Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
The Leadership Connection™ is home to conversations with leaders from the condition monitoring, reliability, and maintenance industry. If you are looking to develop in your career, this is your connection! Leaders come from all over the world to share their experience and advice about leadership with contributing host and industry leader, Doug Plucknette. Produced by the industry's leading learning and networking community; MOBIUS CONNECT®.
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.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Don Yates in Episode 15 of this series. Mr. Donald Yates is a senior manufacturing executive with more than 40 years’ experience spearheading the rapid and sustained growth of leading manufacturing organizations. Mr. Yates gained his expertise in lean manufacturing by building effective teams, and formulating strategic reliability plans during his extraordinarily successful career in several leadership roles.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Rick Baldridge in Episode 14 of this series. Rick Baldridge, CMRP, CAMA is the Corporate Reliability Excellence Leader and has 41 years of experience working within Cargill. Experience in plant operations management, project management, information technology, procurement management, reliability excellence and maintenance management.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader David Howard in Episode 13 of this series. David Howard is an American entrepreneur, a veteran of the United States Air Force, and respected leader in the predictive maintenance industry. David is the CEO of Erbessd Instruments and is responsible for Strategic Direction, Distribution, Sales, Marketing and Operations worldwide.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Perry Steele in Episode 12 of this series. Perry Steele is a maintenance & reliability leader that has extensive experience in large, industrial manufacturing facilities. He has a passion for helping teams Deliver Certainty to their customers in these organizations.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Cliff Williams in Episode 11 of this series. Cliff has had a successful career in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management spanning four decades and industries from Steel, Pulp and Paper and food and beverage giants Coca Cola and Kraft. He has recently retired as the Corporate Maintenance and Reliability manager for a Canadian based chemical manufacturer where he guided the performance at 10 facilities.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Jason Hartman in Episode 10 of this series. Jason has held many roles in leadership and currently is a top leader, leading teams in a diverse number of plant operations roles including production management, project management, facility leadership, maintenance management, reliability leadership, and manufacturing engineering.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Bill Barto in Episode 9 of this series. Bill has spent over 20 years in various Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance roles. His work interests include Preventive Maintenance Optimization, Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS).
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Ron Moore in Episode 8 of this series. Ron specializes in maintenance, manufacturing performance leadership, and engaging the workforce, management. Ron is the author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, 5th ed.; of What Tool? When? A Management Guide, 2nd ed.; of Where Do We Start Our Improvement Program?; of Business Fables & Foibles; of A Common Sense Approach to Defect Elimination;  and of Our Transplant Journey: A Caregiver’s Story, as well as some 70 journal articles.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader David Hurst in Episode 7 of this series. David specializes in developing and updating the reliability maintenance program for the $12B+ assets across the complex as a Branch Manager at National Aerospace Solutions.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Randy Reid in Episode 6 of this series. Randy specializes in maintenance organization, training and reliability. He believes in doing the job the right way the first time and equipping maintenance with the knowledge to understand the equipment or processes as a Maintenance Manager/Reliability Engineer at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama.
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.
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.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Matthew Meyer in Episode 3 of this series. Matthew has spent over 33 years of manufacturing experience in areas of maintenance, operations, engineering and technical services and is currently the Senior Manager of Maintenance and Reliability Services at The Mosaic Company.