17 articles in vlog.
On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Matthew Edwards — Plant Facilities Manager and Maintenance Manager at First Solar — shares the maintenance strategy behind a highly automated plant working toward 21,000 solar panels a day: predictive and preventive maintenance driven by data, and why great maintenance is as much about building people as maintaining machines.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Varadarajan 'V' Balaraman — a site plant manager at Standex International building a startup operation inside an established company — shares how he turns failures into teachable moments, knows when technology hits its limit and process takes over, and gives operators a real voice in solving problems.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Ivan Getov — Maintenance Excellence Manager at Eastman Chemical Company — explains why AI and predictive tools can't replace good maintenance fundamentals: moving past the reactive 'hero' mentality, building systems for the full work cycle, and remembering that maintenance is ultimately about people working together.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Reinhardt de Jager — a reliability and maintenance management pro — shares how teams move from reactive to proactive: building real failure modes into the maintenance plan, letting condition data buy them time, eliminating root causes instead of re-repairing them, and remembering that the job is to move steel through the door.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Tony Ingram — Senior Maintenance Supervisor at Daikin Applied — shares how his team keeps equipment ranging from decades old to nearly new running: moving toward predictive maintenance, managing thousands of spare parts, finding skilled technicians, and one failure that left roughly two tons of steel 30 feet in the air.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Trevor Kennedy — Plant Manager for Parker Hannifin's HELAC hydraulic actuator operation — shares how a team of eight keeps 280+ assets running: moving toward predictive maintenance, staging critical spare parts and spindles, and treating maintenance as problem-solving, not just repair.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Sean Archer — a maintenance manager in heavy steel manufacturing leading a team of 13 — shares how preventive and predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, and modern controls like Allen-Bradley and Rockwell are reshaping the skills the plant floor demands.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Joshua Kroll — Facilities Maintenance Supervisor at Trinchero Family Estates and a former Marine Corps and Navy nuclear submarine officer — shares how he prepares a winery for harvest season, grows technicians internally, troubleshoots by challenging assumptions, and puts AI to practical use in maintenance.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Nathan Santiago, Facilities Engineer at C&H/New Holland, shares how large manufacturing operations reduce downtime — tailoring preventive maintenance to real operating conditions, positioning tools near critical equipment, and using data-driven process improvements to eliminate hundreds of hours of lost production.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Gabe Little — a maintenance leader whose career spans Jacobson Logistics, Amazon, ThredUP, and Ross Stores — shares how reliability goes beyond preventive maintenance: asset lifecycle management, CMMS documentation, spare-parts strategy, and the growing role of AI in maintenance analytics.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Cory James, Plant Manager at Zeus Industrial Products, reveals the precision medical-grade tubing behind catheters and stents — and how Zeus balances growth with reliability, rebuilds equipment in-house, and trains the next generation of manufacturing talent.
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On Maintenance & Manufacturing Insights, Josiah Peterson of Oldcastle Building Envelope shares a career journey from a rural dairy farm to leading maintenance in glass manufacturing — and the strategies that keep specialized equipment running.
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On the Adapt and Overcome Podcast, Martin Engster shares a story spanning continents, military service, and more than 60 years of family legacy in the CNC manufacturing industry.
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Korey Mertz of Advanced Machine Engineering explains why preventive maintenance is a culture, not a checklist — from monitoring drawbar pull force to preserving tribal knowledge and avoiding costly downtime.
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Maintenance Manager Todd Gibbs shares how lessons from the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine program shape reliability-centered maintenance, vibration analysis, and planned shutdowns in modern manufacturing.
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James Brett of Carbon Aerospace on maintaining 1,200+ assets across a 650,000 sq ft facility — proactive maintenance, CMMS-driven decisions, and preparing for equipment obsolescence in aerospace manufacturing.
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Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages supervisor Ian Long on running can lines at 1,300 cans per minute, handling a 2 a.m. Code Red filler failure, and why leadership and people matter most in high-speed manufacturing.
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