Maintenance Mondays

Practical Reliability Insights. Every Monday.

Welcome to the Maintenance Monday Library, your resource for practical reliability strategies, maintenance best practices, and real-world insights. Start with the featured episode below, explore previous episodes, and check back each Monday for new content.

Looking for answers to a specific maintenance or reliability challenge? Reach out to James at couch@fsoinstitute.com. He’d be happy to connect and point you in the right direction.

Meet Your Host

With over four decades in manufacturing leadership, James Couch has held roles spanning operations, maintenance, engineering, safety, environmental, and corporate leadership. Today, as an FSO Institute Partner and Manufacturing Coach, he helps manufacturers improve operational performance through practical, experience-driven coaching.

Newest Episode

SERIES ROADMAP

✓ Released

  1. Episode 1: Reliability Maintenance 101
  2. Episode 2: MTBF Made Practical: What the Number Really Tells You
  3. Episode 3: MTTR Secrets: Measure the Real Downtime Clock
  4. Episode 4: MTTF: When Failure Is Part of the Equation
  5. Episode 5: The Absent Technician
  6. Episode 6: CMMS – The Digital Graveyard Podcast Episode
  7. Episode 7: The Hidden Cost of Micro-Stops on the Line 
  8. Episode 8: From Calendar PMs to Condition-Based Maintenance
  9. Episode 9: Centerlining From Secret Recipes to a Golden Run Baseline
  10. Episode 10: Autonomous Maintenance in CPG_ Ownership, Not Headcount Cuts

Coming Up

  • E11: OEE Reality Check_ Hidden Losses, MTBF, and MTTR

New episodes are added each Monday.

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