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Episode 15: Don Yates

Doug Plucknette | Contributing Host, RELIABILITY CONNECT

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Welcome to Episode 15 of The Leadership Connection! On today’s episode…

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Don Yates in Episode 15 of this series. Mr. Donald Yates is a senior manufacturing executive with more than 40 years’ experience spearheading the rapid and sustained growth of leading manufacturing organizations. Mr. Yates gained his expertise in lean manufacturing by building effective teams, and formulating strategic reliability plans during his extraordinarily successful career in several leadership roles.

More about Don…

Mr. Donald Yates is a senior manufacturing executive with more than 40 years’ experience spearheading the rapid and sustained growth of leading manufacturing organizations. Mr. Yates gained his expertise in lean manufacturing by building effective teams, and formulating strategic reliability plans during his extraordinarily successful career in several leadership roles. Specifically in a long career of 29 years, Mr. Yates directed and managed Eastman Kodak’s Chemical Manufacturing Unit, was Plant Manager for the Polymer (PET) manufacturing Division. He was considered a pioneer in the utilization of CMMS, Predictive Maintenance, and Precision Maintenance Methodologies and is now considered a Subject Matter Expert. Mr. Yates has an extensive network of influential senior-level contacts in the manufacturing engineering and maintenance arena. He is a Certified Reliability Leader and Management Black Belt. A Graduate of Ohio Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering Technology.

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Doug Plucknette Contributing Host, RELIABILITY CONNECT

Doug Plucknette has been in the Field of Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability for 38 years. In 1999 he founded Reliability Solutions Inc. As the founder of RCM Blitz™ and author of the book Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz™, he has provided reliability training and consulting services to numerous companies around the world, large and small, including such Fortune 500 companies as Cargill, Whirlpool, Honda, Kraft-Heinz, Schlumberger, Corning, Invista, and Newmont Mining.
Doug has made key contributions to standard reliability measures for manufacturing, and reliability training programs worldwide. He has trained numerous client RCM Facilitators and performed RCM analyses on hundreds of pieces of manufacturing equipment.
Prior to his work as a consultant, Doug worked 19 years at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY in positions as a skilled tradesperson, lead person, Maintenance Supervisor, and Reliability Engineer.
Recognized as an Industry Expert, Doug has published over 50 articles, written two books, has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences and Key Note Speaker for two Global Reliability Conferences.