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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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140 – The Job Plan Library with Brandon Weil

140 – The Job Plan Library with Brandon Weil

The Job Plan Library with Brandon Weil

Technicians and engineers carry out their day to day tasks in a standard way. Sometimes, there are variations in the operating conditions but the standard procedures stay the same. They are doing PMs and different sorts of analysis. Some are really good at it because they have been doing it for a long time. The experience and knowledge of those people should be written down somewhere so that others can adopt those best practices to carry out their standard routine work the same way. This is something a Job Plan Library can help with. It is the standard plan work that is written down and implemented the same way every single time.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What is the Job Plan Library?
  • Why we need a Job Plan Library?
  • Where do we start when building a Job Plan Library?
  • How should a Job Plan Library be organized?
  • And much more!

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SMRP18 – Electrical Motor Maintenance with Howard Penrose

SMRP18 – Electrical Motor Maintenance with Howard Penrose

SMRP18 – Electrical Motor Maintenance with Howard Penrose

Motor maintenance is very important because the electric motors are vital parts of every machinery. There is a trend in the organizations that they don’t pay much attention to the motors. This is also because of the lack of communication between mechanical and electrical technicians. Sometimes, they are not trained and other times, their roles are responsibilities are not clearly defined. This creates great confusion in the mind of the cross-sectional departments and motors end up either not being maintained. Another reason behind motors not being properly looked after is that the technicians don’t have the training to do so.
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SMRP18 – What is Machine Learning with Philip Garcia

SMRP18 – What is Machine Learning with Philip Garcia

SMRP 18 – What is Machine Learning with Philip Garcia

Reliability is a very wide term and has numerous applications in different industries. With the new technologies, concepts, and reliability solutions based on iIOT, Cloud servers, and distributed computing, the reliability programs do everything on any kind of machines. Machine Learning plays a huge role in doing these wonderful things. Machine learning can be used to do enhanced condition-bases monitoring. There are a number of variables that we need to take care of if we want to prevent failures ahead of time and increase the uptime of the assets. This is a very generic application of Machine Learning.
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139 – Change Management with Scott Deckers

139 – Change Management with Scott Deckers

Change Management with Scott Deckers

The organizations are always going through one or the other change. Whether it’s the change in roles and responsibilities, the change in the technology or the change in the CMMS itself. Everything changes in the industry all the time and it is always at a higher rate than the organizations keep up with it. When we talk about the change, it always starts with the change in processes. When a business process changes, everything else changes with it. Whenever a change is to be implemented, the first question that pops up in everyone’s mind is ‘WHY’.

In this episode, we covered:

  • What is Change Management?
  • The various Change Management models available
  • What organizations need to do to prepare for change
  • The never ending journey of change

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138 – 4 Tips to Elevate your Coaching with Lisa Brownlee

138 – 4 Tips to Elevate your Coaching with Lisa Brownlee

4 Tips to Elevate your Coaching with Lisa Brownlee

Coaching is one of the key activities that help individual employees bring out the best of themselves to the table. It helps in maximizing their performance by making the best use of their abilities. A good coach helps the trainees to focus on the work they are doing. He facilitates them in every way he can so that they would improve their work by themselves. It can be a hard job sometimes because it’s a two-way street. The coaching will only be effective if the employee and coach are both receptive to the learning. They need to be willing to make improvements.

In this episode, we covered:

  • How to coach your people
  • How to motivate and put your people to their highest performance
  • What is the proper coaching
  • How to be an effective coach
  • What is LACE and what this affects your coaching  technique
  • And much more!

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SMRP18 – What’s New with SDT with Allan Rienstra

SMRP18 – What’s New with SDT with Allan Rienstra

What’s New with SDT with Allan Rienstra

Condition based monitoring is good for the equipment to do predictive analysis. Ultrasound helps greatly with this part. SDT is one of the leading ultrasound solutions companies in the world and they have introduced a new ultrasound tool to make the lubrication process better in the facilities. This new tool is called SDT-340 and it is combined with UAS4.0. SDT-340 collects machine data based on the ultrasound sensors and the new Ultra Analysis Suite detects even the slow moving machine parts where even a teeniest of rotation occurs in the systems. That is what makes it unique along with other upgrades that it had built-in.
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137 – Scheduling Best Practices with Christine Banham

137 – Scheduling Best Practices with Christine Banham

Scheduling Best Practices with Christine Banham

Scheduling is one of the key pieces in Maintenance and Management. When you are working on a piece of equipment vigorously to meet your production goals, some problems now and then are bound to occur. Now, these problems need to be fixed in time. This is how a maintenance job starts. When a job is created, it is planned and then needs time and resources to be completed successfully. That’s where scheduling comes in. The job of Maintenance Scheduler involves gathering all the information about a job, make sense of it, and then coordinate with all the related department to complete it just as planned.
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SMRP18 – Is It Time for a CRO with Allan Ross

SMRP18 – Is It Time for a CRO with Allan Ross

Is It Time for a CRO with Allan Ross

It is a common practice in the organizations to spend money on the maintenance of the equipment. They bring in a lot of people on board to fix the machines and every time a failure occurs, the maintenance guys do a temporary fix, and on and on it goes. In this process of fixing machines, if the organizations paid as much attention to the reliability of the assets rather than divert all their resources towards maintenance side of things, they might finally have a sustainable maintenance and reliability program. Maintenance and Reliability go hand in hand. You can’t just focus on maintenance alone.
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SMRP18 – What is IIoT with Blair Fraser

SMRP18 – What is IIoT with Blair Fraser

What is IIoT with Blair Fraser

There are new emerging technologies that are helping organizations in the Maintenance and Reliability industry. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of things are one of the hot topics out there. The part of IOT that is used for the industry best practices is called iIOT. When it comes to the Predictive Maintenance, iIOT and Augmented Reality are one of the best solutions in the Market. They might be suitable for organizations that have a legacy to live up to but the money that you invest in these data sensing technologies is worth everything.
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136 – 5 Tips to Delegate without Fear with Lisa Brownlee

136 – 5 Tips to Delegate without Fear with Lisa Brownlee

5 Tips to Delegate without Fear

Delegation is one of the most important pieces of leadership and organizational development. Delegation means that you are sharing the resources for the betterment of resources. It not only helps in organizational development but it also helps in individual growth of the employees. The thing with delegation is that it requires acceptance and willingness of the personnel to be successful. The other difficulty comes forth when there are individual agendas and egos are at stakes. Some people just have a hard time letting go of the control and power that they have. But overall, delegation is a key trait that helps you bring about the change management.
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SMRP18 – Planning and Scheduling with Jeff Shiver

SMRP18 – Planning and Scheduling with Jeff Shiver

Planning and Scheduling with Jeff Shiver

Planning and scheduling is a term often used in the organizations. It might be used together but there is a difference in ‘planning’ and ‘scheduling’. Planning is when you determine what jobs you have to do, develop a procedure to execute the job, assign resources, and then utilize those resources in the best way possible. Only when you have successfully planned a work-order, you can decide when to do it in the scheduling part. So both the processes go together and one can’t be completed successfully without the other. Only scheduling something is not going to help you successfully implement it.
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135 – Implementing a CMMS with Jeff O’Brien

135 – Implementing a CMMS with Jeff O’Brien

Implementing a CMMS with Jeff O’Brien

When an organization decides to replace or transition all of their storage data onto a CMMS, it is not just about making the work easier and efficient. You can’t just buy a software online and the expect it to solve your maintenance issues and reduce cost. CMMS is just a tool to improve your work order by properly integrating it with your current data systems and then plan your work so that you would not have to make uninformed decisions anymore. You will have all the data to help you make an intelligent decision, save time, and reduce your maintenance cost in the end.
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SMRP18 – Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel

SMRP18 – Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel

Precision Alignment with Adam Stredel

Precision alignment plays a vital role in preventing premature failures and keeping the equipment up and running. Precision alignment can be defined as when the rotation with the center-align of the equipment is as collinear as possible. There can be a tolerance in the alignment depending upon the operating conditions. There are different types of tools to measure the misalignment but precision alignment using the laser is becoming trendy in the organizations. They are moving from old tools like straight edge and want to make sure that there is accuracy in the measurement. Even a dial indicator works just fine for alignment.
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