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A podcast for those with new ideas in maintenance. Each week, Ryan Chan meets with a guest who has had an idea for how to shake things up in the maintenance and reliability industry. Sometimes the idea failed, sometimes it made their businesses more successful, and other times their idea revolutionized entire industries.
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we discuss electrical current analysis technology with the President of MotorDoc. We explore, “What types of equipment can benefit from electrical current analysis? What should we look for? When is electrical current analysis good and when is it not great to use it?” Lesson now to find out these answers and more!
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we discuss effective maintenance planning and scheduling with Jeff Shiver. Only about 10% of planner schedulers are utilized effectively. Jeff Shiver shares with us how to interview, train and measure success for maintenance planners to make sure your business is in that 10%.
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from Bob Latino, who shares his best practices on root cause analysis. Bob is the CEO of Reliability Center, Inc. and 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. Robert J. Latino has been facilitating RCA & FMEA analyses with his clientele around the world for over 35 years and has taught over 10,000 students in the PROACT® RCA Methodology.
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from Steven Dobie, a reliability engineer from Teck Resources who has worked in mining for the last six years across Canada. Steven discusses how understanding failure modes has been critical to his work as a reliability engineer.
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from Ricky Smith, CMRP.
Ricky Smith has a wealth of knowledge and years of experience in the maintenance and reliability industry and we were so thrilled to have him join us on our podcast. Ricky Smith started his maintenance journey in the US army, where he wanted to go to school to become a heavy equipment mechanic. He went on to work at a refinery and then Alumex as a technician and then as a maintenance engineer. He’s held a wide range of roles from maintenance supervisor, to maintenance manager, to maintenance company commander while in Iraq. Currently, Ricky Smith is a Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices Advisor at World Class Maintenance, where he is the Vice President.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from James Kovacevic, Principal Instructor at Eruditio, joining our podcast all the way from Ontario, Canada. James is principal instructor at Eruditio an adult education firm based in Charleston, South Carolina focused on applying core skills associated with Asset Management, Lean Six Sigma, and organizational change leadership. We discuss James’ journey from electrician, to maintenance planner and manager, reliability engineer, then global reliability consultant.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from Erik Hupjé, founder of RoadtoReliability.com, joining our podcast all the way from Brisbane, Australia. Together we discuss the do’s and dont’s of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
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We decided to shake things up a bit this week on Masterminds in Maintenance by hosting a live Q&A session with 4 experts in the maintenance and reliability space!
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Asset Management guru, Suzane Greeman, joins Masterminds in Maintenance this week to discuss the importance of Asset Management Education at all levels of a maintenance organization.
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George Williams joins us this week on Masterminds in Maintenance to discuss common mistakes he sees after running audits with maintenance and reliability teams. The short version? Garbage data in = garbage data out.
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We have a packed discussion with Paul Crocker, Supervisor of Maintenance at Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, this week on Masterminds in Maintenance!
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from Joe Anderson – COO at ReliabilityX.
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we’re excited to welcome Sanya Mathura, Managing Director & Senior Consultant at Strategic Reliability Solutions!
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This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we hear from LaWayne Smith, Head of Asset Management and Reliability at the University of Kansas Medical Center. LaWayne shares with us his journey being the steward of change for his organization in revitalizing their preventative maintenance program. Thank you, LaWayne, for joining us!
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On this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, Radar Huntsinger discusses the key elements of success in Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO) and how MRO directly impacts reliability and overall efficiency of any organization.
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