Xcelerate20 Features Jeff Hay with RDI Technologies on Leveraging Innovation for a Reliable and Resilient Business

In this week's Industrial Talk Podcast we're talking about the virtual event of the year- Fluke Reliability’s Xcelerate20! Home to 3 powerful iconic brands – Pruftechnik, eMaint and Fluke Connect. (that right-the guys with the black and yellow tools are FAR more than just hardware!) Join forward-thinking maintenance & reliability pros as they gather, learn, get inspired and become resilient. On air we are speaking Jeff Hay, CEO of RDI Technologies about “Leveraging Technology to It's Fullest to Make Your Facility More Reliable and Resilient”. Below is a quick summary of the Xcelerate20 agenda and video of the technology provided RDI. You can find out more about Jeff and the wonderful team at RDI Technology by the links below.

Motion Amplification is a video-processing technique that detects subtle motion and enhances that motion to a level visible with the naked eye. Motion Amplification Technology can resolve motions as small as0.01 mils or 0.25 micronsand can be performed live in real-timemaking it suitable for a range of applications from field-basedmachineryfault diagnosistostructural testing.The process involves the use of a high definition,high dynamic range video camera where every pixel becomes an independent point sensor creating millions of continuous data points in an instant.This turns a camera into a full field vibration acquisition device with millions of independent sampling locations.All points in the image are acquired simultaneously meaning relative phase can be determined across the entire scene for comparative analysis across the field of view. This solves fundamental issues in today’s standard contact-based data collections, that is for large assets outfitting them with contact sensors is costly and difficult because of the sheer number of sensors required to cover the entire asset.

In addition, the technology allows the user to measure calibrated absolute displacement across the full field of view providing a time waveform and spectrum for each measured location. Motion Amplification video is supplemented with other full field vibration techniques such as Motion Maps that produce colorized images of motion, vector overlays, and transient capabilities that allow the user to Motion Amplify small motions on a moving target making it suitable for analysis on a broader range of targets. This includes tracking and measurement of motion in a moving reference frame, including spectral analysis.

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JEFF'S CONTACT INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

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SPEAKERS

Jeff Hay, Scott MacKenzie

Jeff Hay 00:04

Welcome to the industrial talk podcast with Scott MacKenzie. Scott is a passionate industry professional dedicated to transferring cutting edge industry focused innovations and trends while highlighting the men and women who keep the world moving. So put on your hard hat, grab your work boots, and let's go. All right. Greetings, you industrial professionals

Scott MacKenzie 00:23

all around the world. Thank you very much for joining the industrial talk podcast. This platform is dedicated to you the industrial professionals, the women and men who get it done. You are bold, you are brave, you dare greatly. And this is why we celebrate you each and every day on this particular podcast because you deserve it. Yeah, we celebrate you because you are absolutely wonderful. All right, in the hot seat in the industrial hot to the dot today is Jeff Hey, he is the CEO at RDI Technology. This is a fluke reliability, Xcelerate20 interview conversation. And you're saying so Scott? How come I know about fluke and you're saying yourself? I've seen that? Yep. They're much more than that. Just black and yellow meter, which are fantastic. They include brands like proof technic, he mate, and fluke Connect. And you know what? Jeff? Hey, he's going to be talking. He's going to be speaking, he's going to be featured at accelerate. 20 let's get going. Yeah. Great event. Great, great, great event must attend. Absolutely. And before we really jump into the interview with Jeff, hey, because I don't know, man. There's some great people out there. Jeff just happens to be one of them. And he's speaking at this particular event, by the way, I need for you to get your pencil and paper out. It was sort of weird pencil and paper, maybe pen and computer, maybe just your computer and put it on your calendar, whatever the technology, whatever it is, make it happen. It is Tuesday, November 17. through Thursday, November 19. And I'm telling you, they've got a just an incredible amount of great speakers, Jeff being one of them. We've got to just keep on rolling these wonderful interviews out as long as they just keep coming on in. So once again, calendar, get it on there November 17. to November 19, get it on there be a part of Xcelerate20. Now, one of the themes that happens with this particular event. And I think it's really pretty much focused on resiliency, business resiliency. What does that mean? What does the technology what is innovation? What does that bring to the table for future resiliency, business resiliency. So I always talk about collaboration, right? collaboration, innovation, and education, being at the heart of resiliency, but you got to do it with a sense of speed and purpose. And boy do you have to be tenacious, and the the speakers at this particular event, Xcelerate20 definitely fall into that category. And the theme, of course, Xcelerate20 is all about resiliency, and the solutions that are being provided with their technology with their innovation with their incredible thinking. I can't speak enough about that. Because especially today, and kudos to fluke reliability that they see and they see the necessity to be able to bring to you, the listeners and and hopefully the future participants of Xcelerate20 solutions that are truly geared toward resiliency. That's important. I mean, I can't get I can't get around it. I mean, I'm all passionate about you know, I am what the heck, man? Yeah, I mean, I'm just a big fan of industry. And boy, I'll tell you, fluke reliability leading the way with their solutions, and of course, the people at fluke reliability. All right. Now I'm gonna have all this information out on industrial talk.com Don't worry. And if you come to me and say, Scott, I can't find it. Well, you're lying because well, it's all out there because you need to attend it. Jeff hay is in the seat. Right? He is in the industrial talk hotseat. He is the CEO at rd AI Technologies. We're talking motion amplification. But how does that motion amplification? How does technology How does innovation really feed into the necessity for resiliency? That's what he brings to the table. That's what he drops. Right? Truth on this particular podcast. Enjoy Pay on the industrial talk podcast. Jeff, welcome to the industrial talk podcast absolute honor that you have found time in your busy schedule, because I know you're busy to talk to the listeners of the industrial talk podcast, how are you doing? Good, good. How are you, Scott, I'm well thank you very much. Now, before we get going, I want a little background on who you are, and where you're at, and all that good stuff so that we can level set for the listeners out there. And then we're gonna start talking a little bit about, you know, resiliency, business resiliency, what you bring to the table and how that impacts business. But before we go there, give us a little 411 on who Jeff is.

Jeff Hay 05:35

Yeah, sure. So I'm Jeff, hey, I'm the CEO of RTI technology. So we really are a company focused around computer vision for maintenance and reliability. So we developed a technology called motion amplification, that allows you to use a video camera to be able to measure vibration and use those use that tool on a an asset, such as a motor in the maintenance, reliability space, to be able to determine asset health,

Scott MacKenzie 06:02

before I forget, now, if I'm looking at that asset using your technology, and I mean, listeners, you got to go out to RTI Technologies and look at some of those videos because they're pretty doggone cool. I like it a lot. I look at it. I don't know why, but I do. I'm sort of it's like, looking at a lava lamp there. Jeff, you know, you just stare at it.

Jeff Hay 06:23

Yeah, you're like, is it? What's it doing? How could it be doing that? Right?

Scott MacKenzie 06:27

Anyway, but go out there, but in the world of the PPF curve, are you capturing if my asset is doing what your video is doing? Right? I just late to the game on that pf curve? And can you define pf curve, please, for us?

Jeff Hay 06:43

Yeah, so pf curve essentially tells you about a potential failure and the time at which that that potential failure can occur can occur. So essentially, it's kind of plotting the life of an asset, and in your risk with that asset over time. And as the assets life goes up, you know, continues, the chance of a failure goes up with with a fault being manifest in in the asset. And so, essentially, you know, with, with the technology, you you really want to try to maximize your Technologies in ways to, to be able to detect those faults as early as possible. And, and better yet, if you can detect those faults, before they even go into commission, you're sort of getting into, you know, before it even enters into the the PF part of the curve.

Scott MacKenzie 07:33

Yeah, and so, if you look at at a curve, and it's got a little slope too, and that's fine. The key is to be able to say, okay, but one can say that an asset, just by virtue of wear and tear is, is there's a lot of demands on it. And it's, it's, it's getting worked pretty hard, but you can with technology, be able to look at that asset, and be able to do to a certain extent, when you want to begin to perform proper maintenance on it, which is always a good thing. Right. And your technology allows that insights into that particular asset, is that correct? Yeah. So

Jeff Hay 08:10

there's, there's a, you know, there's sort of a host of things that you can detect, that are sort of, I would say bread and butter faults, like misalignment, soft, soft looseness, you know, sort of the big ones. And, you know, the, the key is trying to detect those as early as possible. So you have the most amount of preparedness, you know, for, for when you want to handle that fault, you know, and, you know, the best case scenario is, is that you have planned downtime that you can, that is upcoming that you're at very little risk really to, to leverage that downtime to be able to, to be able to repair that fall, if, for example, you don't catch it soon enough, you're kind of running the risk of a failure occurring before you're ready before your plan. And then it's catastrophic, and then you have collateral damage. And, you know, you can imagine the value, you know, of detecting the detecting fault earlier is is tremendous.

Scott MacKenzie 09:05

And there's really no reason why you can't I mean, the tools and that are out there the innovation that is out there, especially with your particular product, your solution is not difficult to operate, is it?

Jeff Hay 09:19

No, it's not difficult, you know, we, you know, we we always encourage people to be trained on on their, their technology, so the maximum maximize them to the fullest. But no, it's not difficult along with a lot of other Technologies that are out there with the proper training, you know, you know, anybody can really pick up these tools and, and really leverage them, you know, in in some form with our technology, for example, there is an element that's very similar to capture and video where it's sort of like you record a video and then you press a button and you're watching it amplified and you can see it move and you know, all the different pieces kind of dance around.

Scott MacKenzie 09:54

It's pretty damn cool. I'm telling you right now I like it. Now. You brought up a good point. Now when we start talking about business resiliency, and we talked about, especially pre virus, there was this, I don't know, a different view on how I'm approaching business, how I approach reliability, how I leverage technology and going forward. And and maybe I would have a two to five year, you know, strategic plan on when I wanted to play all this stuff COVID hits, two finger death punch, boom, hit you over the forehead. And now all of a sudden business, the conversation is, what what are we going to do? How do we create a business of resiliency? If unfortunately, something happens in the future? Now, let's talk a little bit about that. I'm all big into collaboration, innovation and education. And and now is the time a sense of speed and purpose. What I hear you say, Jeff, is that, first off, I have no Lance, I don't have all the answers, I got to interact with individuals like you that have an answer, have technology have the ability to educate? Can you sort of expand a little bit upon why that technology is important, specifically, when it's around business resiliency?

Jeff Hay 11:11

Yeah, sure. So, you know, the first part of that is having the technology in place, right, having the technology in place. So that in a situation, let's take the COVID example. You know, that happened pretty quick, things don't change like that, you know, that drastically.

Scott MacKenzie 11:28

Right? Fine. Tuesday, bad?

Jeff Hay 11:30

That's right. And so so, you know, we were aware of the situation now that you know, so it's a sort of a full full me wants scenario, where, you know, we know, we know, this can happen, so and so are the Technologies in place that that that's really, I think, a key question you have to ask yourself, if not, you know, well, what do I need to get do to get the Technologies in place, that and then so there's a second step to that, after that is, are the Technologies in place? And are is my workforce properly trained on those Technologies? Yes, if we have the Technologies in the building, when this happened, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference, if we're not properly trained on that. Now, there were some, you know, kind of things that happen a lot, you know, remote training and things like that, that, that I think people have started leveraging, and that's great. And I think that that's going to be another thing that we're going to probably adopt, you know, large scale, but having that training piece is very important. Because, you know, I it's not uncommon for, you know, a facility to have lots of Technologies that are going unused and gathering dust on the shelf, just because the workforce is not trained on it, when there's tremendous value, just really easy, low hanging fruit, to pick up those Technologies, and get people trained on them and get them moving with them.

Scott MacKenzie 12:45

That is, it's such a absolute, accurate, you know, analysis of those these tools. Like I said, pre virus, these tools, were probably sitting on the shelf and somebody's cubicle, the individual that was originally trained on moved on, and it just sort of sits there and, and the software is not updated, it's just a mess, and then come come to virus. Now everybody's realizing, hey, these are important, we need to figure them out, we need to at least deploy the people to get out there to do it, so that we can at least begin having the technology in place to be able to do what we need to do to create this business of resiliency. But I would imagine, Jeff, the challenge would be, we all know, we all know that there's going to be this next normal right now we're sort of right in the middle of it. And we see the sense of urgency, and we need to be resilient, or whatever we want to call it. But they're we're gonna get lazy, there's gonna be a point in time where we're gonna, and I see a challenge of sustaining that. Do you have that same insights? Or what do you think?

Jeff Hay 13:53

Yeah, no, I mean, I agree. I mean, I think that that we really, you know, it's, it's one of these scenarios where we talk about reliability, we talk about resiliency, you know, in a company that was a company that was not necessarily preparing for this, right, but had a proper maintenance and reliability program up and running, would have a much longer run rate going into this, you know, the building, you know, things are starting to open up, you know, facilities have have the things in place, but there was a period of two to three months. That was pretty serious for for not letting visitors in and not allowing people to visit and so so the question was, you know, were you prepared for that, and if you had a normal maintenance and reliability program, that was up to speed that was current, your your workforce was was was trained, you could probably get away with a much longer period of time when you were under that sort of lockdown. You know, and that's the sort of thing that I think people need to take away from this in the sense that just getting things up and running and properly in place with your maintenance and your reliability programs. Allow, you know, just preparedness for any sort of event happening.

Scott MacKenzie 15:05

I, you know, we all understand that there's the challenge of COVID. Anyway, I got that side of the sword. But then there's this other side of the sword which created the opportunity and, and people are having companies people are having more meaningful conversations and are focused on what is important. And maintenance and and having a reliability program, mature or at least begin that process is a conversation that people are having today. Beforehand, they replied guy, I've been there, done that. And then all of a sudden, this happens. And then they realize, ouch. If I was a little less stubborn, and less reactive and whatever, less distracted, I would have been a little bit better off today, because I would have had a more of a mature reliability. So I think that that is a really, really, I guess, a good thing that happened as a result of

Jeff Hay 16:05

silver silver, there's always silver linings, right. Take them no matter what.

Scott MacKenzie 16:09

Yeah, exactly. But you know, that there's going to be this there always going to be roadblocks. And and I just reiterate the necessity to innovate the the necessity to use technology to its fullest, like you, you've so aptly put the problem I deal with and help us understand, Jeff, is that you are and you and your team at RTI are just absolutely mad crazy on doing the best, and constantly changing and pushing the envelope me not the sharpest tool in the shed, I'm still having a hard time evaluating the prior versions helped me understand how I can get up to speed and what strategies do I need to in my head? To do this?

Jeff Hay 16:58

Yeah, I mean, that's it. And I think there's it's a timely question, because I think even that that's evolving, so it's true, we, you know, we, as a company, have a mindset that we're constantly innovating, you know, we, we were releasing new features and new capability and essentially, because our tools is cutting edge anyway, in the sense of using a camera as a as a sensor, it's these are pretty sometimes our updates are pretty monumental in in kind of the, the change in the way people use our tool. And we do you know, even us, you know, we struggle with making sure that our customer base and, you know, the the market is, is educated on that, you know what one of the things that I will say, you know, in in terms of the timeliness of, of everything that's going on, is we've been really engaging community online and providing a lot of sort of educational awareness and educational webinars and that sort of thing. And in our engagement has been really, really positive on that. So we we as a company, make it a point to try to make sure that awareness and education is on our tool is in the forefront. So those sort of tools, and those things are available on a rolling basis so that you can sort of jump in in a webinar and see see what the see what the latest is because the product today that that we offer is not the same product that it was a year ago. And so there's,

Scott MacKenzie 18:21

that's amazing. That is amazing to me, because it said it does. And I guarantee you guys are sitting there going, I didn't know, we could do that too. We can refine that makes it clearer, that makes the the analysis of data information better. I think that's pretty cool.

Jeff Hay 18:39

Yeah, we really try to you know, we really, we really tried to work on this education piece but and then to the other piece about it is I think this industry, you know, there used to technology, so we're fortunate that they they adopted like technology, but but our tool is a little bit different in that it's not to traditional plots and graphs that vibration analysts are used to looking at. So we really, we have a challenge there of just getting people's mindset around, hey, now you know, it's a video and how do I leverage a video and integrate that with my reliability program, to be able to, you know, utilize it maximized to its fullest and not use the tool with preconceived notions of a traditional sort of vibration tool. So that's, that's something we really really work on

Scott MacKenzie 19:30

you that's an interesting because vibration analysis, the the traditional vibration analysis have been around since the beginning of time, almost, you know, and so it's a very mature industry and how they look at vibration and they're constantly refining that as well. And here comes RTI and you're saying, We've got this video that that allows or this technology that allows you to actually, for me, layman person, I don't have to look at the little squiggly lines. I can actually see See it? Do you do you align your technology with the sort of the traditional vibration? You know, thinking out there,

Jeff Hay 20:08

we do, we, we make sure we cast it in that perspective. So that that people understand what it is we're trying to do with it, but but extend it, you know, we can, you know, with our tool, you can measure, you can draw boxes in the video, and it will make a virtual sensor there that will provide you with the squiggly lines, the time waveform, and that's just a small piece of it, you know, and that's sort of connected with that traditional methodology, but, but we can extend that further, like, give a colorized image of the vibration, you know, give a video of the vibration and give these other tools that allow you to tune in, because, you know, if you think about our technology, most people are used to using maybe a multi channel analyzer, maybe it has three channels on it, right? This three, whereas we have, you know, two, two and a half million pixels that are each a sensor, so now you have, it's like, you have two and a half million vibration data points. And so you have to think about that you can't look at each one, you know, you have to do a lot of data reduction, you know, and so we, we have tools that that, that help with that to try to, you know, you've got to it's, you know, one of the things I like to call it fulfilled vibration, you're doing vibration over an entire field of view. And so, it's not quite as simple as just putting your sensor on, you put your sensor on something and saying, Okay, this is, you know, I'm just gonna get this one data point, you know, you have all these data points that you can gather. And, and so you really have to think about it differently.

Scott MacKenzie 21:43

You do, and I mean, and that's an education in itself. Because Forever, forever, forever, we looked at vibration a certain way. And now all of a sudden, you come in and say, you can look at it this way too. And it is meaningful, and it is tactical, and it is a way of being able to extend the life of that asset, if you know how to do it. And now if you know how to use the tool correctly, I just think it's, it's, it's cool. Now, last question, what do you see going, Jeff? I mean, I mean, what do you guys, I mean, already, I'm, I'm impressed. And I see the stuff, the the product that you're producing out there? What do you see it going? What's the next sort of horizon on all this?

Jeff Hay 22:26

You know, one thing I'll say about where we are, it's really exciting to be in the camera space right now. You know, I mean, you've got cameras that, you know, do anything from give, you know, they'll send me a ticket, you know, a fee, every time I cross a bridge, you know, automatically to my doorstep, you know, and then and then, you know, they'll drive cars, you know, now, they, you know, they analyze machinery vibration. So, you know, that, it's really exciting to be able to leverage a technology like that moving forward. You know, one of the things that I think that that our cameras are known for, you know, sort of ubiquitous, our security cameras, where they're everywhere, you know, you can measure anything, and everywhere, we just, we just launched a continuous monitoring product that is fully networkable. You know, you can put as many cameras on a network as, as you want. And, you know, start covering and monitoring 24 seven and get email notifications. So, you know, camera technology can really be leveraged this way, because we already do it in other industries. You can never escape. Now, all of a sudden, you can snap

Scott MacKenzie 23:30

like, I got this little 4k camera up here, but it's like, there it is,

Jeff Hay 23:34

like, pretty powerful device.

Scott MacKenzie 23:36

Yes, pretty sophisticated. A lot of stuff inside we take for granted. But there's a lot of sophistication and technology in there. All right. Are you active out there on LinkedIn there?

Jeff Hay 23:45

Yeah, I'm on LinkedIn. You can look me up. Jeff. Hey. And then we're the company's very active rd Technologies. We have a motion amplification groups you can join. And then we have a YouTube page that has, you know, pop some popcorn, pull up a chair and you can you can watch endless motion amplification videos. It is

Scott MacKenzie 24:04

telling you it's like a lava lamp and vibration. I'm going to stare at it or just a fun, it's just the trick there, man. It's just like, you just can't get enough of that. Alright, listen, listeners. That is Jeff Hey RDI What does that stand for?

Jeff Hay 24:19

Well, it's really just already I nowadays but research development, innovation is what it originally was, but it's become, you know, just already I

Scott MacKenzie 24:27

think, thank goodness, because I thought that would be a long domain. Yeah,

Jeff Hay 24:31

it would be probably available but you

Scott MacKenzie 24:34

know, guarantee is available. I guarantee it. Alright, RDI Technologies is the company. Jeff. He is the CEO of that fine. Team. I'm telling you, man, it's great stuff you need to go out to their website need to go out to their YouTube channel. Look at this stuff because it's fantastic. We were talking a little bit about resiliency. They are a company that is truly collaborative, innovative, and definitely love the education side. To that, and they're doing it with a sense of speed and purpose. All right, Jeff, you were wonderful. Absolutely. Wonderful. Thank you very much for joining the industrial talk podcast. You have a wonderful day my friend into Thanks, Scott. Always a pleasure. All right, you listeners, we're gonna wrap it up on the other side, all the contact information, and maybe I'll just sort of take one of those videos and slap it out on his podcast just because it's cool. Cool stuff. All right. Stay tuned.

Jeff Hay 25:24

You're listening to the industrial talk Podcast Network.

Scott MacKenzie 25:34

All right, Jeff, a rock star. You heard it. You heard it from the man himself. RTI Technologies is the company we're talking innovation. We're talking resiliency, we're talking about collaboration, innovation, education, speed, purpose, tenacity. Got it. Bring your A game, we need you now more than ever. pencil and paper computer, whatever you want. Get it on your calendar ASAP. We're talking about accelerate, right? accelerate, November 17. through Thursday, November 19. featuring some of the best within reliability, innovation. Big, big, big thinkers in that world, right. Don't miss out, go out to buy, you could go to industrial talk.com there's a link out there, fluke reliabilities bringing out this Xcelerate20 All right, I've challenged you to be bold, be brave, dare greatly hang out with people who are bold, brave and daring greatly. Your world is going to change the way you look at the world is going to change. Another great accelerate interview right around the corner. Thank you very much for joining me

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