Apr 19, 2021 | Articles, Plant Services Magazine, Productive Leadership, Uncategorized
Back in 2015 I partnered with Tom Wilk and the staff at Plant Services magazine to create a leadership survey. We had about 300 respondents. After crunching the numbers, slicing and dicing the information, I wrote a series of Plant Services magazine articles that...
Apr 19, 2021 | Articles, Plant Services Magazine, Productive Leadership
In my consulting practice, I was working with a company on scheduling and productivity issues on their multiple production lines. Primarily they were concerned with keeping up with the workload and availability of resources – having enough employees and contractors...
Apr 19, 2021 | Articles, Plant Services Magazine, Productive Leadership, Uncategorized
How organizations are reducing losses due to preventable maintenance issues A new report sheds light on maintenance economics. In September 2019 I was doing some research on the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP). I came across an article on the National...
Jul 7, 2020 | Articles, Plant Services Magazine, Productive Leadership
Defect elimination and whiteboard process mapping. Consider these two ways to help your teams maintain productivity and continually keep performance high. By Tom Moriarty Published by Plant Services Magazine Jun 30, 2020 “A few months ago, we were firing on all...
Jul 7, 2020 | Articles, Plant Services Magazine, Productive Leadership
Follow these three steps to reduce stress at work and increase motivation for you and your personnel. By Tom Moriarty Published in Plant Services Magazine May 28, 2020 I had a question from a work center supervisor who wanted to know how a leader can improve work-life...