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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.
We’re privileged to have the Capacity Assurance Consultant for Fluke Reliability Solutions, Greg Perry. He has two decades worth of experience in the industry. So he will be talking about what availability and reliability are.
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With us, today, to talk about the Productive Leadership System (PLS) is Tom Moriarty. PLS is essential in getting maintenance and reliability principles to work.
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Shon has been on our past episodes. He is the founder of Eruditio LLC, a co-author of several books, a conference presenter, and he has been in maintenance and reliability for quite a while. He has been in the reliability sector for 20 years.
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In maintenance and reliability practices, physical risks are always present. The most common injuries are hand injuries. Today, we have Joe Geng telling us all about the importance of hand safety.
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Artificial Intelligence has become a hot topic today with organisations attempting to find ways of applying it. The fact is, however, that a good number haven’t found a compelling case for the adaption. Fred of Accendo Reliability joins us on this episode to break down what AI means for the reliability industry.
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Today we host Doug, the Vice President of Global operations, UE Systems. He has been with the organization since the 80s. He has spent a lot of time working with ultrasound technology.
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Manjish Naik and Sarah Lukens join us to discuss how to overcome data quality issues with KPIs.
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Data is the single most important parameter that helps you define the rest of the parameters in asset management. That’s why it is very important to capture the right data in the most efficient manner possible—capturing it using digital means rather than traditional ways. Some organizations struggle with digital transformation because they have been doing things the traditional way for the longest of time period and they have difficulty understanding the benefits digital transformation brings to a company. Digital transformation starts with asking the right questions and getting answers by using reliable data, analyzing it, and then, utilizing it to bring value to the organization.
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This episode revolves around the book titled as Reliability Centered Asset Management by Richard Overman. It is based on using the principles of reliability centered maintenance to manage your assets. It helps you understand the processes involved in managing your assets effectively by finding answers to questions such as; how or why your assets are failing? What are the consequences of those failures? And how to take actions to prevent those failures from occurring in the first place. It is based on the application of RCM principles to ensure reliability through-out the lifecycle of the asset.
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If a methodology or a program isn’t producing desired value for an organization even after putting all the necessary resources into it, the root cause might be the culture of that organization. The culture of an organization consists of its practices, common goals, and shared values. If people aren’t putting efforts into securing the goals that an organization values, there’s definitely something wrong with the organization’s culture. That’s why culture is so important for managing assets and the overall success of the organization. A good culture is formed when the organization has set some standard procedures and values in place to ensure certain practices.
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Joining us for this special episode are some of our past guests. In no particular order:
Lubrication is one of the most important aspects in asset management and having a sophisticated tool for this purpose makes a real difference to facilitate an organization’s lubrication program. This is where oil mist lubrication helps to achieve your lubrication goals. Its mechanism is based on creating a slightly pressured area that prevents moisture and other contaminants to enter into the bearing itself which also preserves the integrity of any vulnerable components as well as your lubricant. That’s how oil mist lubrication differs greatly from the traditional lubrication as it effectively keeps your lubricant pure from contaminants in the air outside.
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All through Europe, America and other emerging economies, the new wave of industrial technologies is bringing a fundamental shift to how we approach operations. With tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning, reliability and maintenance as we know it is being curved in vastly different ways. Martin of Uptime Works helps us get up to speed with how we can start leveraging predictive maintenance strategies to improve productivity and cut on costs.
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For maintenance and reliability programs to be successful, often it will be championed by middle management. These are the people who interact and report on progress and challenges faced on the plant floor. Brandon Weil joins us on this episode to shed some light on how middle managers can contribute to productive change in an organization.
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“We’re not invited on Oprah to talk about Maintenance Management … Podcasts allow us to get insights from our peers.”
In this episode, James once again interviews Fred Schenkelberg. Fred is the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, reliability engineering and management consulting firm he founded in 2004. Fred talks with us today about digital content and its role in the Reliability community.
We start by discussing the traffic levels on various topic posts and how the basics are still what attracts the most views and searches. Articles like Four Effective Risk Mitigation Strategies are getting roughly 4,500 views a month.
Something ruminated on is the idea that these basics articles are still so popular. That higher-education is not preparing people for their fields -and while math and science are necessary to get the job done correctly, many of the relevant day-to-day skill sets and knowledge used in these industries are learned in practice and on the job.
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