June Edition Sponsored by The Maintenance Excellence Institute Where Reliability & Maintenance Excellence begins with PRIDE-in-Maintenance! TrueWorkShops that achieve measured training results. The Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence to define your baseline. The Reliability & Maintenance Excellence Index to define ROI. The ACE Team Process to estimate maintenance type work. Exclusive benchmarking & productivity tools all at www.PRIDE-in-Maintenance.com. Become a PRIDE Member for free! Is your company tapped in the Youthbuild pipeline of future workers? Youthbuild USA is striving to help develop a skilled workforce. Peter Lamantia, who was formerly homeless, explains why he loves the career opportunities that the YouthBuild program opened up for him. Thirsty for reliability? Millions of people in the Middle East live in a desert. Those who run and maintain the water desalination plants deserve praise and support for their efforts. Joel Leonard sat down with leaders of the Saudi Water Commission and Datastream Arabia to learn how they were able to implement EAM in three months. How to stand up to indiscriminate budget cuts With the economic downturn continuing to cause anxiety and concern, companies are making drastic decisions. Some of these short-term decisions could have disastrous consequences if not completely reviewed and evaluated. You have options Joel Leonard supports simple efforts to help fight the maintenance crisis. Aging workers How to make the most of tough demographics. Protect your condition-monitoring program from the recession guillotine Cutting back on intelligence and efficient approaches to managing your assets is never a good idea. What did you do on your vacation? Use your summer to help fight the maintenance crisis. Calling all "Maintenance Gods", can you help? To help provide insight into major activities that must be fulfilled for success as a reliability professional, Joel Leonard will be providing an article outlining the Ten Commandments for Today's Reliability Pros. Do you have any suggestions? E-mail them to Joel Listen to the new NPR radio program about the maintenance crisis On this installment of "Weekend Virginia," host Fred Echols and guest Joel Leonard, the Maintenance Evangelist, explore the many manifestations of the skilled labor shortage, including its impact on the recent outbreak of swine flu. Follow Joel on • Students win manufacturing scholarships • Assessing the early effects of the economic crisis on the employment experiences of workers • Manufacturers donate funds to inspire the next generation of skilled workers • 3rd Annual Maintenance and Reliability Symposium • Reliable Plant 2009 Conference and Exhibition • 24th Annual Material Handling and Logistics Conference “The strive for perfection is usually stopped at 'good enough.'” ¾ Rex Gallaher

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