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Author of RCM Blitz® articles and host of The Leadership Connection podcast. This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

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TLC 036 Leadership Connection Interview with Bambi Hoyt

TLC 036 Leadership Connection Interview with Bambi Hoyt

Leadership Connection Interview with Bambi Hoyt

In this episode, Vice President Life Cycle Engineering, Bambi Hoyt joins guest host Tara Holwegner in a discussion about personal triumphs and failures that made them the leaders they are today.
In Bambi’s 14 years with LCE, she has seen it all – leading key growth initiatives, including managing and executing IT and technical programs for the U.S. Navy, DISA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and Veterans Affairs customers. Her career spans 20 years of experience in the DoD, Federal, pharmaceutical and consumer goods industries.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Professional Communications from Clemson University.

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TLC 034 Leadership Connection Interview with Howard Penrose

TLC 034 Leadership Connection Interview with Howard Penrose

Leadership Connection Interview with Howard Penrose

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Howard Penrose in Episode 34 of this series.

Mr. Howard Penrose is President of MotorDoc LLC, a Veteran Owned Small Business, 2017-18 Chair of the Society for Maintenance Professionals (SMRP). Performing reliability and maintenance consulting, program development, industrial assessments, motor management consulting, machine forensics, motor diagnostics training, technical web development, and technical/business publishing. Specialties include motor diagnostics, training, electrical insulation systems, hybrid vehicle machine development, wind turbine forensics, industrial and commercial applications.

 

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TLC 032 Leadership Connection Interview with John Reeve

TLC 032 Leadership Connection Interview with John Reeve

Leadership Connection Interview with John Reeve

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader John Reeve in Episode 32 of this series.

Mr. John Reeve is a CMMS Champion. With 21,000 followers on LinkedIn, he regularly shares knowledge on many topics, especially in asset management. Being the 2nd consultant hired by the company that invented Maximo, he spent the first 10 years consulting in project management consulting followed by 20 years on asset management with emphasis on Maximo software. During this time, he was issued a US Patent for maintenance scheduling “order of fire”, CR/CMML qualification from ReliabilityWeb, and, became the author of two books.

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TLC 031 Leadership Connection Interview with Nancy Regan

TLC 031 Leadership Connection Interview with Nancy Regan

Leadership Connection Interview with Nancy Regan

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Nancy Regan in Episode 31 of this series.

Nancy Regan has had a love affair (professionally speaking) with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for the last 2 decades. She believes that it is one of the most majestic asset management processes on the planet. She’s been at it for 20 years now and there’s nothing she would rather do.

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TLC 030 Leadership Connection Interview with Andy Page

TLC 030 Leadership Connection Interview with Andy Page

Leadership Connection Interview with Andy Page

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Andy Page in Episode 30 of this series.

Andy Page has more than 28 years of experience in the fields of maintenance and reliability, with deep asset management experience attained through designing, teaching, and improving the reliability of manufacturing and processing plants throughout the United States and Europe.

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TLC 029 Leadership Connection Interview with Bob Latino

TLC 029 Leadership Connection Interview with Bob Latino

Leadership Connection Interview with Bob Latino

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Bob Latino in Episode 29 of this series.

Mr. Latino is an internationally recognized author, trainer, software developer, lecturer and practitioner of best practices in the field of Reliability Engineering and specifically in Root Cause Analysis & Investigation Management. When an expensive machine breaks down, most companies just fix it without understanding why it broke. Bob shows companies how to reveal Root Causes of complex incidents so they can save millions of dollars over time.

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Facing The Reality of Layoffs

Facing The Reality of Layoffs

Keeping it honest, layoffs suck.

They suck for the targeted employees and they suck for their immediate supervision and management.

In 1981 I was hired by our area’s largest employer at the time as an incoming apprentice. The day I was hired my soon to be wife and I celebrated she as a schoolteacher and I now had lifelong employment.  We could now get married, buy a home, and start a family. In three years it took for me to complete my apprenticeship and for her to complete her master’s in education, we did just that.  Life for this young family couldn’t have been better.

And then the layoffs started. 

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When Rules are Made to be Broken!

When Rules are Made to be Broken!

With twenty plus years of working with companies around the world, I’ve been witness to some incredible improvements. From a small company that was still working with paper work orders to large companies who struggled to make sense of their CMMS, the common thread for those who realized success was the discipline to implement and perform their RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) tasks.

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On the Job Fatalities There is No Excuse

On the Job Fatalities There is No Excuse

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics data released in December of 2020, 5,333 Americans died on the job in 2019. While 40% of these deaths were cause by transportation incidents and 15% were attributed to workplace violence, nearly 2400 on the job deaths were a direct result of one of the following causes;

·        Falls, trips or slips

·        Contact with objects or equipment

·        Exposure to harmful substances or environment

·        Fire or explosion

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Who Should You Align With?

Who Should You Align With?

With over twenty years in the Manufacturing Reliability Consulting business, I have been approached at least a dozen times to align or partner with other companies who sell services and or equipment that don’t compete with the services I provide. While our community consists of thousands of individual companies around the globe, if you’ve worked in our world for more than five years and attended two to three of the major conferences each year, you’ll notice many of the same faces but often wearing a different shirt.

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Personal Expectations

Personal Expectations

A friend I have been mentoring for quite some time now asked me recently if I had a set of personal expectations I hold myself to. As part of our conversation, I quickly came up with 4 or 5 things and then later on sat down to list out the expectations I try to live by.

I think my parents set the groundwork for what I would consider my list of personal expectations. My Mom and Dad had sound values and I think it’s those values that influence our expectations. With that said, here is my list;

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TLC 028 Leadership Connection Interview with Drew Troyer

TLC 028 Leadership Connection Interview with Drew Troyer

Leadership Connection Interview with Drew Troyer

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Drew Troyer in Episode 28 of this series.

Drew brings nearly 30 years experience and thought leadership in the fields of manufacturing reliability engineering and physical asset management. He believes that most organizations in the physical asset-intensive industries have a tremendous opportunity to improve the uptime, profitability, safety and environmental performance of their plants and physical assets with a dedicated focus on reliability-driven practices.

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