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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Improve your team's work ethic with a culture change
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Joe Kuhn says a properly functioning team needs a system, driven by a strong maintenance culture.
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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: How manufacturers and schools are working together to create skilled workers
Alexis Gajewski
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Factory fallout: Manufacturing plant closures and layoffs from Boeing, Whirlpool, Proterra, and more
Alexis Gajewski
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Bayer invests $44M to expand consumer health product manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania
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Technology
Podcast: Inside John Deere’s Waterloo plant — A model for 5G in modern manufacturing
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It's just business: Manufacturing moves from Intel, Apptronik, LimitlessCNC, and more
Alexis Gajewski
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Switched Source to expand Phase-EQ manufacturing facility in Illinois
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5 workers killed, 10 injured in explosion at aluminum manufacturing facility
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Industry report roundup: Perspectives on tariffs and reshoring, cybersecurity risks, product development, and more
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