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Leadership Skills
Navigating the hero’s journey in plant management: A tale of success and setbacks
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says the road to excellence is not always the easy course with challenges and enemies.
Leadership Skills
Maintain industry standards with process management: From drift to discipline
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says auditing, training, and reviewing will uphold quality in your process.
Leadership Skills
How to earn plant manager buy-in: The importance of credibility and effective resource allocation
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says build reliability credibility as an organization by observing and eliminating waste.
Leadership Skills
6 steps to build a strong reliability culture at your plant
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says best-in-class reliability tools are second to the relentless focus on eliminating waste.
Leadership Skills
How to avoid an emergency maintenance culture
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn outlines a step-by-step guide to move from a reactive to planned maintenance culture.
Leadership Skills
Ego is the enemy of plant efficiency and optimization
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says don't let busy work blind you to the truth on the ground at your plant.
Leadership in Action
10 reliability and maintenance truths
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn shares the lessons he learned during his 32 years in manufacturing.
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Alexis Gajewski
Captain Unreliability
Why firing factory workers is the new innovation strategy
Captain Unreliability
Industrial Automation
Podcast: Facing a recession? Here's how automation can keep your factory running
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Leadership in Action
2023 industry wrap-up: The best of Leadership in Action
In this year-end wrap-up, we shine a spotlight on Joe Kuhn's most influential columns.
Leadership Skills
Prioritize root cause problem solving to improve performance at your facility
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says improve plant reliability by adding problem solving and focusing on condition monitoring.
Leadership Skills
Selling reliability: Why communication is key to changing plant culture
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says a communication plan will help connect the dots between reliability actions and achievements.
Leadership Skills
Leaders create leaders: Why culture change starts with great leadership
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says sometimes all a new leader needs is a little nudge in the right direction.
Leadership Skills
Improve your team's work ethic with a culture change
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says a properly functioning team needs a system, driven by a strong maintenance culture.
Leadership Skills
Go and see: Take the first step to create a culture of reliability at your plant
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn says a new culture is born when leaders spend time on the shop floor observing waste as it happens.
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Skill up: Bridging the skills gap — Why manufacturers are investing in educational partnerships
Alexis Gajewski
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Factory fallout: Manufacturing plant closures and layoffs from Wolfspeed, Matalco, AlaTrade Foods, and more
Alexis Gajewski
Planning and Scheduling
How smart scheduling gives manufacturers a competitive edge
Doc Palmer
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Merck invests $1B to build biologics manufacturing facility in Delaware
Alexis Gajewski
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Delta Star Inc. invests $35M to expand power transformer manufacturing facility in Virginia
Alexis Gajewski
The Lighter Side of Manufacturing
Robot roundup: Affordable androids and flame-fighting robots redefine industrial innovation
Alexis Gajewski
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Manufacturing minute: 4 must-read articles on metaverse-powered manufacturing, Keen’s robotic boot factory, and more
Alexis Gajewski
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Chelsea Building Products invests in new 228,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania
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