Rooted in Reliability: The Plant Performance Podcast

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 High Performance 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.

Episodes

316-The Frustrations of Reliability: From Strategy to Synergy with Bob Latino and Ken Latino

June 7, 2022
The Frustrations of Reliability: From Strategy to Synergy with Bob Latino and Ken Latino Welcome Bob and Ken Latino to the Podcast. Bob has been to this Podcast before discussing defect elimination and is an author involved with RCA and other reliability items. Briefly, Ken, can you introduce yourself. I worked with Bob and my […]
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315 – Prioritizing Initiatives with Paul Daoust

May 31, 2022
Prioritizing Initiatives with Paul Daoust Welcome Paul to the Podcast. Paul is the founder of Scio Asset Management. Although, briefly, tell us about yourself. I have almost 30 years experience in engineering reliability maintenance and both strategic and holistic asset management. At Scio we are providing frameworks for leadership in asset management that is based […]
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314 – Clean Energy with Howard Penrose

May 24, 2022
Clean Energy with Howard Penrose Welcome back Howard to the Podcast. Howard is the founder of Motordoc and is heavily involved with IEEE and SMRP. Though, briefly, tell us about yourself. My entire career has been about electric machines and systems from my time in the Navy. I later had short stints both in repair […]
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313 – Decarbonization and the Impact on Maintenance with Steven Dobie

May 17, 2022
Decarbonization and the Impact on Maintenance with Steven Dobie Welcome Steven to the podcast. Steven is a co-host of another podcast called Maintenance Disrupted. However briefly, tell us more about yourself. I am a maintenance and reliability engineer in the mining industry who has been in tech for a couple of years. Presently working with […]
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312 – Cost vs Benefit of Inspection with Dane Boers

May 10, 2022
Cost vs Benefit of Inspection with Dane Boers Welcome Dane back to the podcast. We last talked about asset modelling and factors that influence those assets. Today we will talk about optimising strategies; how we determine cost vs benefit of strategies. But first, give a brief introduction of yourself and Modla. Modla is an asset […]
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311 – Defect Elimination with Doug Plucknette

May 3, 2022
Defect Elimination with Doug Plucknette Welcome Doug back to the podcast. Doug is the Author, President and Owner of Reliability Solutions Inc. Though briefly, give an introduction of yourself. I started my reliability consultancy career back in 1999 after serving in several capacities at different organisations. Although currently semi-retired, I still respond to past clients […]
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310 – Name Your Spare Parts Correctly with Conrad Greer

April 26, 2022
310 – Name Your Spare Parts Correctly with Conrad Greer It is my pleasure to welcome Conrad Greer to the podcast, the founder of SPCResults. In this episode we covered: What is data cleansing? Why do we want to standardize our material information? Is MPN a saving grace? Why do we want to standardize our […]
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309 – Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Rotating Equipment with Simon Jagers

April 19, 2022
Optimizing Energy Efficiency of Rotating Equipment with Simon Jagers It is my pleasure to welcome back Simon Jagers, one of the founders of Samotics, an industrial analytics company that helps clients improve reliability and sustainability, particularly of their rotating equipment. In this episode we covered: Why is energy efficiency so important for organizations? What can […]
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308 – Determining Training ROI with Lucas Marino

April 12, 2022
Determining Training ROI with Lucas Marino It is my pleasure, to welcome back Lucas Marino to the podcast, working at The East Partnership dealing with submarine logistics. In this episode we covered: Why do you need training? How do we calculate that ROI? Why are organizations hesitant to invest in training? There are a lot […]
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307 – The Evil Ways of MTBF with Fred Schenkelberg

April 5, 2022
The Evil Ways of MTBF with Fred Schenkelberg It’s my pleasure to welcome Fred Schenkelberg back to the podcast. He is a reliability engineer and management consultant. In this episode we covered: What is MTBF? Why would people want to calculate what that average time between failure is or where did this come about? What […]
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306 – RCM Implementation with Nancy Regan

March 29, 2022
RCM Implementation with Nancy Regan It is my pleasure to welcome back Nancy Regan to the podcast, the founder of RCMtrainingonline.com. In this episode we covered: What is an RCM implementation? What challenges do you see within organizations as they go to implement the findings from their analysis? What do you believe is the most […]
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305 – Balancing Short and Long Term in Change with Shon Isenhour

March 22, 2022
Balancing Short and Long Term in Change with Shon Isenhour It’s my pleasure at welcome back, Shon Isenhour to the podcast, the owner of R and D show. In this episode we covered: How do clients get time to move and to start doing some of these proactive things? How do you manage skill traits? […]
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304 – Workforce Survey with Tom Wilk

March 8, 2022
Workforce Survey with Tom Wilk It’s my pleasure to welcome Thomas welcome back to the podcast. In this episode we covered: What was the genesis of this survey? Why do you think the organizations do the workforce training? Why do you think you’re such an increase in our interest in the certification? What was the […]
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303 – Some Parts are Good, More Must be Better with Andrew Jordan

March 1, 2022
Some Parts are Good, More Must be Better with Andrew Jordan It’s my pleasure to welcome back Andrew Jordan to the podcast, the Managing Director and CEO of Extivity. In this episode we covered: Do organisations assume that more parts in stock means reduced downtime and reduced risk? How do organisations strike that balance then […]
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302 – What is Asset Performance Management with Paul Daoust

February 22, 2022
What is Asset Performance Management with Paul Daoust It is my pleasure to welcome back Paul Daoust to the podcast. In this episode we covered: Does value leakage come in a row for variety of different places? What is asset performance management? When organizations decide to adopt APM, do they just buy the software package […]
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301 – Bolted Joint Reliability with Jorg Albrecht

February 15, 2022
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? What do […]
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300 – Past and Future Trends in Reliability

February 9, 2022
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

February 1, 2022
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 […]
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298 – Risk Based Inspection with Ricardo Santos

January 25, 2022
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 […]
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297 – The Silent Killer of Rotating Machinery – Softfoot with Daus Studenberg

January 18, 2022
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 […]
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