Reliability Hero
Hosted by Andrew Daddo, the Reliability Hero podcast is brought to you by the MAINSTREAM Community. We’ll have conversations with maintenance and reliability practitioners.Whether you take Iron Ore out the ground; keep Power plants running; or fix Aeroplanes, Trains, Conveyor Belts or Turbines – few things excite YOU more than making equipment and machines do more than they were ever designed to do – faster, safer, longer, and more efficiently.Let’s just say that YOU keeping economies moving!
Reliability Hero
Reliability in Motion: Ed Welch's Journey Through Toyota
In this episode of Reliability Hero, host Andrew Daddo interviews Ed Welch, an adjunct instructor at the University of Kentucky and former engineering and maintenance manager at Toyota. Welch shares his journey from being laid off during the oil and gas crisis to his transformative career at Toyota. He discusses the cultural shift he experienced, moving from a 'me first' American mindset to Toyota's team-first, consensus-driven Japanese approach. Key topics include the importance of continuous improvement, developing a 'Kaizen eye' for inefficiencies, the role of maintenance in modern industry, and fostering a cooperative work environment. Welsh’s insights highlight that maintenance is not just about machines, but also about people and culture.