on the team leaders to help to find this for us. Summarize the opportunities that have been found. So periodically, probably a couple of times a day, we’ll say – Okay, hey Team One, what are you finding? What are the opportunities? And so we’ll need someone who will have summarized those and can speak to those for that particular team. Provide the closing summary presentation. So we will be pulling together the presentations or close out. And there will be at least one, if not more, people shadowing me as I do that. But we’ll need the content opening things like – okay. What is the opportunity? What’s the value of the opportunity? Maybe you want to put a photograph of the opportunity. I encourage that if the visual helps, and any other pieces. You will be the expert on those particular opportunities. We might present those opportunities to management at a closeout session. Closeout sessions are not long. They’re anywhere, maybe 30 to 45 minutes. You can make them longer if you like. It’s pretty quick. Just say – here’s the opportunity. This is the value we put on it. This is the team. So we expect the team leader to either do the presentation or nominate someone within the group to do the presentation. Interviewee: I think, regarding that, I think Bert, if you have a Volvo template for PowerPoint slides, or maybe a plant specific template for PowerPoint slides, maybe we could distribute that in advance to team leads, so that they use the same template and the same formatting here, yes, for preparing those presentations. Interviewee: Okay. Interviewer: Yeah. That would be good. That would be real good. And I’m finding more and more companies don’t like flash drives. I typically hand out flash drives that have all the detailed cost information, and the things we need to do, and calculations, and then ask the people put their completed opportunities on the flash drive and hand it back. In a couple of places I’ve worked, they use SharePoint instead, and a number of places don’t allow flash drives. So whatever means we can find to be able to pass information back and forth, even if it’s email, we can do that.
be taken care of. And we separated the organization into real estate and production. So, therefore, like Chad Porter – he’s part of our real estate group, handling real estate related assets. So when it comes to that kind of layout, we all were like facility engineers and facility managers before. Now, they’ve kind of separated us into two areas of expertise to really focus the funding of those things separately. So real estate is given capital to do certain investments related to real estate every year. So it’s a good partnership, absolutely. But we definitely have the facility background as well. Interviewer: Well, good. Okay. That’s good clarity too. Interviewee: Okay. I hope I cleared that up for you. Interviewer: Yeah. That was good. Thanks. Now, Observing the Facility – We’ve been through this. I’ll go through it quickly again. Most important, the first day really is the most important, in my mind. The most important day. I’ve done probably more than 40 of these. Most often, that’s when the majority of opportunities are identified. We didn’t put any meat on the bones, but that first day is when we really get a pretty decent list of opportunities. And eyes and ears are the tools that are very useful. It’s walking around and saying – why is that on? I can hear something running. What is it? And when you say that, you’ll hear them scratch it and say that. I’m going to skip that one. Typical Treasure Hunt lighting. Lighting is always an opportunity. Maybe it’s not always the most exciting, but it can be an opportunity. Things like, can we re-lamp with more efficient lamps? Can we turn lights off that are on? Shut down procedures? And this is a hard one – unnecessary lighting. Here’s been my experience. It’s hard to take lights away. I’ve been in facilities where they and they have a tremendous amount of light and we might say – gee, you know, you could probably remove 20 percent of those. But there’s reluctance on the part of the workers to say – hey. You’re taking light away from me. Just an anecdote. Metro fit lighting, we know now, and LEDs really nearly reached maturity. So they’re a pretty nice solution for lighting. That said, this plant
Interviewer: Okay, good. Thanks, Bert. We’ve got time, so we’ll be all right. A few resources, and we have them where they’ll bring paper copies, or Excel sheets and calculators. We’ve got calculators for about five different types of things. You know when we talked about heating and cooling, compressed air, electricity, lighting, pumping, fans, and a few other things. And the good thing about the way we’ve structured these “New Opportunity Sheets” is, calculators are a separate spread sheet. So if you have a favorite sheet that you like to use from a vendor, or something you’ve developed internally that does calculation, that’s fine. We can just take the information and put it on the overall Opportunity Sheet. I have found that to be an easier method. And we have handouts. I may have copies in here. If I don’t, I will be sure to bring them with us. And, of course, the diagnostic equipment. The DOE has a suitcase of the equipment we can bring with us. I’ll bet you probably have equipment at the plant as well, things like, pressure transducers, data loggers, infrared cameras, ultrasonic leak detectors, etc. If there’s anything specific that a plant wants that we know the DOE has, let’s make sure we get that request at this session so we can bring that equipment. I think they’ll actually ship it to you. Interviewee: [inaudible] I say today [inaudible]. Interviewer: Any comments on the equipment section? Interviewee: No, no. I think, absolutely. What we’ll do is, what are the minimum basic equipment we generally use? So, anyway, we’ll ship those. But, you’re right. If you place a specific request from the NRV or Macungie Plant, we can actually add those equipment too. I believe, I think I have shared a list of equipment with you, Bert, in the past, but I will redo that. I will resend you a list of the equipment we have at Warner, yeah. Interviewee: Okay. Interviewee: Yeah. We have two [crosstalk] elected/elective middle loggers/metal loggers/augers but not a pressure transducer to log anything with.
Interviewer: Okay. We could do that. Interviewee: We have a little handheld and an infrared ohmmeter, but not like a scanner. Interviewer: Oh, okay. So it would be good to bring that, the Fleur infrared, if we’ve got it, and pressure transducers I know you have, Sachin. Interviewee: Yes. And that’s the Macungie Plant, right? Interviewee: Yes. Interviewee: Okay. Interviewer: Okay. Interviewee: Danny, for you, you’re taking north, right? Interviewee: Yes, we could. Interviewer: Okay. I can hear you shaking your head. Calculators − I really talked about already, and we will review them when we’re at the plant the first morning, or maybe a little bit later in the day. Calculators – we talked about their estimate of savings potential from particularly the opportunities, as I mentioned. There’s some common opportunities that we can also have calculators for – insulation, lighting replacement. There’s others. These are not necessarily on DOE/VLE. Carrier has a good calculator for calculating building heat loss. We’ve got – but I can’t remember the name now – a few of them for doing insulation calculations, etcetera. And you may have some of your own that you like to use. And, hey, maybe we can steal them from you. And we’d just need to make sure we’d get all of that info back on the Opportunity Sheet with a good description. And I’m going to harp on that enough that you’ll probably be sick of hearing it. This one is an example of the opportunity calculator – pretty simple. It’s really based on operational time. So how many hours per year is whatever we’re looking at operating currently. How many hours a year it may be operating in the future? It might be the same.
Interviewee: Oh, no. Unfortunately, no. Maybe a monthly phone call, we can talk about it. Yes. Basically, I’m just going to attend the Macungie Treasure Hunt. Interviewee: Okay. All right. Interviewee: Actually, I would like to, but maybe next year. Interviewee: All right. Interviewer: Okay. Anything else? Interviewee: Walt, is available at any time, right, if you come with any question? Interviewer: Yes. Oh, sure. Just send me an email or give me a call, and we’ll do our best to answer it. Interviewee: Okay. Interviewee: And then, Walt, would you be available for a separate meeting with Chad at NRV to make sure things aren’t going off the track in a few months there? Interviewer: Yeah. No problem. I just want to make sure we get it on the calendar, and we can do that. I assume you’re talking about ahead of time, right? Yes, exactly. Yeah, no problem. Just send me a note and suggest a time, and we can make it work. Interviewee: All right. Interviewer: Okay. Good. Interviewee: All right. Very good. Interviewer: Okay. Well, thanks, everyone. We’ll see many of you, if not all of you, in a couple of weeks. Interviewee: Yeah. Thank you very much. Interviewee: Great. Interviewee: Thank you. Bye. Interviewer: Have a good…