An Interview with Doug Plucknette
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we welcome Doug Plucknette, founder of Reliability Solutions, to the show!
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Masterminds in Maintenance
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.
MIM 027 Maureen Gribble
An Interview with Maureen Gribble
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we are so excited to welcome Maureen Gribble, Director of Marketing at UE Systems, to the show!
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An Interview with George Hawkins
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we are so excited to welcome George Hawkins, Founder of Moonshot LLC and former head of DC Water, to the show!
MIM 025 Gary Rigdon
An Interview with Gary Rigdon
On this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we welcome Gary Rigdon, maintenance and reliability SME, on the show!
MIM 024 Anna Goodman
An Interview with Anna Goodman
On this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we welcome Anna Goodman, reliability engineer at ARMS Reliability, on the show!
MIM 023 George Parada
An Interview with George Parada
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we are so excited to welcome George Parada to the show!
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An Interview with Simon Murray
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we welcome Simon Murray to the show!
MIM 021 Tim Rice
An Interview with Tim Rice
This week on Masterminds in Maintenance, we dive deeper into the topic of defect elimination!
MIM 020 Calvin Williams
An Interview with Calvin Williams
This week, we welcome Calvin Williams to the show to discuss how Continuous Improvement starts at the shop floor.
MIM 019 Howard Penrose
An Interview with Howard Penrose
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?” Listen now to find out these answers and more!
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An Interview with Jeff Shiver
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%.
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An Interview with Bob Latino
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.
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An Interview with Steven Dobie
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.
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An Interview with Ricky Smith
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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MIM 014 James Kovacevic
An Interview with James Kovacevic
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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