After a two-year hiatus, TRSA’s 29th Annual Maintenance Management Institute (MMI) returned on Oct. 12-14. Forty attendees gathered near O’Hare Airport in Rosemont, IL, for the industry’s longest-running and most-recognized maintenance-management and technology-development program.

Steve Rowell, president, Accelerated Ventures, and a seasoned keynote speaker and consultant, kicked off with an interactive session showing engineering leaders how they must adapt to succeed. He included a group exercise using a helium stick that demonstrated the importance of teamwork.

Joel Bell, senior manager of reliability and maintenance, UniFirst Corp., led a general plant safety session on the topic of lock out/tag out. Another ...