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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.
Since 1976, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) has provided engineering solutions that deliver lasting results for private industry, public entities, government organizations and the U.S. military.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Limuel Sagadraca in Episode 35 of this series.
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.
In 1999 I left a 19-year career at Eastman Kodak to start my own Manufacturing Reliability Consulting Company. Looking back 23 years I really had no idea what I was getting into, but I was confident that I had something to offer companies that other consultants didn’t.
[Read more…]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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Read more…]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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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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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;
