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Name: Jeff Shiver

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Bio: As managing principal for People and Processes, Jeff Shiver helps organizations implement best practices for maintenance and operations. Prior to this post, Jeff was a practitioner who worked 25 years in manufacturing and facilities with companies such as Procter and Gamble, IBM and Mars North America, where Jeff spent the bulk of his career. His experience includes maintenance and reliability, project and controls engineering, information technology and operations in manufacturing and corporate management roles.

Articles written by Jeff Shiver

P-cards are a help that also hurts; here’s how to reverse the curse

P-cards are a help that also hurts; here’s how to reverse the curse

By Jeff Shiver • on September 8, 2009

I recently was facilitating a maintenance management seminar, and during the course of discussions, the topic of purchasing cards (P-cards) being taken

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Let risk and your equipment determine your maintenance strategy

Let risk and your equipment determine your maintenance strategy

By Jeff Shiver • on June 10, 2009

When I attend conferences and workshops and read articles on maintenance and reliability, more and more I hear people touting that preventive maintenance

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Get your CEO to see the link between maintenance, plant safety

Get your CEO to see the link between maintenance, plant safety

By Jeff Shiver • on April 21, 2009

In many circles - and maybe your own company - over the last year or so, the question of reducing the cost of reliability has been ever present. Many maintenance

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Craft skills: Who are you going to call when it hits the fan?

Craft skills: Who are you going to call when it hits the fan?

By Jeff Shiver • on March 24, 2009

While it seems that every day as of late reminds us of impending doom and gloom, Neil Strauss gives us a new book entitled “Emergency” that

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