As we continue the maintenance and management communication issue, we will now explore the history of unions and the development of professional management. This takes us through the past century up to where we are now.

The next installment of the Penrose Lecture Series

To truly understand the maintenance and management communication issue, you need to understand the history. In this week's podcast, we will start with a discussion of the guild, the precursor to organized management and labor prior to the industrial revolution.

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In this edition of the Penrose Lecture Series we will conclude the Skilled Workforce study and begin discussion of the Maintenance and Management Communication Study. This study will explore the concept of maintenance being from Mercury and management from Pluto, the root cause of communication issues and solutions.

The seventh installment of: Penrose Lecture Series Communications 1

We were asked to predict a vision for the reliability and maintenance workforce for 2016. In this 9:50 min podcast, we discuss this near-future based upon the skilled workforce study. For questions to be answered during the first two weeks of August, 2006, please email howard@motordoc.net.

Here is the sixth installment: Skilled Workforce in the 21st Century Part 6

We will cover the conclusions of the Skilled Workforce in the 21st Century Study which includes a description of the future skilled R&M workforce, management recommendations and the risk of not evolving with 21st Century changes. For questions to be answered during the first two weeks of August, 2006, please email howard@motordoc.net.

Here is the fifth installment: Skilled Workforce in the 21st Century Part 5