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The ‘White Glove Story’ and dirty little TPM secrets

The ‘White Glove Story’ and dirty little TPM secrets

By Rex Gallaher • on June 11, 2009

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 and where it was headed for the coming year. We were privileged to have Robert Williamson in attendance, and he told us a story that stuck with me

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TPM without supervisors (it is possible!)

TPM without supervisors (it is possible!)

By Rex Gallaher • on April 21, 2009

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 activities should have been replaced with what I thought of as floor or face time. My second posting

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Developing the professional maintenance manager

Developing the professional maintenance manager

By Rex Gallaher • on January 20, 2009

In today’s environment of “lean”, TPM, reliability excellence, RCM, integrated maintenance/operations teams, new technologies and constant pressure to make maintenance more effective and elevate it to a prominent value-added position, the maintenance manager must become a business unit

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