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The rise of autonomous operator maintenance and work redesign

The rise of autonomous operator maintenance and work redesign

By Rex Gallaher • on June 16, 2009

My blog entry on the “White Glove Story” got close to the idea of operator maintenance. My study on the coal gasification generating plant was about the ultimate vision of the one employee who has the skills and ability to do whatever is necessary to keep the process operating effectively. What

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How to enable process redesign and CMMS success

How to enable process redesign and CMMS success

By Rex Gallaher • on May 5, 2009

A blog from Kris Bagadia on “10 factors to a successful CMMS implementation” triggered a memory of attempting this in my preretirement days, long ago in 1990. I thought maybe my reply to Kris should be expanded, and this is the resulting blog posting. The United States Postal Service had

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