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
Cross-functional OEE? Is it still a maintenance metric? Is it a finance tool?
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
How much would you pay for a dollar?
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”
Developing the professional maintenance manager
In today’s environment of “lean”, TPM, reliability excellence, RCM, integrated maintenance/operations teams, new technologies and constant
One plant’s solution to the Sweet 16 dilemma. What’s yours?
My prior article posed the proposition that, to some employees, the typical
Is your plant organization ship shape? Probably not.
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
Help employees get the most out of their career, their life
“Rex, your maintenance leadership mentoring program caused four employees to leave the company!” That was the response when I gave an update
Restroom libraries and all that jazz
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
