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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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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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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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