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.
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.
This is my third posting on maintenance supervisors (all supervisors). I started with a dilemma created by the redesign of a plant maintenance supervisors’
I was an instructor in a program for the U.S. Postal Service for which classes of 40 executives spent two weeks at our Executive Center learning about
This subject may be old hat to some of you. I encourage you to read through it for a unique use of overall equipment effectiveness. I became a skeptic
In my seminars and speeches, I sometimes use audience participation to drive home a point or to interrupt the “I’ve heard it all before”
In today’s environment of “lean”, TPM, reliability excellence, RCM, integrated maintenance/operations teams, new technologies and constant
My prior article posed the proposition that, to some employees, the typical
You are in the engine room of the USS Lincoln. Your job as an oiler is to perform the cleaning and lubrication routes for the steam turbines. You are watching a control panel that monitors all of the ship’s
“Rex, your maintenance leadership mentoring program caused four employees to leave the company!” That was the response when I gave an update on the successes of a program that was celebrating
On my first day in my first job out of college, I discovered technical and business magazines in the bathroom stalls. My supervisor also informed me that I was expected to continue my education while at
