Podcasts about simplifying mining maintenance

In this week's episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Gerard Wood, Managing Director at Bluefield Asset Management, and Director of Relialytics, on the show! Gerard has an extensive background on mining equipment maintenance. And, as the Managing Director for Bluefield, he is helping mining companies all over the world keep their machines running and improve their equipment reliability. So, for this episode, Ryan picks Gerard's brain a little more to learn about mining maintenance. Listen today! Connect with us! https://www.onupkeep.com https://bit.ly/UpKeepFacebook https://bit.ly/UpKeepLinkedIn Music from https://filmmusic.io "Too Cool" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

There is an increasing awareness of the importance of building relationships with team mates and how this makes such a great impact on work ethic, efficiency and productivity in the workplace. Our guest today has 47 years of experience in the workplace and, having worked in every role imaginable from shop floor to management positions, he has a depth of knowledge in the mining industry and the importance of taking care of his team.  Tom Houston was a guest on our podcast earlier this year and we have him back today to take a deeper dive into the skills he utilises to build genuine relationships and obtain great results on site. Humans are very complex creatures, yet often it’s the simple things that make a big difference on our lives.  In this episode, Tom reiterates the importance of keeping things simple and being consistent and fair with the people around us.  When a culture of respect and trust flows from the top, it will naturally filter into all aspect of the company and produce excellent results. For more resources and information, head to the Bluefield Asset Management website. To learn more about getting the most out of your assets, grab a copy of Gerard’s book Simplifying Mining Maintenance.

On this week's episode, I welcome Gerard Wood back to the show. Gerard is the author of Simplifying Mining Maintenance and the host of the Bluefield 30 in 30 podcast. We discuss simplifying reliability, culture change and making sure the basics are done correctly. A few of you have asked me which conferences I'll be attending in 2020. Right now, I have nothing on the books but I am looking for a few to attend. That being said, I'm hoping to attend the SMRP conference, Ultrasound World conference and the MainTrain conference. If there are any others, you'd like me to check out or if you'd like me to speak at your event, please let me know by sending me an email to robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com or send me a message on LinkedIn. If you haven't yet, check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob's Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube. Finally, if there are any topics, guests you'd like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you'd like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com Check out UpKeep - http://www.robsreliability.com/upkeep/ Follow Gerard Wood on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-wood-146a3212/ Follow Rob's Reliability Project on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/ Follow Rob's Reliability Project on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/ Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

With 47 years of experience since he started his apprenticeship, our guest today Tom Houston certainly has a lot of knowledge to share. An electrician by trade, Tom worked his way up through basically every role imaginable to move through to a maintenance manager position, and also senior management for central maintenance groups.   Tom was very interested in continuing study to better his skillset and has completed a great deal of post trade study. He has worked in production roles and health and safety roles and believes that his time on both sides of the fence has given him a good holistic understanding of how to structure a successful site and this has contributed to his successes throughout the years.   We’re sure that you will take plenty of learnings from this conversation and this will give you the knowledge to employ the insights learned here in your organizations to get more from your assets.   For more resources and information, head to the Bluefield Asset Management website.   To learn more about getting the most out of your assets, grab a copy of Gerard’s book Simplifying Mining Maintenance.  

We’re back over in Chile today with another Spanish language episode, to sit down with Alfredo Perez who has over 30 years of experience working in the mining industry and is the Bluefield business manager in Chile. Gerard has known Alfredo for quite some time since the days when they both worked for BHP. Alfredo has since worked for Codelco and Anglo in Chile. He is an asset category specialist which means he is on the supply side and was responsible for many years to select and procure mining equipment. This required a detailed analysis of the asset lifecycle. He has a particular love for ensuring that maintenance equipment is maintained properly and working effectively, and Alfredo loves to pass on his knowledge. We’re sure that you will take plenty of learnings from this conversation and this will give you the knowledge to employ the insights learned here in your organizations to get more from your assets. For more resources and information, head to the Bluefield Asset Management website. To learn more about getting the most out of your assets, grab a copy of Gerard’s book Simplifying Mining Maintenance.

We are joined today by Norm Doxanakis who has more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry, having worked in a variety of maintenance management roles across the globe in many different companies. He started from the shop floor and worked his way all the way up to the highest level in maintenance that you can go. Norm has always had a clear focus on building trust within the workplace, and that becomes clear from our chat on the podcast today. He emphasises the importance of physically going onsite, talking to the workers, and finding out what the pain points are. You can’t always rely on the numbers and measurements, you need to talk to your teams, and get to the bottom of any less obvious issues that could be causing inefficiencies. We’re sure that you will take plenty of learnings from this conversation and this will give you the knowledge to employ the insights learned here in your organizations to get more from your assets. For more resources and information, head to the Bluefield Asset Management website. To learn more about getting the most out of your assets, grab a copy of Gerard’s book Simplifying Mining Maintenance.

We're taking you to the other side of the world today as you'll notice this episode is in Spanish, to chat to a man with over 40 years experience working in the mining maintenance industry. Julio Sotella started his career from the workshop floor and then grew into leadership roles. He has worked in mobile mining equipment and also fixed plant maintenance. He has a very practical understanding of equipment reliability and knows how to achieve it. Our host, Gerard Wood met Julio when he was the mobile maintenance manager for Spence mine in Chile. Julio setup the Spence mine from scratch as a greenfield project and he developed a team and workshop that had the best culture around oil and fluids cleanliness of any mine in BHP at that stage. It was the only mine in BHP to receive Caterpillar 5 Star oil cleanliness accreditation. Gerard was the Global Practice Leader for Maintenance in BHP Base Metals at the time and Spence was one of the mines in this part of BHP. On the podcast today, Julio emphasises the importance of keeping your workplace and equipment clean, and the positive outcomes this will achieve in machinery reliability. In his younger years working in an Iron Ore mine with his father, Julio noticed how dirty everything was, and when questioning his father about this, it was made apparent that the work culture at that time was that the dirtier the job site, the better the job performance. Julio did his research looking at automotive industries in other parts of the world, and came to realise that the reverse was in fact true. A clean job site, made it possible to achieve better reliability outcomes among many other benefits. We’re sure that you will take plenty of learnings from this conversation and this will give you the knowledge to employ the insights learned here in your organizations to get more from your assets. For more resources and information, head to the Bluefield Asset Management website. To learn more about getting the most out of your assets, grab a copy of Gerard’s book Simplifying Mining Maintenance.

Our guest today, Ian Goodwin, has more than 40 years of experience in the mining industry having worked across the globe. Ian started his career in Western Australia's iron ore industry in the mid-70s, working up from the workshop floor through supervisory and management roles, and then crossing over into the supply function. Ian became a general manager for supply and moved to the US and then on to Canada to head up maintenance and supply for Ekati Diamond Mine. Ian then became General Manager for Ekati before moving back to Australia after 10 years in North America to lead the BHP Billiton global maintenance networks, where Ian was responsible in sharing best practices across BHP's global mining operations. After this time, Ian supported several areas of BHP as General Manager for assets before hanging up the laptop, or so he thought. He has been in high demand since retiring and starting his asset advisory and coaching services business. We’re sure that you will take plenty of learnings from this conversation and this will give you the knowledge to employ the insights learned here in your organizations to get more from your assets. For more resources and information, head to the Bluefield Asset Management website. To learn more about getting the most out of your assets, grab a copy of Gerard’s book Simplifying Mining Maintenance.

With a career spanning over 30 years in the maintenance sector of the mining and resources industry, our guest today Gerard Wood has seen his fair share of machinery failure and productivity loss. It was a common occurrence for machinery to fail unexpectedly, and require considerable downtime to fix. Through Gerard’s experience in a variety of roles within the maintenance sector and a stint in the Global Maintenance Network, he developed a unique set of skills enabling him the ability to asses these maintenance issues and work towards positive business outcomes. In his experience, Gerard has found that the most important factor to increasing fleet availability is not the documentation or procedures, but the work culture. There are good people at every mine site that genuinely want to do a great job, but getting everyone on the same page is the most common challenge. If you can create and foster a cohesive team, your productivity and profits will increase. After years working on mine sites, Gerard’s inner entrepreneur took hold and with his savvy business partner, Gerard started Bluefield Asset Management. They have grown to a substantial size with offices globally, all working towards the common goal of creating efficient, profitable and safe mining environments. He is also working on a new company, Relialytics which improves asset reliability through a different approach to analytics. If all of this wasn’t enough, Gerard has also recently written a book, Simplifying Mining Maintenance to share his extensive knowledge, which can be purchased here. For more information on Bluefield Asset Management, head to their website. You can also connect with Gerard on LinkedIn. To learn more about Resources Unearthed, head to our website.

Rob talks to Gerard Wood, Managing Director of Bluefield Asset Management Specialists and author of Simplifying Mining Maintenance, about the varied services that Bluefield offer, and how they contribute to the mining industry by focussing on efficiency, reliability and cost effectiveness. KEY TAKEAWAYS Gerard began in the mining industry in his teens as a tradesman on the shop floor, working his way up and studying. By applying himself from the beginning, Gerard obtained a practical experience of the entire process, an education that has stood him in good stead as managing director of Bluefield Asset Management Specialists. Bluefield differentiate themselves from their competitors by focussing not on themselves as a single company, but by applying their technologies and practices to the mining industry as a whole so as to further the industry’s advancement. Bluefield handles fleet maintenance for a variety of business types, from larger corporations through to smaller companies, and each relationship is built upon the same foundations of trust and excellence. Bluefield nurture each business relationship in the same way, providing excellent service and impeccable expertise across the board. Gerard sees the future of Bluefield Asset Management Specialists in worldwide growth. North America, South America and Asia are potential markets that the company wishes to explore. Most importantly, Gerard wants to focus on adding value to his clients’ operations. By identifying common issues in mining maintenance, Gerard decided to pour his vast experience into the writing of a book that he hopes will aid the industry on a much larger scale. .BEST MOMENTS   “Our vision is an industry vision”   “We operate across the whole range - we like the fact that smaller companies value our services and the bigger companies are also very important to us”   “All of our guys have experience working in the context of our clients”   “To continue to drive yourself to be able to make a difference is what counts”   “My book’s written in very simple language - primarily so I can understand it!”       VALUABLE RESOURCES   Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes Bluefield Asset Management Specialists Simplifying Mining Maintenance - Amazon gwood@bluefield.com.au   ABOUT THE HOST   Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight to peoples experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.   Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first world to third world countries from Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. We source, headhunt and discover new and top talent talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients organisation in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace.   CONTACT METHOD rob@mining-international.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3        

From snow-covered Mine sites in the sub-zero Nordic region, to the tropics of Indonesia; Gerard Wood from Bluefield Asset Management Specialists has worked on almost every continent. Starting out as a Tradie, he worked his way into Management, then on to co-founding a mining consulting company, that focus on optimizing reliability and maintenance.  He lives and breathes his work so much so that he has written a book to pass forward his knowledge and experience.  Achieving success on many levels, Gerard remains humble and speaks in a way that leaves you confident he’s well researched and a no-nonsense kind of bloke.  Kicking things off with a quick beer review, we then dive into Gerard's Career and highlights and after flow into the future of Mining.  Gerard then dives into details on the book he’s authored, telling us why he wrote it and who will benefit most from it. We then wind down our chat with some technical questions which display Gerard's sharp knowledge on the topic of Mining, reliability, and maintenance, finishing with some wise words that should not be missed.  Kick back and Enjoy, and Please leave any feedback comments or questions below   01:10 Gerard current role & involvement in Mining 02:30 Beer review - Coopers Session Ale 04:30 Where to find Gerard and Bluefield 05:50 A brief summary of Gerard's expansive experience across 30+ years of Mining 10:50 Gerard's decision to start Bluefield Asset Management 11:36 Starting a business in the Mining Industry 13:00 Memorable experience working in so many different countries 14:32 Working in snow-covered equipment 15:30 What’s contributed most to your career success? 17:38 What Gerard anticipates to see in the future of Mining 19:08 Thoughts and involvement with AI and future technology 20:10 The future of Renewables and what’s currently holding them back 23:22 “Simplifying Mining Maintenance” is a book Gerard has authored, he tells us about what it’s about and who its for 26:44 The importance of communication in Mining Technical Questions 31:00 Mining equipment that is over-maintained 34:00 Flaws in maintenance strategies 37:15 Team morale 41:30 How do heavy-handed operators curb the culture 43:42 Book Recommendations 45:44 Gerard's wise final words   Show notes Fit4Fifo Contact: Website - https://fit4fifoaustralia.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fit4fifoaustralia/ Youtube - https://youtu.be/addme/TesX_vUTRDZjb-lhWqRMNuii0da6iw Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2JTIRXd Apple Podcast - https://apple.co/2YBEdkT Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fit4fifoaustralia/ Linkedin - https://linkedin.com/company/fit4fifo   Bluefield Asset Management Contact: Website - https://bluefield.com.au Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluefield-asset-management-specialists/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bluefieldams/   BOOKS referred to during Episode: Gerard's book: Simplifying Mining Maintenance: https://simplifyingminingmaintenance.com Bullshift: https://www.bullshift.com/buy-the-book/ Extreme ownership: https://www.amazon.com.au/Extreme-Ownership-Jocko-Willink/dp/1250067057  RCM 2 (Reliability-Centered Maintenance Second Edition): https://www.amazon.com/Reliability-Ce...  

On this week's episode, I welcome the author of Simplifying Mining Maintenance, Gerard Wood, on to the show. We talk about maintenance, why we need to do plant walk-arounds to get quick wins and Gerard breaks down some easy ways to engage with the shop floor. Check out Simplifying Mining Maintenance - https://simplifyingminingmaintenance.com/ Thank you for listening and if you enjoy the show, please subscribe to Rob's Reliability Project on your favourite podcast platform and share it with your colleagues. You can also follow Rob's Reliability Project on LinkedIn and Facebook and check out robsreliability.com as well. If you're looking for a shorter tip, subscribe to Rob's Reliability Tip of the Day on your favorite podcast platform or on your Amazon Alexa as a Flash Briefing. Finally, if there are any topics, guests you'd like to hear from, questions you want answered, or if you'd like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com Follow Rob's Reliability Project on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/ Follow Rob's Reliability Project on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/ Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

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