Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast

How Too Much Data, Dashboards and RCA Complicate Reliability Strategy (Ask A Plant Manager)

September 3, 2026·13 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Joe Kuhn, CMRP, former plant manager, engineer, and global reliability consultant, is now president of Lean Driven Reliability LLC. He is the author of the book “Zero to Hero: How to Jumpstart Your Reliability Journey Given Today’s Business Challenges” and the creator of the Joe Kuhn YouTube Channel, which offers content on starting your reliability journey and achieving financial independence. In our monthly podcast miniseries, Ask a Plant Manager, Joe considers a commonplace scenario facing the industry and offers his advice, as well as actions that you can take to get on track tomorrow. This episode is our rapid-fire series where Joe tackles five diferent scenarios and provides five quick fixes. Listen to Joe discuss the traps of too much data and too weak a culture. First, I make him laugh, but tune in to see which scenario gets Joe all riled up!

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