
Leading Teams
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Carl and Fred discussing the essence of team leadership. Reliability engineers need to add effective team leadership to their core set of skills.
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Carl and Fred discussing the essence of team leadership. Reliability engineers need to add effective team leadership to their core set of skills.
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Marc Zimmerman in Episode 5 of this series. Marc specializes in the oversight and management of field operations, managing budgets and schedules on both renovations and new construction on public school projects. His broad background and experience across the different trades has provided him with the knowledge and understanding of all the trade interactions and needs, which proves valuable for prioritizing and scheduling work as the Sr. Field Leader at CAMPUS Construction Management Group, Inc.

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we have Dan Anderson, Manager at Life Cycle Engineering and member of the SMRP Board of Directors, on the show! Ryan and Dan discuss change management practices, and how organizations can shift their culture to proactive maintenance. Listen today!
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A danger of using slide decks for technical design reviews is loss of important technical information. In order to summarize something in a slide or slide deck, the presenter thins-out information without its raw data and divorces it from the plots, graphs, and other technical analyses.
Slide decks are useful to the presenter to pull together a meeting. Slide decks are terrible for the reviewers who need to review technical information and make decisions from it.
In this episode, I review some alternatives:
by Robert Kalwarowsky Leave a Comment

Over the past decade, facility equipment reliability has been elevated from an often vague ideal to a mission-critical goal with benefits that outweigh both cost and complexity. As a result, well-run organizations now consider reliability to be an important element of their strategic and tactical plans and initiatives. This new reality impacts nearly every function, from procurement to maintenance, repair, and operations inventory management.
Over the same period, savvy plant management has also embraced the philosophy that maximum reliability requires more than well-functioning equipment. What other correlated activities must organizations also engage in?
In this week’s episode of Maintenance Disrupted, Blair Fraser welcomes Dan Moss, VP Operations at Performance Consulting Associates otherwise known as PCA to talk about the Journey to Reliability: The Roadmap for Success.
You can connect with PCA here:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pcaconsulting/
Email Dan here: moss@pcaconsulting.com
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Welcome Jeff O’brien who is the cofounder of Zoidii CMMS
Jeff has worked with CMMS in manufacturing and consultancy for years and has currently launched their own application.
In this episode we covered:

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we’ll be reviewing questions submitted by members in our Maintenance Community Slack group and hearing insight from one of our Maintenance Experts in Residence, the Reliability Sherpa himself — Ramesh Gulati. Listen today!
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Carl and Fred discussing what it means to be a leader, and how the principles of leadership go beyond the traditional roles of management.
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to focus on ‘effort’ instead of ‘outcomes.’ We often think we focus on outcomes only … but how many people ‘get by’ simply by being ‘seen’ around the office, looking busy when there, and otherwise being friendly to everyone? They always volunteer to be part of a team, do some of the ‘less glamorous’ tasks, and otherwise be ‘part of something.’ But is this person actually valuable? (… harsh as the question sounds).
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The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Shon Isenhour in Episode 4 of this series. Shon specializes in Adult Learning, Leadership, Asset Management and Reliability Engineering and has lead improvement initiatives for industries such as pharmaceuticals, metals, petrochemical, automotive, paper, and power generation, among others and is currently a Partner at Eruditio, LLC.

In this week’s episode of The Maintenance Community Pod, we are excited to have Cathy Ma, Director of User Acquisition at Thomas, on the show! Cathy shares with us how Thomas mobilized over 6,000 manufacturers in North America to speed up PPE distribution and production. She also shares her thoughts on digital transformation and diversity in the industry. Listen today!
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Episode 69:
I was privileged to be a guest on the Pick-Place Podcast with Chris Denney (Worthington Assembly) and Melissa Hough (CircuitHub). This is the second of a two-part interview.
In this episode we are joined by Mike Konrad to chat about board cleaning. Mike founded Aqueous Technologies in 1992 in response to the Montreal Protocol and the resulting international treaty banning most popular cleaning/defluxing solvents. Their board cleaning equipment assists manufacturers with increasing product reliability while saving both water and energy, reducing the industry’s environmental impact.
In addition to being the President of Aqueous Technologies, he is also a fellow podcaster and runs the Reliability Matters Podcast, which discusses reliability of circuit assemblies, reliability “best practices” and success stories.
In the first part of this conversation we delve into the history of board cleaning, the electronics the industry’s transition to primarily using no-clean flux, and why more and more companies are reintroducing board cleaning back into their assembly process.
This episode gets us into the nitty gritty details of how to implement a proper circuit board cleaning process.
Chris Denney may be reached here:
cdenney@worthingtonassembly.com
Melissa Hough may be reached here:
melissa@circuithub.com
Mike Konrad may be reached here:
konrad@aqueoustech.com
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Recent news highlights an accident involving a product with tragic results. This podcast explores this as cautionary tale and example outside of our own design house. The goal is to shift our perspectives to let us gain a better understanding of risk-based decisions.
We also talk about allowing ourselves room to change our minds about risk acceptability when we learn new information, both during the design process and from the field.
by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Only some discussions about reliability go well. Some conversations make it obvious reliability is an afterthought or considered a barrier to creating and shipping products. Other conversations seem to support reliability work, yet really are little more than lip service. Then, there are meaningful conversations that improve the reliability culture within the organization. [Read more…]
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In this weeks episode we welcome Leah Friberg and discuss a wide range of topics. Leah has her fingers on the pulse of our industry and we cover some great topics. We discuss how to get the most out of our coaches/consultants, how to navigate a parts shortage, how to keep the workforce engaged, and so much more.
You can connect with Leah here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahmfriberg/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Maintenance Disrupted. If you’d like to discuss advertising, please email us at maintenancedisrupted@gmail.com
Check out our website at www.maintenancedisrupted.com and sign up for the weekly disruption newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow maintenance disrupted on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Maintenance Disrupted on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancedisrupted
Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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