Part two of this three-part discussion with Greg Flickinger, Chairman of the OpX Leadership Network and Group Vice President of Manufacturing Operations for HEB grocery stores, highlights the impact of the IIOT movement with regards to new technology developments and techniques on how best to engage employees for successful adoption.

Discussion highlights include:

• Explaining how IIOT is positively impacting business
• Emergence of augmented reality wearables
• Addressing the challenges of new technology adoption
• Establishing a culture of acceptance

Additional Resources:

• OpX Leadership Network website
• Greg Flickinger on LinkedIn

Part one of this three-part discussion with Greg Flickinger, Chairman of the OpX Leadership Network and Group Vice President of Manufacturing Operations for HEB grocery stores, features an engaging discussion about today's manufacturing challenges and how leaders are coming together to help solve those issues.

Discussion highlights include:

• Explaining the OpX Leadership Network's mission
• Identifying the top four issues members of the council are facing
• Greg talks about the most challenging issues
• Discussing certain elements that are disrupting the way we manufacture goods

Additional Resources:

• OpX Leadership Network website
• Workforce Engagement: A management framework for improving employee productivity (whitepaper)
• Greg Flickinger on LinkedIn

Bill Wilder, founder and leader of Life Cycle Engineering's change management practice, joins the podcast to discuss the point of change saturation and the risks associated with undergoing more change than an organization is capable of handling at a given time.

Discussion highlights include:

• Defining change saturation
• Understanding the risks of too much change
• Identifying common symptoms of change overload
• Minimizing the risk of change saturation

Additional Resources:

• I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Communicating Effectively During Major Change
• Change Management (web page)
• Prosci (website)
• Bill Wilder on LinkedIn

Anil Agrawalla, a Senior Reliability Engineer and Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), joins the podcast to discuss predictive maintenance strategy and how manufacturing organizations are implementing and maintaining the program's efficiency.

Discussion highlights include:

• Struggles with tracking PdM program's effectiveness
• Measuring your PdM programs success
• Tips to better measure results
• Next steps after reviewing metrics and KPIs

Additional Resources:

• Predictive Maintenance: Part I
• Anil Agrawalla on LinkedIn

Anil Agrawalla, a Senior Reliability Engineer and Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), joins the podcast to discuss predictive maintenance strategy and how manufacturing organizations are implementing and maintaining the program's efficiency.

Discussion highlights include:

• Difference between predictive and preventive maintenance
• Best practices for setting up a PdM program
• Common mistakes organizations make during implementation
• On-the-job struggles of maintaining the program's efficiency

Additional Resources:

• Eliminate these Obstacles before You Implement Predictive Maintenance
• Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance Strategy
• Anil Agrawalla on LinkedIn

We are joined by Doug Wallace, a Senior Materials Management SME and PROSCI-certified Change Management professional, to discuss the considerations manufacturing facilities should make when setting up their storeroom for long-lasting effectiveness. We also talk about how to fix a broken storeroom.

Discussion highlights include:

• Purpose of the storeroom
• Technology advancements for smarter storerooms
• Planning and setting up the storeroom
• Fixing a failing storeroom
• Biggest challenges affecting efficiency of maintenance departments
• Answering Twitter questions

Additional Resources:

• Is Your MRO Storeroom a Productivity Trap?
• Does Your Storeroom Layout Make Sense?
• Extreme Makeover: Storeroom Edition
• Doug Wallace on LinkedIn

In this episode we're discussing stakeholders as it pertains to a manufacturing setting; where the employees, customers, and in some cases the community are the stakeholders. John Cray, a Certified Reliability Leader (CRL) with over 35 years of experience working in various processing industries, details how to effectively engage with your stakeholders to get the buy-in your project needs.

Discussion highlights include:

• Identifying your project's stakeholders
• Understanding consequences of not engaging your stakeholders
• Explaining how to effectively engage
• Assessing the needs of your stakeholders
• Addressing stakeholders using the Prosci Change Management methodology
• ISO 55000 Standard to stakeholder management

Additional Resources:

• 3 Ways to Measure Success of a Continuous Improvement Initiative (article)
• Best Practices for Using Value Stream Mapping as a Continuous Improvement Tool
• Stakeholder Management (brochure)
• John Cray on LinkedIn

Roger Corley joins the podcast for a second time to talk about the role of the maintenance planner and the six characteristics that make a planner great.

Discussion highlights include:

• Explaining the responsibilities of the maintenance planner
• Understanding the difference between planner and scheduler
• Identifying the six unique traits of a great planner
• Discussing the education needed to become a planner

Additional Resources:

• Avoid the Misguided Application of the Maintenance Planner Scheduler (article)
• Maintenance Planners: At the Center of it All (article)
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling (course)
• Roger Corley on LinkedIn

Jeff Nevenhoven, a Prosci-certified Change Management Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in operations and reliability, joins the podcast to discuss the Prosci ADKAR model for change management. Jeff explains how each phase of the model is used to facilitate successful change management for manufacturing organizations.

Discussion highlights include:

• Explaining the purpose of the ADKAR model
• Detailing each phase and how it's used to facilitate change
• Discussing the importance of following each phase in order
• Becoming Prosci-certified in change management

Additional Resources:

• Uranium Mill Continues to Set the Pace with Operational Reliability (ADKAR success story)
• Prosci Change Management Training Programs
• Jeff Nevenhoven on LinkedIn

Our podcast co-host and Learning SME, Tara Holwegner, brings her passion and knowledge about workforce development to explain why manufacturing facilities should view competency-based training as a necessity for those organizations looking to become world-class leaders. Tara also explains her process to achieving competency and how that approach is closing the skills gap.

Discussion highlights include:

• Defining competency and how it's helping the bottom line
• 70/20/10 model for learning and development
• 3A Learning process for building competency
• On-the-job examples

Additional Resources:

• Learning Impact Map (web resource)
• Powered by Rx (online resource portal)
• 3A Learning - Align, Assimilate, Apply (article)
• Closing the Manufacturing Workforce Skills Gap (IndustryWeek article)
• Tara Holwegner on LinkedIn