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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 Rooted in 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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225-Maintenance is a Marathon, Not a Sprint with Michael Mazur

225-Maintenance is a Marathon, Not a Sprint with Michael Mazur

Maintenance is a Marathon, Not a Sprint with Michael Mazur

We’re glad to have Michael Mazur from Schwan’s Global Supply Chain. With 10 years at that plant, he currently holds the role of a maintenance technician. He’s previously worked as a trainer and supervisor at Schwan’s. Michael started as an electronics maintenance technician in the navy. He was there for 21 years before moving on to Kone Elevators as a customer service analyst. He then became a vocational trainer at Lincoln Technical Institute.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

  • How easy is it to develop a maintenance program?
  • Why is maintenance a marathon and not a sprint?
  • How do you prepare for this marathon?

… and so much more!

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224-Crossing the Chasm with Patrick Parker

224-Crossing the Chasm with Patrick Parker

Crossing the Chasm with Patrick Parker

Patrick Parker works for Rockwell and prior to that he worked with the US Navy. In the Navy he started as a technician and climbed all the way up. His experience is well rounded in that he touches base with everything. He has been involved in maintenance and reliability for 13 years. Right now he is focused on Industry 4.0 which is the connective enterprise. It is basically leveraging technology and the digital world to be able to connect to get more insight of your business or operation. You integrate it all together to better understand what is happening in your business so as to make better decisions.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

  • Why are companies not realizing benefits?
  • How does crossing the Chasm relate to Industry 4.0?
  • How do Organizations Cross the Chasm?
  • Is the technology applied in IOT?
  • How do we know what Data we need to make this successfully?

… and so much more!

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223-Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

223-Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

Asset Investment Planning with Paul Daoust

Back with us is Paul Daoust, the founder of Scio Asset Management. He’s also a member of the PEMAC board of directors. Paul’s helped us tackle different topics on several previous shows. That’s due to his extensive experience in the oil, gas, and energy sectors. He’s also gotten life cycle and investment planning experience. That’s while assembling capital and operating projects on various operations.

His knowledge will help us get more insight into:

  • What asset investment planning is
  • How it works
  • Why your organization needs it
  • How proposed regulatory requirements affect it
  • Where to get the necessary data

… and so much more!

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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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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:

  1. What asset integrity management is
  2. Regulatory requirements in place
  3. How do we develop an asset integrity management system
  4. 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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