Leadership
How to Maintain an Efficient Workforce During the Pandemic and Beyond
Workforce efficiency is key to success in a market facing labor shortages and skills gap issues. Factor in a global pandemic, and most companies have had to reimagine how they meet staffing requirements, asking questions like: What are the current recruiting and staffing challenges? Should we partner with an outside firm to help support recruiting needs? How is COVID-19 impacting the way business is done?
- Caroline Campbell Burgreen
- Allied Reliability
Episode 17: Will Bower
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.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Managing the Business Effect of An Aging Workforce
Recently I sat on panel to discuss the aging of the workforce. The panel was made up of representatives of several manufacturing companies, and they outlined their company’s current situation regarding the coming retirement of so-called baby boomers, the first of whom are now into their sixties. I happen to be one of them.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Based on comments from my last post, I picked a "Joe's Dope Sheet" that focuses on management. I hope you enjoy!
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Episode 16: Scott Brown
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.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Episode 15: Don Yates
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.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Business Performance Improvement in Reliability
Today, Ron and Doug discuss business performance, management, and leadership skills.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Episode 14: Rick Baldrige
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.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
What is Reliability and OEE? by Doug Plucknette and Ron Moore
In this first episode of CONNECT CONVERSATIONS, we learn more about our entertaining hosts Ron and Doug.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT