About On Paper
A publication about how US plants really run, across quality, operations, maintenance, safety and continuous improvement, told by the people who run them.
Why it exists
Plants run on procedures, audits and forms. They keep running because of people who know where the paper and the floor disagree. In the industry’s podcasts, the most frequent guests are consultants and vendors. On Paper is where the leaders who run plants talk, and where we write down what they teach.
What we publish
Conversations.
Twenty minutes with a leader who runs a plant or a production system. Every guest gets the same question: how do you know your system works between assessments? Then we ask for scenes.
Field notes.
Short pieces on what the floor says in public. Every note links its sources.
The answers.
When enough guests have answered the question, we publish what the answers add up to.
How we work
Sources, linked.
Every note is built on public sources and links each one. When a figure comes from a vendor, we say so next to it.
Guests approve the cut.
Nothing goes out until the guest and their communications team approve it. We record only with a signed release.
No pitch.
SmartHow presents the show and stays out of the answers. When a guest’s company is a SmartHow customer or partner, we say so.
Corrections.
If we got something wrong, write to us. We fix it and say what changed at the end of the piece.
Who makes it
- Host
- Gabriel GonçalvesCEO of SmartHow, in San Francisco
- Editor
- Samuel VelosoMarketing at SmartHow
- Presented by
- SmartHowSoftware for plant management systems
Write to us
Ideas for a note, a correction, or a plant worth a conversation.