About the Author
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
Manufacturing improvement and the Rolling Stones
If you’re like me, you’ve listened to the Rolling Stones over the years. Their contemporaries, the Beatles, became more artistic and lyrical
10 – 1 = 16.5; with maintenance planning, it’s possible
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
Lessons from Boulder Dam: Maintenance Achievements Begin with the Essentials
There’s a really great documentary that shows up periodically on public television. It describes the building of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam on the
Plant maintenance: Is it just like the tale of Sisyphus?
I stumbled across some music trivia lately, that the old rock band Chicago finally had its album “Stone of Sisyphus” released last year. One
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
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
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
