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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 027 Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

TLC 027 Leadership Connection Interview with  Thomas Boehm

Leadership Connection Interview with Thomas Boehm

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Thomas Boehm in Episode 27 of this series. Thom H. Boehm is a knitting machine technician at Stanfield’s Ltd., a textile mill in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has worked there for the last 20 years, and before that was an English teacher in Japan.  At Stanfield’s, although down in old textile lingo as a knitter/fixer, he does whatever needs to be done to keep the room functioning as well as possible, and this includes repairing and maintaining a host of different styles of circular knitting machines.

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The Keys To Successful RCM Implementation

The Keys To Successful RCM Implementation

If you have attended any Maintenance and Reliability conference in the last several years, chances are you have seen a presentation on the struggles of RCM implementation. Most present that over 70% of companies who attempt to get started with Reliability Centered Maintenance fail to implement the recommended mitigating tasks identified in their analysis.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

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TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

TLC 026 Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

Leadership Connection Interview with Suzane Greeman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Suzane Greeman in Episode 26 of this series. Suzane Greeman is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions, a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a senior asset management consultant and instructor in North America working with clients who manage assets in excess of $75 Billion. She has over 23 years of experience across several asset management disciplines and has implemented asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment, airport, and maritime transportation assets.

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TLC 025 Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

TLC 025 Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

Leadership Connection Interview with Shami Mudunkotuwa

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Shami Mudunkotuwa in Episode 25 of this series. Shami is is a product of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka and a Chartered Engineer currently working for Ceylon Electricity Board.

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The 15 things your new “Smart Machine” won’t tell you.

The 15 things your new “Smart Machine” won’t tell you.

The 15 things your new “Smart Machine” won’t tell you.

1.     It won’t tell you that someone failed to lubricate it

2.     It won’t tell you that they put the wrong type in

3.     It won’t tell you if they under filled it or overfilled it

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

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TLC 024 Leadership Connection Interview with George Mahoney

TLC 024 Leadership Connection Interview with George Mahoney

Leadership Connection Interview with George Mahoney

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader George Mahoney  in Episode 24 of this series. George Mahoney is currently acting as the Program Manager and Process Optimization Lead for the Source to Settle Organization at Merck.

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TLC 023 Leadership Connection Interview with Jason Tranter

TLC 023 Leadership Connection Interview with Jason Tranter

Leadership Connection Interview with Jason Tranter

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews CEO Jason Tranter in Episode 23 of this series. Jason Tranter is the founder and CEO of Mobius Institute.

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Allowing Wrong To Become Normal

Allowing Wrong To Become Normal

I’ve seen it twice this year and it concerns me. In twenty years of working with companies to improve manufacturing reliability I would like to believe that those of us who care are leaving a mark. It’s the days I’m about to describe that make you wonder.

I created RCM Blitz™ over twenty years ago as a tool that would help companies identify a complete maintenance strategy to improve and achieve the inherent designed reliability of their critical assets. Prior to entering the world of consulting, I had completed and implemented several RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) analyses on critical assets at Eastman Kodak company. With each analysis we completed, I gained knowledge and confidence that the process when adhered to and implemented, could improve the reliability of even our worst assets. In the same two years of proving the process I also learned something very important.

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TLC 022 Leadership Connection Interview with Denise Reed

TLC 022 Leadership Connection Interview with Denise Reed

Leadership Connection Interview with Denise Reed

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews Global Chief Diversity Officer Denise Reed Lamoreaux in Episode 22 of this series. Denise has been involved in diversity and learning-related endeavors for 30 + years.  Her career has encompassed Secondary Education, Professional Leadership Coaching, Leadership, and Instructing at both the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and Monroe Community College’s Corporate College program.

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TLC 021 Leadership Connection Interview with Rendela Wenzel

TLC 021 Leadership Connection Interview with Rendela Wenzel

Leadership Connection Interview Rendela Wenzel

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Rendela Wenzel in Episode 21 of this series. Highly accomplished and motivated Reliability, Maintenance, Process, and Project Professional with years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and Food and Beverage Operations. Her experience includes API Pharmaceutical/ Biotech Manufacturing which includes high-risk Mechanical Integrity processes, Corporate Global Reliability Ownership and Oversight, Engine and component machining, casting, and assembly manufacturing.

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Should We Call it Precision Maintenance?

Should We Call it Precision Maintenance?

I got a call last week from a friend I used to work with who called just to catch up on what I had going on in life. After a few minutes of conversation on what each of us had going on he asked me what I thought of the phrase “Precision Maintenance.”

I must admit, I was a bit confused by the question. I told him I think a lack of precision maintenance might me the leading cause of failure for nearly every company in the world. I don’t think we spend nearly enough time training and certifying tradespeople in precision maintenance techniques and that the reduction in skilled trades apprentice programs has made the problem worse.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

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TLC 020 Leadership Connection Interview with George Galvin

TLC 020 Leadership Connection Interview with George Galvin

Leadership Connection Interview George Galvin

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader George Galvin in Episode 20 of this series. George is a chemical engineer that spent the first half of his career the commodity chemical manufacturing and technology environments. Development is his core value, and he builds teams that learn, improve, and deliver.

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TLC 019 Leadership Connection Interview with Michelle Henley

TLC 019 Leadership Connection Interview with Michelle Henley

Leadership Connection Interview Michelle Henley

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interview’s reliability leader Michelle Henley in Episode 19 of this series. Michelle Henley is President of TMG Frontline Solutions where she has spent the past 20 years helping hundreds of organizations navigate the difficult waters of organizational change using a game-based simulation.  Her enthusiastic facilitation style along with the innovative workshop design bring the workforce (even the most skeptical among them) energetically onboard with their site’s reliability improvement efforts.

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TLC 018 Leadership Connection Interview with Rob Kalwarowsky

TLC 018 Leadership Connection Interview with Rob Kalwarowsky

Leadership Connection Interview Rob Kalwarowsky

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Robert Kalwarowsky in Episode 18 of this series. Robert started Rob’s Reliability Project (now Maintenance Disrupted) in 2018 and currently produces leadership & mental health content for the industrial community. Rob has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil and gas, and consulting industries.

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TLC 017 Leadership Connection Interview with William Bower

TLC 017 Leadership Connection Interview with William Bower

Leadership Connection Interview William Bower

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, Interview’s reliability leader Will Bower in Episode 17 of this series. Will is the Director of Services with Maintain CM based in the United Kingdom. Will strives to help engineering mangers achieve reliability excellence through every channel that he can.

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