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James Kovacevic — Thought Leader

Author of Maintenance and Reliability articles, ebooks, and host of Rooted in Reliability, co-host on Speaking of Reliability.


This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

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301 – Bolted Joint Reliability with Jorg Albrecht

301 – Bolted Joint Reliability with Jorg Albrecht

Bolted Joint Reliability with Jorg Albrecht

It is my pleasure to welcome Jorg Albrecht to the podcast, the managing director of Heavy Technologies.

In this episode we covered:

  • What do you consider a bolted joint?
  • How do we normally determine if a bolt is ‘properly in place’?
  • How do we measure clamping force?

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300 – Past and Future Trends in Reliability

300 – Past and Future Trends in Reliability

Past and Future Trends in Reliability

It is my pleasure to welcome our panelists today, Eric Elder, Maureen Gribble, Jenna Johns, and Shon Isenhour.

In this episode we covered:

  • What were the things you were seeing people asking about at that conference?
  • What does the future look like for the reliability industry?
  • 2022 Conference Plans!

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299 – Ensuring Transformer Reliability with Howard Penrose

299 – Ensuring Transformer Reliability with Howard Penrose

Ensuring Transformer Reliability with Howard Penrose

It is my pleasure to welcome Howard Penrose back to the podcast.

In this episode we covered:

  • Why are electrical reliability or electrical assets neglected?
  • What are the major types of transformers?
  • If we detect a high level of moisture in the oil, do we change the oil or is it a little more complicated than that?

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298 – Risk Based Inspection with Ricardo Santos

298 – Risk Based Inspection with Ricardo Santos

Risk Based Inspection with Ricardo Santos

It is my pleasure to welcome Ricardo Santos to the podcast, a Senior Manager at Deloitte.

In this episode we covered:

  • What is RBI – Risk-Based Inspection?
  • When would organizations want to leverage risk-based inspections over RCM or something else?
  • Why do organizations want to go about implementing RBI process?

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297 – The Silent Killer of Rotating Machinery – Softfoot with Daus Studenberg

297 – The Silent Killer of Rotating Machinery – Softfoot with Daus Studenberg

The Silent Killer of Rotating Machinery – Softfoot with Daus Studenberg

It is my pleasure to welcome Daus Studenberg to the podcast, the product manager, a national product manager of the alignment with Lu DACA.

In this episode we covered:

  • How many ways can we?
  • What is soft foot?
  • If we’re going to perform a proper installation, we got to consider soft foot. Is that before or after we do an alignment?

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296 – Bearing Lubrication Reimagined with Ian Conyers

296 – Bearing Lubrication Reimagined with Ian Conyers

Bearing Lubrication Reimagined with Ian Conyers

It’s my pleasure to welcome Ian Conyers to the podcast, the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic US regional manager at UIE systems.

In this episode we covered:

  • How important is good bearing lubrication to maintaining our assets?
  • What are the current challenges that we face as an industry and why aren’t we overcoming these things?
  • How does one account to get something accurate?

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Are You a Ghost Leader?

Are You a Ghost Leader?

How you lead and support maintenance and reliability improvements may cause it’s failure

Have you ever wondered what some leaders and ghosts have in common? Well, I will get to that, but let me paint you a picture. You have been told to start improving the storeroom, so you start by analyzing the performance, identify gaps and finally develop a plan to make the improvement. You share this improvement plan and business case with the senior leadership of the site.  You get a resounding “Let’s do it” across the room. You leave super excited to start the improvement journey. As you start implementing the improvements, you run up against multiple barriers, such as finance not willing to write off obsolete parts or sell them back to the supplier for a discount. The storeroom staff “don’t have time” to assist with the cleanup or the data analysis. Since the storeroom doesn’t directly report to you, you talk to their manager, and the manager says their staff are too busy. You go to discuss the barriers with the project sponsor and leadership team, and they are still behind the project. Yet, they don’t go out and talk to the staff, nor do you hear about the project anywhere in the facility. So where are these leaders? They are a ghost to the project. [Read more…]

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295 – Real Life Metrics with Rick Clonan

295 – Real Life Metrics with Rick Clonan

Real Life Metrics with Rick Clonan

It is my pleasure to welcome back Rick clone into the podcast, the implementation and training manager at era DCO.

 

In this episode we covered:

  • What is a metric to begin with?
  • Why do organizations really use metrics?
  • With all these challenges, how do organizations either pick the right metrics or use them properly?

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The Secret Weapon: Job Kitting

The Secret Weapon: Job Kitting

How to Improve Your Storeroom and Technician Efficiency With Job Kitting

Job kitting is a tremendously powerful tool for organizations to improve their efficiency. The efficiency gains come from a reduction in the amount of time the technicians spend waiting at the storeroom, looking for parts and travel time resulting from multiple trips to the storeroom. The storeroom also has efficiency gains, such as fewer trips around the storeroom, as they have a complete list of parts required for each job and know exactly what parts are required. Also, as the storeroom kits multiple jobs, they take fewer trips around the storeroom.
So with the many benefits of job kitting, why do organizations not implement kitting or stick with it?  There are multiple reasons that prevent job kitting from being successful, but first, let’s look at what a good kitting process looks like.

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293 – Trends in Electrical Reliability with Alan Ross

293 – Trends in Electrical Reliability with Alan Ross

Trends in Electrical Reliability with Alan Ross

It is my pleasure to welcome Alan Ross to the podcast, currently president of EPRA, the chair of the Tripoli smart grid marketing committee, as well as the editor in chief of transformer technology and women in power systems.

In this episode we covered:

  • What’s happening in electrical reliability?
  • What are people doing now that they weren’t doing even five years ago?
  • Are you seeing data being used well on the electrical side?

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Ensuring a Clean and Well Functioning CMMS

Ensuring a Clean and Well Functioning CMMS

The Importance of CMMS Refresher Training and Procedures

Many organizations struggle to get the most out of their CMMS for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it is poor data quality, poor reporting, or the fact that it was not set up or configured properly during the implementation. As a result of the poor performance of the CMMS, many organization work to implement a new CMMS but end up with the same results.  Why is this? Well, there are a variety of issues at work, such as poor implementation, configuration, or even the day to day use of the CMMS.

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292 – Diversity & Inclusion in the Maintenance Community with Caitlyn Young-Gilbert

292 – Diversity & Inclusion in the Maintenance Community with Caitlyn Young-Gilbert

Diversity & Inclusion in the Maintenance Community with Caitlyn Young-Gilbert

It is my pleasure to welcome Caitlin Young Gilbert to the podcast. She is the Chief of Staff at Upkeep.

In this episode we covered:

  • What type of trends are you seeing in maintenance lately?
  • The maintenance community’s been going strong for a year now, what prompted Upkeep to start the maintenance community to begin with?
  • Did you intend to make sure that there was diversity and inclusion built into it before you launched, or did that just happen organically?

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The Failure Mode Effect Analysis

The Failure Mode Effect Analysis

Should You use a Top Down or Bottom Up Approach?

A Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) or a Failure Mode Effect Criticality Analysis (FMECA) are great tools to help develop an effective maintenance strategy.  These tools enable organizations to dive down to the failure mode level and develop preventive, predictive, or other tactics to prevent or mitigate failures.
However, there is a struggle that takes place with FMEAs of how much is enough detail and what is too much or too little. This often comes with experience and the level of risk an organization is willing to accept. The more detail, the more time, resources and effort the FMEA will take, even if the consequences are minimal.
Determining the level of detail can be determined based on the type of FMEA, and whether it is a Top-Down FMEA or a Bottom-Up FMEA.

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291 – Putting People At the Center of Work with Jeff Ma & Mohammad Anwar

291 – Putting People At the Center of Work with Jeff Ma & Mohammad Anwar

Putting People At the Center of Work with Jeff Ma & Mohammad Anwar

It is my pleasure to welcome Mohammad Anwar (Founder & CEO, Softway) and Jeff Ma (Director, Softway).

In this episode we covered:

  • What is the biggest challenge that you have experienced in leading people and teams and developing that culture overall?
  • In your book, ‘Love is a Business Strategy,’ you talk about putting people at the center of work. What does that mean and how does that relate to overcoming some of these challenges?
  • Why would organizations that are traditionally focused on the triple bottom line want to put people at the center of work?

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Understanding Soft Foot and How to Correct It

Ensure Your Precision Alignment Program Is On The Right Foot.

Imagine (or maybe you don’t have to) that you take out your brand new Easy-Laser system, and proceed to perform a shaft alignment.  However, it seems that no matter what you do, you can’t get a great alignment.  What is going on?  The foundation looks good, new shims were used, the asset is clean, and there is no pipe strain.  After some discussion with others, they mention a term in which you are unfamiliar with, soft foot.
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