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Breaking Ground - A CheckProof Podcast · Dec 17, 2025 · 33 min

5. The Engineering Mindset: Driving Safety & Reliability

Tom O'Boyle, Project and Engineering Manager at Heidelberg Materials, shares insights on using data to find hidden downtime, fostering team collaboration, and the importance of design in reliability. ⏱ CHAPTERS: 01:49 - Reliable Plant Is Safe 04:18 - Reliability Starts at Design 08:28 - Balancing Production and Maintenance 20:42 - Fundamentals of Maintenance Engineering 32:05 - Avoid Project Scope Drift Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4lELHDWupmmPCUDhRBuUpT?si=ZcFCiFvbQm6wau8xabyqhA&nd=1&dlsi=76a3723e36a148ad Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-ground-a-checkproof-podcast/id1822236486 Visit our website: checkproof.com Follow us on LinkedIn: CheckProof Subscribe and leave a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Tom O'Boyle, Project and Engineering Manager at Heidelberg Materials, shares insights on using data to find hidden downtime, fostering team collaboration, and the importance of design in reliability.


⏱ CHAPTERS:

01:49 - Reliable Plant Is Safe

04:18 - Reliability Starts at Design

08:28 - Balancing Production and Maintenance

20:42 - Fundamentals of Maintenance Engineering

32:05 - Avoid Project Scope Drift

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4lELHDWupmmPCUDhRBuUpT?si=ZcFCiFvbQm6wau8xabyqhA&nd=1&dlsi=76a3723e36a148ad

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-ground-a-checkproof-podcast/id1822236486


Visit our website: checkproof.com

Follow us on LinkedIn: CheckProof

Subscribe and leave a review!


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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