcome our guests to the podcast. We are going to discuss Asset Answers in today’s episode. However, briefly about our guests:

Yanpei has a background in telecom and smart grid. Currently is working as a product leader at Asset Answers.

Manjish is the service lead for Asset Answers and has been in the maintenance and reliability for 15 years building CMMS and analytic software on top of the CMMS)

In this episode we covered:

  • Many organizations have data but not information. Have you witnessed such?
  • What are the main causes of suspect data?
  • Does the data have to be perfect to start?

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by James Kovacevic

275 – Decoding Mechanical Failures: A class experience with Shane Turcott

275 – Decoding Mechanical Failures: A class experience with Shane Turcott

Welcome Shane who is the author of Decoding Mechanical Failures. More about Shane and Steel Image:

Shane is a mechanical engineer who founded Steel Image, whose primary business is analyzing information on broken parts: how it failed, mechanisms of failure, and whether the part was built correctly or not.

They avail all this information to aid those conducting RCAs.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is Mechanical Failure?
  • What is the process of diagnosing the failures?
  • How do the “boxes” work for fractures e.g. brittle?

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by James Kovacevic

274 – Dealing with Ramp Up and Degraded Assets with James Reyes-Picknell

274 – Dealing with Ramp Up and Degraded Assets with James Reyes-Picknell

Welcome James Reyes who is the author of Uptime and many other books, also a principal consultant at Conscious Asset. More about James:

Having a career that spans for 44 years, James has worked in different organizations and industries some of which include reliability on board both at sea and air. The guest began a reliability consulting career in 1995 focusing on the execution of reliability programs.

In this episode we covered:

  • What types of Issues are companies going to face?
  • How do organizations reduce the risks of these challenges?
  • Do you believe organizations are still hunkered down?

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272 – Operator Care: A Thought Out Approach with Cliff Williams

272 – Operator Care: A Thought Out Approach with Cliff Williams

Welcome Cliff Williams back to the Podcast. Cliff is a principal advisor with People and Process as well as TMS Asset Management. The guest has also worked as an asset manager for many years.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is operator care?
  • Where should we use operator care and autonomous maintenance?
  • What prerequisites are often needed to implement operator care?

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271 – Developing Operational Standards with George Williams and Joe Anderson

271 – Developing Operational Standards with George Williams and Joe Anderson

Welcome Joe Anderson and George Williams back to the podcast. They are the founders of ReliabilityX and are consultants as well as trainers. 

Briefly about them and Reliability X:

Reliability X covers all aspects of reliability; both operational and maintenance, coaching and currently creating online classes.

Joe Anderson has been in the pharma and food industries for 25 years before moving to consultancy.

George Williams has a background in pharma and medical devices rising from a technician over the years to a global reliability manager.

In this episode we covered:

  • What are operational standards?
  • Why would we need operational standards?
  • Who develops standards?

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by James Kovacevic

270 – Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg

270 – Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg

Welcome Fred back to the podcast. Clients are starting to realize that they have to design their systems properly while paying attention to certain tradeoffs. However, tell us where they should start; whether to design for reliability or maintainability.

Before starting, the team has to look at their business goals and decide whether the acquisition of any system or a piece of equipment assists to that end. It has to be a business decision.

Pay attention to:

  • The environment of usage
  • The cost of ownership; is it going to be profitable?
  • The usage rate of the tool
  • Type and quality of the tool

In this episode we covered:

  • Understanding the tradeoffs is essential while keeping the important things in mind. Where do we place time and resources? Reliability or maintainability?
  • Once they have chosen to rely on data and experience? Where do they start in designing for maintenance or reliability?
  • Create basic standards. Otherwise, the advanced things like the right model shall not matter. Basic aspects such as a complete bill of material that can be uploaded on to the CMMS, documentation should be taken into account.

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by James Kovacevic

269 – The Capabilities Trap with Simon Jagers

The Capabilities Trap with Simon Jagers

Welcome Simon back to the podcast. Simon is the founder of Samotics and has been involved in technology throughout his Career. Today we will talk about capabilities trap. Although briefly, tell us more about you:

Involved with technology, our guest focuses on: machine learning, and the conversion of data into information.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is a capabilities trap?
  • It basically refers to sacrificing everything for the short-term, right?
  • Why should we be aware of capabilities trap? How do we manage it?

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