ABSTRACT
The widening skills gap in America: Who will keep our automation running?
With our society’s emphasis on technology (smart phones, internet, social media,....) we have an entire generation that is skipping over the technology (manufacturing plants, robotics, PLS, CNC,....) that makes the technology. We value the brain surgeon (for obvious reasons) but do not value the skills that built the facility, HVAC, O2 Generators, and sterile operating environment critical for success. Without these services the surgeon will fail. Many plants find it harder and harder to find the skills required to keep the plant running efficiently. How significant is this decline? What will the consequence be if unchecked? What can be done to change the direction?
During the presentation we will cover widening skills gap in America, key contributing factors, and discuss possible solutions.
Participants will learn:
- Data on the decline
- Live polling of key factors within the group
- Factors leading to the skills gap from the companies participating in the session
- Brainstorm causes
- Discussion on the career opportunities available
- Discussion on the consequence of the skills shortage
GREG FOLTS
President/CEO, Marshall Institute, Inc.
Greg Folts is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and has served as Manager of Continuous Improvement over Lean Six Sigma and Total Productive Maintenance. He has great passion for Maintenance and Reliability, especially in the areas of: strategy, partnerships between maintenance and operations, Digital Transformation (IIOT or Industrial Internet of Things), Asset Management/ISO 55000, and translating reliability concepts into shop floor practical solutions. Greg strongly believes in standardization, processes, strategic thinking, and partnership at all levels of the organization. He is a lifelong learner, loves meeting people and sharing knowledge, embraces challenges, and enjoys helping clients solve problems.
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Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020: 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
Using Metrics to Drive Maintenance Process Improvements
Eight years ago, we struggled to even define what reliability meant in our plants. We started a reliability improvement effort because downtime was eating our lunch. We defined what good looked like and developed the metrics to help lead us forward. As plants reach goal they run like finely tuned machines, as they should. We utilize a robust array of metrics to measure how our processes are performing and improving over time. Utilizing the correct metrics has helped us define our goals and expectations as an organization, bring visibility to our improvement efforts and help us in our continued push toward excellence.
Participants will learn:
- Why Process Management is essential for excellence
- Quality data is the commodity that we deal in
- Determining which metrics and why
- What does reliability really look like in an operation
- How metrics lead us to the promised land
MARK ROBERTSON
Senior Reliability Specialist – Land O’ Lakes
I have spent the past 40+ years working and leading maintenance and reliability departments and organizations. I know the hardships of working in reactive cultures. No one really thrives in these cultures they just survive. With the proper processes established, defined performance expectations and measures utilized, any operation can move to reliable. This is my passion and goal for the plants I work with.
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Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021: 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
Practical Tips for Leaders to Create Followship in the Shop
Creating and sustaining “followship” is the mark of a true leader. This presentation will use an engaging alliterative approach to cover the 14 C’s of leadership: Compassion, Commitment, Compromising, Cooking (not Catering), Complimenting, Criticizing, Character, Courage, Challenging, Collaborate, Consistent, Competent, Connecting, and Commiserating.
When mastered, the 14 C’s can help you make your concerns their concerns, and as a result, create trust and lasting followship.
Participants will learn:
- The difference in a leader’s approach and a manager’s approach
- What makes people primarily see you as a leader first and a manager second
- How to move back and forth between leading and managing, and leading and following
- Contrasting leader/manager scenarios with attendee participation
- How to frame a conversation to facilitate follow through
ANGELA JO WALL
Senior Manager of Engineering and Maintenance, ButterBall, LLC
- Maintenance Manager @ MOPICO for 3 yrs
- 13 yrs experience as community college instructor in Engineering
- Journeyman Industrial Electrician, Unlimited Electrical License since 2004
- CMRP since 1/2020
- Past Certified Energy Manager and Certified Manufacturing Technologist
- AAS – Industrial Maintenance Technology
- BS – Business Management, Computer Information Systems
- MS – Technology Systems, Manufacturing Systems
- EdS – Higher Education Leadership
- NSF Principal Investigator and Project Manager
- University research for federal grant projects – SFSU
- Grant writer for public and private entities
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Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021: 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
Developing the Leadership Mindset: Realizing Your Potential
Join Tom Furnival, Marshall Institute's Vice President, on Wednesday, March 10, at 8am PT / 11am ET for the next free webinar in the MRM Summit series. Tom will discuss the importance of “Developing the Leadership Mindset”. The Leadership Mindset is a superpower perspective that is the key source of success for modern leaders. The goal of this session is to get you to explore how your mindset is enabling your success, and how it may be holding you back from realizing your potential.
In the webinar you will have the opportunity map your mindset strengths and gaps with the baseline assessment.
Key topics include:
- The purpose of leadership
- The life-changing influence of your mindset
- Leveraging the Leadership Mindset
- Take the baseline mindset assessment
THOMAS J. FURNIVAL
Vice President, Marshall Institute
Thomas (Tom) is a business leader who is passionate about education, growth and potential. Since joining Marshall Institute in 2007 Tom has brought strategic vision, action, and growth through high-level leadership.
Tom has a BA in Business and Marketing from The University of Stirling. He’s a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP).
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021: 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
Inventory Optimization in Medical Manufacturing
In 2018 an Asset Management assessment a medical product plant in San Angelo identified that site inventory was one of the biggest opportunities. The assessment identified what many already knew but did not know how to solve. A few of the findings were: the site had many satellite tool cribs, inventory was ‘protected’ by an open store “honesty policy”, cycle counts were annual, and we had no metrics. Sound familiar?
In this presentation I will share the struggles, successes, and learnings from our two-year journey to transform our inventory management system and positively change our culture.
Participants will learn:
- Culture change is not easy
- Benefits of frequent cycle counts
- Honesty policy is not honest
- Strict inventory policies
- Weekly / monthly metrics
CHAD SANDQUIST
Reliability Engineer Tech in Medical Manufacturing
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- Retired 22 yrs Air Force Aircraft Hydraulic Mechanic
- 5 yrs experience Air Force Process Improvement (AF Lean Green Belt, Blackbelt)
- Medical Manufacturing Industry:
- 5 yrs Manufacturing Maintenance Facilitator
- 3 yrs Reliability Engineer Tech
- Certifications: ASQ Green Belt, SMRP - Maintenance Reliability
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021: 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
The Many layers of Optimizing PM's
The goal of every preventive maintenance process is to administer the correct level of preventive maintenance, using no more resources and material than is needed, to deliver maximum throughput or maintain the desired capacity level. But how do we do that? How do we ensure our PM strategies are continuously improved to be in “tip top shape?” The goal is to ensure the PM's provide optimal value over the life of the asset. In this presentation you will learn about the many layers of optimizing PMs, when to use them, and what results to expect.
Participants will learn:
- Common strategic and tactical mistakes made with PM Optimization efforts
- Using a focused management team to manage and improve preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
- How to apply multiple PM Optimization tools within the optimization strategy
- The differences between a PMO Workshop, PM Blitz, PM Review and PM Audit
- How to combine strategy, process, and tactics together for a comprehensive PM Optimization approach
STEVE GOWAN
Director of Manufacturing Services, Marshall Institute
Steve Gowan is a proven Continuous Improvement leader with 20 years of industrial leadership experience coupled with 7 years of Asset Management/Maintenance and Reliability consulting.
Steve's industrial experience started in the United States Air Force while serving as a Crew Chief on the B-1 Bomber. After serving in the military, Steve held various engineering positions in the aerospace industry, owned his own business, was a MRO Manager for an automotive company, and was Plant Manager for a mass production bakery.
As a consultant, Steve has held various positions at Marshall Institute including Senior Consultant, and Manager of Manufacturing and Training Services, and currently is the Senior Manager of Manufacturing Services. Steve is a proven trainer, facilitator, coach, and mentor. Steve's passion for continuous improvement, experience at multiple levels in industry, and leadership skills allow him to guide and train clients to optimize, improve, develop, and implement strategies focused on reliability gains and cost savings.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021: 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
Develop a Winning PdM Partnership
I have really cringed twice in my career, the first is when implementing a TPM program and the director said, “We will put a grease gun at every machine so the operator can grease their own machine.” The other was when I was told to buy 3 IR cameras and tell the technicians to go and find problems. The issue with both commands were that they did not include training first.
In this presentation I will show you a PdM implementation plan I have used successfully in 2 companies. In both companies we developed a strong and sustainable PdM program, leveraging the support of a PdM partner/company. To me the key word here is sustainable. You will hear how I “sold” the programs to upper management while getting buy-in from my team and my peers. I will share with you the documents which we created to monitor the program, the training plan we developed, and the way we made it sustainable.
Participants will learn:
- How to select the PdM Partner
- Getting the buy-in from upper management
- Showing the value through quick wins
- Developing your team to do PdM
- Sustaining the PdM program
CHUCK GASKINS
Senior Maintenance Manager, Plymouth Tube Corporation
Chuck was raised in construction but started my maintenance career around 1990 in metal stamping as a technician, which lead to developing the MRO crib, installing the first CMMS, and eventually facility manager. Chuck then moved to the food industry where he became a maintenance planner, maintenance coordinator, and finally corporate TPM & Reliability leader. Chuck was given the opportunity to attend NCSU/ Marshall Institute's MRM course and earned his CMRP. He is currently serving as Sr. Maintenance Manager for Plymouth Tube Company with direct responsibility over our Hopkinsville, Kentucky maintenance and reliability program, and assisting other mills.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021: at 11am-12pm EST
ABSTRACT
Communicating Your Way to Shutdown Readiness and Success
Communication is the key to ensuring major events such as Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages are successful. We will discuss some proven practices and tools which will enable you, the Execution Team, to effectively communicate throughout the preparation, shutdown, execution, startup and closeout phases.
Participants will learn:
- The benefits of roadmaps/ timelines to reflect major milestones and activities
- The benefits of organizational charts to ensure clear lines of communication
- The benefits of communications boards to communicate readiness status
- The benefits of plot plans to communicate key areas for logistics preparation during executions
ALAN WARMACK
Director, Training Services and Partner
Alan brings 40 years of experience in Maintenance and Reliability. He progressed through Industrial Maintenance as a Supervisor, Planner, Planning and Scheduling Manager and Continuous Improvement Manager. Over the last 17 years, Alan has consulted in maintenance and turnarounds, lecturing at NCSU, leading international conferences, training, coaching and consulting both publicly and in-house.
Alan has recently transitioned from the Director of Energy Services to Director of Training. His focus is ensuring Marshall Institute provides knowledge transfer and skills development to maintenance professionals. Alan has worked with Fortune 500 companies across North America, Canada, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021: at 11am-12pm EST