TPM without supervisors (it is possible!)
This is my third posting on maintenance supervisors (all supervisors). I started with a dilemma created by the redesign of a plant maintenance supervisors’ work. A reduction in the administrative
About the Author
Name: Rex Gallaher
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Bio: Rex Gallaher (CMRP, CPMM, BSME, BSIE, MSM) is a founding member of SMRP. He writes and speaks on logistics, design of work, management, leadership, motivation, quality and organizational change. For the last 12 of his 40 working years, he instituted – as the executive leader of the U.S. Postal Service’s Maintenance Technical Support Center – an ongoing leadership mentoring program, evolved the national PM program to be a quasi run-time value-added process, and championed reliability excellence into management and craft training. He is also an executive coach. He received the ASME Smarrow Award in 2001 for his lifetime efforts to evolve maintenance as a profession.
Articles written by Rex Gallaher
Work/life lessons and 16 important things to ponder
This is my last blog submission until later this year. It has been an interesting nine months, and I have heard from a lot of my fellow maintenance professionals.
You need to take care of your customers, your operators and your techs!
The customer is the end reason that the plant exists. However, the people who interact with the customer are employees. Management’s focus must be
Questions, comments and random thought triggers on maintenance
I evaluate maintenance operations on the existence of effective PM programs, a working and meaningful work order and information system, effectiveness
The rise of autonomous operator maintenance and work redesign
My blog entry on the “White Glove Story” got close to the idea of operator maintenance. My study on the coal gasification generating plant
The ‘White Glove Story’ and dirty little TPM secrets
Several years ago, a group called the Maintenance Excellence Roundtable met on the West Coast to present what it had accomplished during the previous year
Can maintenance and operations coexist? A radical process change story
My previous blog described a plant with no supervisors and with self-directed work teams that handled maintenance and operations. Most of us come from
How to enable process redesign and CMMS success
A blog from Kris Bagadia on “10 factors to a successful CMMS implementation” triggered a memory of attempting this in my preretirement days,
More from this Author
The supervisor must be more than a boss
My previous blog post began this rambling discussion about supervisors. I brought up the dilemma of what happens when we redesign work so that a portion of a supervisor’s duties are streamlined,
The maintenance supervisor enigma
In my pre-retired life, I managed the development of maintenance procedures, PM programs, methods and service tools for all deployed equipment within the U.S. Postal Service. We also monitored our maintenance
