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Workplace lessons learned from a baseball game
As some of you know, I spend a fair amount of time working in California. It happens I was there last week and thought I would share a story from that trip. It happens that one of my friends was part of a group taking some engineering interns out for a last hurrah at an Oakland Athletics baseball game before they returned back to engineering school
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Craft skills: Who are you going to call when it hits the fan?
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 details actions to take when disaster strikes. It was the “bonus” tip that struck home. “Make friends with your neighbors, especially
When speaking at conferences, you learn as much as you teach
My career in predictive maintenance (PdM) has evolved since my formative years in 1995 and my first exposure to it via simple Excel charts tracking resistance to ground readings on our runout table motors. This was actually the topic of my first-ever presentation at a conference. It was the Society for
Why does your plant run better when you’re not there?
Welcome to this blog on maintenance management. I have tried to summarize my background in a few sentences. I am the partner and vice president for IDCON Inc. This is written in January 2009 and, at this time, I have worked with IDCON
Do you want to be involved in predictive maintenance?
My career in predictive maintenance (PdM) at Dofasco’s Hot Mill started late in 1995 - September to be exact. It started with a question: “Do you want to be involved in predictive maintenance?” I didn’t know what I was getting into, but it sounded a lot better than what was
