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Leadership Skills
How a misdiagnosed bearing exposed gaps in maintenance culture and reliability practices
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn unpacks a real plant failure to highlight deeper issues in technician training and plant leadership.
Leadership Skills
Why focus is the key to driving reliability success in manufacturing plants
Joe Kuhn
Joe Kuhn exposes the dangers of trying to improve everything at once in industrial operations.
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.
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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.
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.
Captain Unreliability
Modern manufacturing marvels: The engineering triumph of plant equipment
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Podcast: How Co-Line and Hexagon are combining robotics and human talent in manufacturing
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