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VOICE FROM THE FIELD
Art Meets
Reliability Science
Lawrence Gardner uses his artistic background to craft well-designed reliability
and maintenance programs for the Univ. of South Alabama Medical Center.
Michelle Segrest, Contributing Editor
EACH DAY, LAWRENCE GARDNER looks at a blank
canvas and finds new ways to paint a masterpiece. Whether it's
sketching a plan that creates more space for beds in a trauma
center or designing effective preparedness plans for intense
weather events that can attack the Southeastern Gulf Coast,
Gardner finds a way to make the brush strokes blend together.
Gardner once had aspirations of becoming a civil engineer,
but it didn't take long into his first calculus class for him to
decide to switch gears. He is artistic and loves to sketch, paint,
and create silk-screen designs and ceramic sculptures, so his
career pursuit took a dramatic turn.
He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Art Education degrees and became an art teacher. The career suited him,
but earning enough money to support his wife and four sons
became an impossible task. The solution was to combine his
engineering goals with his artistic talent. Now, after 32 years as
a reliability and maintenance professional at the Univ. of South
Alabama (USA) Medical Center, Mobile, the director of facilities
management flexes his artistic muscles in a different way.
"Every day I am designing, sketching, and drawing plans for
different projects," the 65-yr.-old said of his job with the center.
"We do many renovations in an organization like this. We are
constantly creating plans to send to a draftsman, who then
creates a CAD file for contractors or for our own staff to use. I
use my art degree every day."
While the career path was different than most reliability and
maintenance professionals, it has helped Gardner be diverse and
creative in his primary responsibility of daily problem solving for
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the facilities that make up the 525,000-sq.-ft. campus.
"I feel like every step in my career path has been directed
at getting me to a level of competencies and skill sets that are
perfect for this job that I have today," Gardner said. "Facilities
management is not that far a cry from being an artist or an art
teacher. It depends on what part of your mind you need to use.
When it comes to managing people, I use different types of
motivation to push people to the maximum of their competencies. It's important to me that every person on my staff has the
opportunity to excel to their greatest potential."
Life and death management
The USA Medical Center is a Level 1 trauma center for the
southwest-Alabama region, in particular the Mobile Bay
area and southern Mississippi. The next closest Level 1
trauma center is the Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham, located
nearly 300 miles north. The USA facility is also the regional
burn-treatment center, including occupational and physical
therapy.
The medical center was originally built in the 1960s as a
county general hospital. The university purchased it from
Mobile County around 1975. The goal was for the hospital to
integrate its medical school students and have attending physicians who would double as associate professors in the College of
Medicine. The campus also includes a facility formerly known
as Providence Hospital. It covers another 500,000 sq. ft. of
physician offices and clinics.
Gardner is responsible for anything that has to do with the
SEPTEMBER 2016
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Maintenance Technology September 2016
Editorial
Uptime
On The Floor
Old-School Approach To New-World Technology
Art Meets Reliability Science
Commit To Safety
Robot-Human Interaction Getting Safer
Sanitary, Stainless Conveyors Not The Same
Reduce Hidden Process-Safety Costs
Pace Your Reliability Program
Win The War With 'Lubrication By Design'
SAP Tips And Tricks
Understand Pump Vibration
Select The Right Relay
Bearing Care
Clear Up HOA Confusion
Potato Waste Becomes Clean Water, Energy
Products
Showcase
Ad Index
Final Thought
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Editorial
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Uptime
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - On The Floor
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Old-School Approach To New-World Technology
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Art Meets Reliability Science
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Commit To Safety
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Robot-Human Interaction Getting Safer
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Sanitary, Stainless Conveyors Not The Same
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Reduce Hidden Process-Safety Costs
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Pace Your Reliability Program
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Win The War With 'Lubrication By Design'
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - SAP Tips And Tricks
Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Understand Pump Vibration
Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Select The Right Relay
Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Bearing Care
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Clear Up HOA Confusion
Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Potato Waste Becomes Clean Water, Energy
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Maintenance Technology September 2016 - Final Thought
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