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Name: John Crossan

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Bio: John Crossan is currently consulting. He retired after spending 30-plus years with the Clorox Company. His roles for much of the last 14 years were mainly focused on improving operations by fostering the installation and ongoing implementation of basic manufacturing and maintenance procedural mechanisms across 30 varied plants in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to Clorox, John also held operational and engineering roles with Johnson & Johnson and the Burndy Corporation. To learn more, visit the Manufacturing Ownership Website at http://johncrossan.com or email John at jdc654@yahoo.com .

Articles written by John Crossan

Best-selling checklists?

Best-selling checklists?

By John Crossan • on February 16, 2010

As an unrepentant checklist fanatic/junkie, I recently had to pick myself up off the floor in an airport newsstand (not a bookstore, but a newsstand!).

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Why improvement efforts fail

Why improvement efforts fail

By John Crossan • on December 29, 2009

Why do improvement efforts fail or perhaps not sustain the gains? There are many reasons, but those most often stated are “lack of commitment”

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Improvements must be generated, implemented on a daily basis

Improvements must be generated, implemented on a daily basis

By John Crossan • on November 21, 2009

I heard a radio interview some time back with Neil Sedaka. If the name is no longer familiar, he is probably one of the most successful songwriters of

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Manufacturing improvement and the Rolling Stones

Manufacturing improvement and the Rolling Stones

By John Crossan • on October 24, 2009

If you’re like me, you’ve listened to the Rolling Stones over the years. Their contemporaries, the Beatles, became more artistic and lyrical

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10 – 1 = 16.5; with maintenance planning, it’s possible

10 – 1 = 16.5; with maintenance planning, it’s possible

By John Crossan • on August 11, 2009

I’m a big fan of podcasts, and one I listen to regularly is a financial/economic podcast put out every month by Bill Gross of PIMCO, the giant bond

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Lessons from Boulder Dam: Maintenance Achievements Begin with the Essentials

Lessons from Boulder Dam: Maintenance Achievements Begin with the Essentials

By John Crossan • on August 7, 2009

There’s a really great documentary that shows up periodically on public television. It describes the building of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam on the

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Plant maintenance: Is it just like the tale of Sisyphus?

Plant maintenance: Is it just like the tale of Sisyphus?

By John Crossan • on June 10, 2009

I stumbled across some music trivia lately, that the old rock band Chicago finally had its album “Stone of Sisyphus” released last year. One

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34 Signs You’re Living in the Real World of Maintenance

Anyone who has ever done plant maintenance improvement work is inevitably accused at times (sometimes in very imaginative, descriptive ways, some of which are physically impossible) of just not knowing

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The use of equipment checklists - an emotion-packed discussion

Over the years, I have spent (as have many others) much time in discussion/debate/argument in plants over the use of checklists for equipment changeovers and startups. I have explained, reasoned, rationalized,

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Rigor (to the point of mortis)?

I really enjoy the writings of Malcolm Gladwell. Both of his books - “Blink” and “The Tipping Point” - have been best-sellers over the last five years. If you are not familiar with

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