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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.


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101 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 1 of 2

101 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 1 of 2

Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 1 of 2

The leap towards becoming a best-in-class company is challenging. If you’re like most people, you might have wondered the difference between best in class companies and typical companies as far as reliability practices are concerned. While it’s true that there are other elements that are at play that make for a best-in-class company, one can’t deny that maintenance and reliability is one differentiating factor and a critical element at that.
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100 – People and Recruitment with Scott MacKenzie

100 – People and Recruitment with Scott MacKenzie

People and Recruitment with Scott MacKenzie

In today’s labor market, recruiting and retaining skilled workers is still a challenge in the industrial sect. In the case of Scott MacKenzie who is the President of LEAF Services, a company that provides cost-effective industrial labor solutions, clients come to him to look for manpower who are safe, focused, and with industrial background. The problem? Clients’ demand for labor is urgent, and some may even request “I need people tomorrow”.
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99 – Reliability with Ron Moore

99 – Reliability with Ron Moore

Reliability with Ron Moore

True enough, a reliable plant is a safe, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly plant. In compliance with safety laws and with workplace accidents becoming increasingly common, workplace safety is apparently one of the biggest challenge employers are facing today.
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97 – Planning and Scheduling with Brandon Weil

97 – Planning and Scheduling with Brandon Weil

Planning and Scheduling with Brandon Weil

Planning and Scheduling is the core of any reliability program. It is part of Work Control process which is described as the execution of a work order from start to end, and setting the right expectations to everyone involved. The role can be viewed separately or as a hybrid, depending on the maturity of the organization and the complexity of the process.
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96 – Electrical Reliability with Mark Rodgers

96 – Electrical Reliability with Mark Rodgers

Electrical Reliability with Mark Rodgers

Electricity or energy is what gives power to a production plant. Any organization spends a considerable amount to keep their equipment in optimal condition and ensure maximum production efficiency. If the electrical system is not up to the mark, this will not only affect the production output but also will expose the employees to potential risks.
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95 – Recruitment & Retention Best Practices with Joel Crawford

95 – Recruitment & Retention Best Practices with Joel Crawford

Recruitment & Retention Best Practices with Joel Crawford

Recruitment and employee retention are few of the areas that every company has to spend resources on. It’s not unusual that an employee may leave his/her jobs after a period of time (even during training) for various reasons. No matter what the HR initiatives and employee engagement programs are, it’s always a fact that employee will come and go, even to the best of organizations; and the only remedy to this is to keep the attrition rate to a minimum.
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94 – How to Create an Effective Corporate Reliability Group with Scott Kelley

94 – How to Create an Effective Corporate Reliability Group with Scott Kelley

How to Create an Effective Corporate Reliability Group with Scott Kelley

Most of the organization in the maintenance and reliability industry don’t have a consistent improvement in the plant production or they are not making progress at the rate they should after investing that many resources they put in the sites. The problem occurs when you don’t have an effective corporate reliability group and that is a structured unit that is actively involved in visiting your sites, reviewing your business processes, and then helping you achieve your organization’s goals by doing everything that needs to be done. They are the ones who help you see your vision for your organization see clearly.
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93 – ‘Why Does Everyone Hate Me’: How You Can Improve Your Pumpside Manner in 3 Easy Steps with Katie Switzer

93 – ‘Why Does Everyone Hate Me’: How You Can Improve Your Pumpside Manner in 3 Easy Steps with Katie Switzer

‘Why Does Everyone Hate Me’: How You Can Improve Your Pumpside Manner in 3 Easy Steps with Katie Switzer

Most people struggle with their jobs, not necessarily due to the lack of technical know-how, but because getting along well with others seems to be a challenge. This is one of the pain points that many reliability engineers and professionals are facing.
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92 – Operational Risk Management Framework with Paul Daoust

92 – Operational Risk Management Framework with Paul Daoust

Operational Risk Management Framework with Paul Daoust

When you are striving towards excellence in maintenance and reliability, there are a lot of activities that you have to perform to avoid any risks. The asset management is one of the top activities that goes on in the organizations and there can be certain risks involved while performing different operations in this phase. That’s why you need better insights to foresee the risks and try to mitigate them effectively. This is where operational risk management framework helps you to reduce and control the risks. You can identify the operational risks earlier and perform regulatory compliance more safely than ever.
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91 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2

91 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2

Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 2

In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

There has always been room for improvement when it comes to reliability and future holds a few surprise to take the predictive maintenance practices to a new level. That new level is prescriptive maintenance. That word is going to be more common in the next few years in the reliability and maintenance industry. Prescriptive maintenance can be defined as a concept that not only includes detecting degrading in the assets well ahead, it also prescribes a solution to mitigate that problem. There are multiple scenarios that you run here to know the potential outcomes and then make a decision about the operations and maintenance of the systems.
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