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Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Shane Turcott AuthorShane Turcott Author
Tim interviews Shane about his new book, “Decoding Mechanical Failure”, how physical evidence from a failed part can suggest specific kinds of failures, and situations where the data might point in one direction but the physical evidence point in a different direction.
Shane Turcott is a metallurgical engineer and a Canadian Professional Engineer specializing in laboratory-based failure analysis. His work provides physical evidence and support to reliability engineers conducting RCA investigation throughout the refining, mining and energy industries. He's worked for various companies including Dofasco, Bodycote and Liburdi Turbine Services.
I...
2020-11-0900 min
Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Doug Lehr Business LeaderDoug Lehr Business Leader
Tim interviews Doug about new product development, risk mitigation or avoidance vs. the cost of an uncertain future event, and successful FMEAs.
Doug Lehr is the Founder and Principal of Integris Technology Services LLC. He has over 41 years of experience in the development of downhole tools for oil and gas wells and has built a track record of success in technical management, innovation, and industry leadership.
In this episode, Tim and Doug discuss:
Advice Doug would give to reliability engineers who participate in new product development.
When...
2020-10-2800 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Bob Latino AuthorBob Latino Author
Tim interviews Bob about EasyRCA, Reliability and Safety.
Robert Latino is the CEO of Reliability Center, which is a 46 year old reliability consulting firm specializing in improving equipment, process, and human reliability. Bob is an internationally recognized author, trainer, software developer and practitioner of best practices in the field of reliability engineering with a specialty in root cause analysis.
In this episode, Tim and Bob discuss:
What is Bob’s new EasyRCA software solution.
Bob’s blog article titled, “Defining Root Cause Analysis”.
Reliability vs Safety.
How we can desi...
2020-10-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Ray Harkins Business LeaderRay Harkins Business Leader
Tim interviews Ray about professional development, which is the focus of The Manufacturing Academy.
Ray Harkins is a senior manufacturing professional with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, quality management, and business analytics. He's written extensively for national trade publications, and he founded The Manufacturing Academy where he's taught over 11,000 students on the topics of quality engineering, business finance, and career management.
In this episode, Tim and Ray discuss:
What is The Manufacturing Academy and how it got started
The evolution of continuing education for m...
2020-09-2400 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK John Ayers AuthorJohn Ayers Author
Tim interviews John about project risk management, which is the topic of John’s new book by the same title.
John Ayers is a consultant and the author of Project Risk Management: How to Avoid Failure, which is part of the CERM Academy Series on Enterprise Risk Management.
John earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Engineering Management from Northeastern University. He has extensive experience working in both commercial and defense companies. He has managed numerous large high-tech development programs valued at more than $100M.
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2020-02-2900 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Tim Moriarty AuthorTom Moriarty Author
Tim interviews Tom, they discuss the topic of productive leadership with respect to organizational reliability.
Tom Moriarty is president of Alidade Maintenance Engineering and Reliability, Inc. (Alidade MER). Founded in 2004, its mission is to help others lead full and satisfying lives through physical asset management and productive leadership principles.
Tom became a member of the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals in 2002 and is currently the Government Relations Committee Chairman, a Florida Chapter Board Member, the Florida Central East District Director and a CMRP since 2003. He has various cr...
2020-02-1500 min
Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Bob Latino ConsultantBob Latino Consultant
Tim interviews Bob Latino, they discuss the difference between safety and reliability, zero metrics, and RCA.
Robert Latino is the CEO of Reliability Center, which is a 46 year old reliability consulting firm specializing in improving equipment, process, and human reliability. Bob is an internationally recognized author, trainer, software developer and practitioner of best practices in the field of reliability engineering with a specialty in root cause analysis.
In this episode, Tim and Andy discuss:
Why we shouldn’t assume a direct correlation between safety and reliability
The cont...
2020-02-0100 min
Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Andrew Russell ScholarAndrew Russell Scholar
Tim interviews Andrew Russell, a bit of the history of science and technology, and the upcoming Maintainers III conference.
Andrew Russell is Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica and Albany New York. He is a historian of technology who has published a number of books and articles on the history of the Internet, the history of standards development in the US and Europe, and the tensions and synergies between innovation and maintenance. He earned his Ph.D. from the Program in the History o...
2019-09-2800 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Jim McLinn ConsultantJim McLinn, Consultant
Tim interviews Jim McLinn, a consultant, about his background and the upcoming Reliability, Maintenance & Managing Risk Conference.
Jim McLinn is a reliability consultant at Rel-Tech in Phoenix. Jim has MS in Solid State Physics from the University of Minnesota and has worked in the semiconductor and biomedical industries. He has broad experience working to help companies become more competitive. During his career his responsibilities included reliability predictions, leading FMEA teams, running ALT and HALT tests and working with international subsidiaries.
Jim has served on the ASQ Reliability Division bo...
2019-08-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Mike KonradDTK Mike Konrad Business Leader
Tim Rodgers interviews Mike about circuit board cleaning systems.
Mike Konrad is an industry expert on the removal of contamination from circuit assemblies. He's been part of the electronic assembly cleaning industry for the past 33 years. Mike designed several automated cleaning and cleanliness testing machines, he's published scores of technical articles on the subject of cleaning and cleanliness assessment, and he's been a member of editorial boards for several industry publications.
Mike served on the US Navy's EMPF manufacturer's committee and is a featured speaker at industry...
2019-07-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersLucy Freedman AuthorLucy Freedman Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Lucy concerning her book, Smart Work: The Syntax Guide to Influence concerning improving our ability to communicate well.
Lucy Freedman is a leadership educator and author of the book Smart Work: The Syntax Guide to Influence. She identified the fact that many technical professionals and leaders are brilliant in their field but challenged when it comes to translating their expertise so that executives make better-informed decisions. She developed the Syntax for Change as a way to make sense out of human communication, and applies it wherever communication g...
2019-06-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersEric Arnum AuthorEric Arnum Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Eric concerning his online newsletter, Warranty Week, concerning his ongoing reporting on the warranty industry.
Eric is the editor of an online newsletter called Warranty Week. It's aimed at people in the business the manufacturers making the products that get the warranties, the retailers and dealers that sell the products and also the extended warranties that go with them, and the administrators and insurance companies that work with those manufacturers and retailers to manage the paperwork. It's currently published as a weekly email on Thursday nights to over...
2019-06-0100 min
Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Rob Kalwarowsky EngineerDTK Rob Kalwarowsky Engineer
Tim Rodgers interviews Rob about maintenance management system.
Rob Kalwarowsky is a senior reliability engineer currently looking for new opportunities while hosting the podcast Rob's Reliability Project. From 2014-19 Rob worked at Fluid Life and focused on machine learning, lubrication and reliability audits, and reliability product development. Before that, Rob worked as a reliability engineer at Teck Resources and his work focused on condition-based monitoring analytics, failure prediction, risk analysis, and spare parts optimization. He also has consulting experience in financial modeling with an emphasis on optimization and cost-benefit analysis.
2019-04-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Ryan Chan Business LeaderDTK Ryan Chan Business Leader
Tim Rodgers interviews Ryan about maintenance management system.
Ryan Chan is the CEO and founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. He's a chemical engineer from UC Berkeley and was named one of Forbes Under 30 for Manufacturing in 2018. Ryan says that he started UpKeep out of passion and frustration by the lack of mobility in today's maintenance management software. UpKeep has been deployed to over 1000 businesses and is a leader in mobile-first maintenance management software.
In this episode, Ryan and Tim discuss:
What is maintenance management
Adoption and u...
2019-04-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Alex Walter Business LeaderAlex Walter, Business Leader, A3J Group
Tim Rodgers interviews Alex about conditioned based maintenance.
Alex is the Chief Innovation Officer at the A3J Group in Tampa, Florida, which is a company he founded to address the need for innovative software solutions within the Enterprise Asset Management industry. Alex brings over 18 years of experience in business consulting in various industries, including life sciences, oil and gas, water and waste management, education, and government facilities.
Alex's previous roles include senior vice president and vice president of software development and products at EDI...
2018-12-0200 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Simon Whiteley ConsultantSimon Whiteley, Consultant
Tim interviews Simon Whiteley, a consultant, about his background and ongoing work in the field of system safety engineering.
Simon is an independent system safety engineering consultant and managing director at Whiteley Aerospace Safety Engineering & Management, Limited. He's worked as a system safety engineer across the entire product and project lifecycle and with a variety of industries, including civil and defense aerospace, air traffic control, weapons systems, armored automotive, maritime and nuclear defense, healthcare, government IT, pharmaceuticals, and most recently rail transportation.
Simon offers consulting, training, coaching and s...
2018-06-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersHarry McLean AuthorHarry McLean Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Harry concerning his book, HALT, HASS, and HASA Explained: Accelerated Reliability Techniques, Revised Edition concerning the application of HALT in product development.
Harry is a consultant at Harry's Reliability Engineering in Vancouver Washington. Harry spent most of his career with Hewlett-Packard where he held various positions in production, research and development, and quality and reliability engineering.
His career includes working as a Project Research and Development Manager at Qualmark, Quality Systems and Reliability Engineering Manager at AT&T Wireless, Reliability Engineering Manager at Xantrex Technology...
2018-06-0300 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Steven Wachs ConsultantSteven Wachs, Consultant
Tim interviews Steven Wachs, a consultant, about his background and ongoing work as a statistician and consultant.
Steven has 30 years of wide-ranging industry experience in both technical and management positions. He's worked as a statistician at Ford Motor Company where has extensive experience in the development of statistical models, reliability analysis, designed experimentation, and statistical process control.
Steve is currently a Principal Statistician at Integral Concepts, Inc. where he assists manufacturers in the application of statistical methods to reduce variation and improve quality and productivity. He also possesses e...
2018-04-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Anne Meixner ConsultantAnne Meixner, Consultant
Tim interviews Anne Meixner a consultant about her background and ongoing work concerning with testing analog and mixed signal devices.
Anne is the principal owner of The Engineers' Daughter LLC where she provides consulting on semiconductor test manufacturing and design for test. She has over 30 years of experience as an engineer and technical leader, including more than 20 years as a test technologist at Intel in Hillsboro Oregon, focusing on mixed signal and analog test methods. While at Intel she applied new test technologies to ease manufacturing test costs while maintaining o...
2018-03-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Doug Plucknette ConsultantDoug Plucknette, Consultant
Tim interviews Doug Plucknette a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and RCM Blitz®.
Doug is a consultant, trainer, and practitioner at Allied Reliability Group in Rochester, NY. Doug started in the pipefitter apprentice program at Eastman Kodak in 1981 and worked his way up to become a maintenance supervisor and reliability engineer. He left Kodak in 1999 and founded Reliability Solutions, Inc., consulting on Reliability Centered Maintenance. He joined Allied Reliability Group in 2007.
Doug is the author of Reliability Centered Maintenance Using RCM Blitz and Cl...
2018-03-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Dr Mohammad Modarres ScholarDr Mohammad Modarres, Scholar
Tim interviews Dr. Mohammad Modarres about the Center for Risk and Reliability at the U of Maryland and the value of an advanced degree in reliability.
Dr. Modarres is the Nicole Y. Kim Eminent Professor at the University of Maryland's AJ Clark School of Engineering, and the Director for the Center of Risk and Reliability. Under his leadership, the university's reliability engineering graduate program has grown to become an internationally-recognized center for research and education, and has graduated over 400 Masters and Ph.D's in risk and reliability.
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2018-02-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Dr Kishor TrivediDr. Kishor Trivedi, Scholar
Tim interviews Dr. Kishor Trivedi about his teaching and writing in the area of reliability and available engineering.
Dr. Trivedi is the Hudson Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He's been on the Duke faculty since 1975. Dr. Trivedi has served as a principal investigator on various projects, including projects funded by DARPA, IBM, Motorola, Boeing, NASA, NIH, NSF, NATO, and JPL, and he regularly works as a consultant to industry and research laboratories.
Dr. Trivedi is the c...
2018-02-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Rob Allen ConsultantRob Allen, Consultant
Tim interviews Rob Allen a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and phase gate product development processes.
Rob has over 25 years of professional experience in the areas of product development, process improvement, and project management. He was a key contributor to numerous deployments of lean sigma and project management organizations, most notably with Honeywell and TE Connectivity.
Rob has achieved success in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, medical devices, consumer electronics, printed circuit boards, and small enterprise manufacturing. Rob helps bu...
2018-01-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Kevin Stewart ConsultantKevin Stewart, Consultant
Tim interviews Kevin Stewart a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning root cause analysis.
Kevin is an experienced educator and maintenance/reliability professional with 39 years of practical work experience in a variety of roles for ALCOA Primary Metals Group and ARMS Reliability. At ALCOA Kevin initially worked as a plant engineer and moved on to become the Corporate Reliability Manager and Reliability Consultant for the Primary Metals division. After leaving ALCOA he became the lead RCA trainer for ARMS Reliability.
In 2016, Kevin founded KPS Re...
2017-12-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersRyan Van Fleet EngineerRyan Van Fleet, Engineer
Fred interviews Ryan Van Fleet, a product engineer at Relyence about his career and reliability software.
Ryan is originally from and currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Penn State University, studied computer engineering, and has taken his knowledge of software to the reliability engineering field. Ryan's introduction to this field came with his position as a Quality Assurance Analyst with Relex Software Corporation, which later was acquired by PTC.
Next, he took a position as an IT Project Manager with General Electric's Transportation division where he i...
2017-11-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersWayne Nelson AuthorWayne Nelson, Author
Fred interviews Wayne Nelson, fellow, author, consultant about his career, books, and statistics.
Wayne Nelson consults on diverse applications of engineering data analysis to extract information that improves products. In addition to being a leading expert in the collection and analysis of product reliability data from field service, laboratory tests, and accelerated tests, Dr. Nelson is skilled in statistical analysis and modeling of data on measurement errors, and data from designed experiments and from samples from populations. At General Electric R&D from 1965 to 1989 and as a private consultant since, h...
2017-11-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Kellie Schneider ScholarKellie Schneider, Scholar
Fred interviews Kellie Schneider a RAMS tutorial committee member and assistant professor about her background and ongoing work with the RAMS conference.
Kellie Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Management, Systems, & Technology at the University of Dayton. Prior to joining the faculty at UD, she was an Instructor in the Freshman Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. She received her Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. all in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas. Her primary area of research is in repairable systems m...
2017-10-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Dennis Craggs ConsultantDennis Craggs, Consultant
Tim interviews Dennis Craggs a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning big data analytics.
Dennis studied at the University of Detroit and Wayne State University achieving a Masters in Engineering Mechanics and Operations Research. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, and a Quality and Reliability Engineer. In various roles at NASA, Teledyne CAE, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler, he worked in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mechanical and electrical design, test and development, and computer programming.
At NASA, he supported engineer test and development activities. At Teledyne C...
2017-10-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Chris Jackson ScholarChris Jackson, Scholar and Consultant
Tim interviews Chris concerning the academic work concerning decision making being built into autonomous vehicles.
Chris is the Chief Operating Officer for SARAS, the Center for the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Systems in Los Angeles, California, and he's also the acting director of the Center of Reliability and Resilience Engineering at the B. John Garrick Institute of Risk Sciences at UCLA. Chris is the director at Acuitas Reliability in Canberra, Australia, which provides technical consulting in reliability, availability, and maintainability. Chris has a Ph.D. in reliability engineering from...
2017-09-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Larry Leemis ScholarLarry Leemis, Scholar and Author
Fred interviews Larry Leemis about his teaching, work, and recent book on R software.
Lawrence Leemis is a professor in the Mathematics Department at the College of William and Mary. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
He has also taught courses at Purdue University, The University of Oklahoma, and Baylor University.
His consulting, short course and research contract work includes contracts with AT&T, NASA/Langley Research Center, Delco E...
2017-08-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Jim McLinn ASTR ConferenceJim McLinn ASTR Conference
Fred interviews Jim McLinn about the annual ASTR conference.
2017 Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability (ASTR) Conference
Sponsored by IEEE Reliability Society and ASQ Reliability Division
Exceeding Customer Expectations Through Accelerated Life Testing
September 27 29, 2017
Hilton Garden Inn Downtown, Austin, Texas 512 480-8181
www.ieee-astr.org
The 2017 Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability (ASTR) Conference is focused on highlighting cutting-edge methods to deliver maximum cost-benefits from accelerated reliability testing. ASTR 2017 is relevant to product development, test and manufacturers involved in the a...
2017-07-2800 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Les Warrington ConsultantLes Warrington, Consultant
Fred interviews Les Warrington a consultant about his background and ongoing work in reliability engineering.
Les has been dedicated to reliability and its benefits for over 30 years. His roles in this have been user, customer, design & development, manager, researcher, academic, trainer, and consultant.
Less believes that he have a unique and holistic expertise to grow individual and corporate capability, spanning mentoring, technical, managerial, and strategic spheres. He works with all sizes of business, from start-ups to multi-national, addressing their needs as part of both short and long-term projects....
2017-07-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Lance Fiondella - ScholarLance Fiondella, Scholar
Fred interviews Lance Fiondella about his work teaching reliability engineering concepts for practical use in software and an open source software modeling tool.
Lance Fiondella is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his PhD (2012) in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Fiondella’s research interests include the reliability and risk assessment of software, systems, and networks. He has supervised four MS theses and is the advisor of four PhD students.
In this episode, Fred...
2017-07-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK John Paschkewitz ScholarJohn Paschkewitz, Author
Fred interviews John Paschkewitz a consultant, author, and engineer presents a very popular tutorial at RAMS each year. The title of Accelerated Reliability includes accelerated life testing and other forms of acceleration based experiments.
John Paschkewitz has over 41 years' experience in product assurance, testing, reliability and sustaining engineering in several industries. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a M.A. in Business Management from Central Michigan University. He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College Program Management Course. He is...
2017-06-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Joel Nachlas - AuthorJoel Nachlas, Scholar
Fred interviews Joel Nachlas an author and the editor of the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium proceedings. He was also an associate professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at Virginia Tech.
Dr. Joel A. Nachlas, who retired from his Associate Professor position in March 2016, was conferred the title of Associate Professor Emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in April. He joined the department's emeritus faculty which has more than 15 members.
Dr. Nachlas was a VT ISE faculty member for the past 41 years. After earning his...
2017-06-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersGerald CohenGerald Cohen, Consultant
Fred interviews Gerald Cohen a consultant with Ops A La Carte talks about his career and his early work in hybrid ceramic components for the Gemini space program and more.
Gerard (Gerry) Cohen has nearly 40 years of hands-on professional experience in managing Reliability Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Product Assurance Engineering for various facets of the High-Tech industry both in the US and overseas.
He has held titles of Corporate Director, Director, and Principal Engineer for such companies as Seagate, Western Digital, Invensys Power Systems, Capstone Turbine, and Maxwell...
2017-05-1500 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersFrank SunFrank Sun, Engineer
Fred interviews Frank Sun an engineer with a wealth of experience and talent. Besides working full time, he has two books 40+ technical papers, produces a Mandarin language webinar program, and volunteers in leadership positions with professional societies.
Coming with extensive education and training in electro-mechanical and reliability engineering and many years of academia and industry working experience, Dr. Sun is a highly respected reliability expert in the field. His expertise and interests cover wide range of areas of both theoretical and practical applications of quality and reliability disciplines including:
2017-05-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDavid NichollsDavid Nicholls, Engineer
Fred interviews David Nicholls, an engineer Quanterion and Director of the RMQSI Knowledge Center about his work supporting reliability engineers world wide. David Nicholls has been sharing reliability knowledge for years – we talk about the evolution of sharing knowledge and why it’s still important.
Mr. Nicholls has over 35 years of research and experience in reliability engineering, quality assurance and technical information management. He is currently the Director of Quanterion's RMQSI Knowledge Center, drawing from his many years' experience as the Operations Manager of the DoD Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC...
2017-04-1400 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersAnn Marie Neufeder AuthorAnn Marie Neufeder, Author
Fred interviews Ann Marie an author and consultant concerning her work in the field of software reliability.
Ann Marie has spent 30 years in the software engineering field as a software engineer and manager. She knows first hand what works and does not work with regards to delivering software on time, within budget and with the desired functionality and reliability.
Ann Marie has used my decades of software engineering experience to develop a means to predict software defects before the code is even written. She is able to d...
2017-03-0100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersAlec Feinberg AuthorAlec Feinberg, Author
Fred interviews Alec Feinberg an author, scientist, engineer, and consultant.
Dr. Alec Feinberg is the founder of DfRSoft. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and is the principal author of the book, Design for Reliability. A practical book for the DfR process using a stage gate approach.
Alec is also the principal developer for DfRSoftware which is the most thorough reliability design tool currently available (free trial at DfRSoft.com). Alec experience has allowed him to provide extensive reliability engineering services in all areas (AT&T Bell...
2017-02-1400 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersNihal Sinnadurai Foundations ProgramNihal Sinnadurai, Engineer
Tim interviews Nihal Sinnadurai an engineer and organizer of the 1st and 2nd Foundation program.
Professor Doctor Nihal Sinnadurai is the CEO and Chief Technologist of Advanced Technology Transfer Associates, Chair of IEEE's Action for Industry and past Chair of IEEE UK and Ireland. He was formerly Global VP of Reliability and Quality and Corporate Director at Bookham (now Oclaro). He received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award by the IEEE Reliability Society, and the 2011 International Award and 2003 Outstanding Achievement Award by the International Microelectronics Society.
Dr. Sinnadurai's innovations include t...
2016-11-1000 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersRick Wong EngineerRick Wong, Engineer
Tim interviews Rick Wong an engineer and organizer of the IEEE CPMT Soft Error Rate Workshop.
Rick received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University and his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley. He has over 30 years of industry experience. He joined Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA in 2006 and has been engaged in IC component technology reliability assurance, SEU, WLR, ESD, failure analysis and reliability modeling. Prior to Cisco, he had worked on ASICs, FPGAs, TCAMs and memories. He has 18 patents and o...
2016-10-2200 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDuke Okes Consultant AplometDuke Okes, Consultant
Tim Rodgers intervies Duke Okes a quality consultant with Aplomet.
Duke is the owner and knowledge architect at APLOMET, specializing in quality management. He has been in private practice since 1985 working with organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He was formerly a quality professional in TRW’s automotive sector.
Duke has been elected Fellow of the American Society for Quality and is certified by ASQ as a manager of quality/organizational excellence, quality engineer and quality auditor. He has taught review courses for ASQ’s CMQ/OE...
2016-09-1100 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDev Raheja, AuthorDev Raheja, Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Dev concerning his book, Safer Hospital Care concerning the application of quality and reliability practices in hospitals.
Dev is an internationally recognized consultant and educator with expertise in risk management, quality, safety, and reliability in healthcare, medical devices, automotive, and aerospace fields. With over 25 years of experience as a consultant, he is the author of the books Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation, and Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices.
He has taught safety and reliability courses for the Society for Automotive Engineers, University of...
2016-08-0727 min
Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersAaron Spearin PodcasterAaron Spearin, Podcaster
Tim Rodgers interviews Aaron concerning his podcast, E6S Methods Podcast concerning the application of lean and six sigma methods and the real-life challenges faced by quality professionals.
Aaron Spearin is currently a customer experience architect at Verizon in Basking Ridge, New Jersey where he’s working to improve the effectiveness of new product development processes.
He has over 10 years of experience leading process improvement projects as a six sigma black belt and master black belt in the automotive, chemical, and semiconductor markets.
Aaron has developed an...
2016-07-1527 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersGreg Hutchins Author CERM AcademyGreg Hutchins, Author, CERM Academy
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Greg about the emergence of risk across the quality field. Along with the changing nature of work we’re experiencing in nearly every field.
Greg Hutchins PE CERM is the founder of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager (CERM) Academy (CERMAcademy.com) and Working it (Workingit.com).
He is the evangelist of the Future of Quality: Risk. He recently authored ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management, ISO: Risk Based Thinking and Value Added Auditing, which is the basis for the CERM certificate.
He can be reached at 800...
2016-06-0129 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Pantelis Vassiliou Business LeaderPantelis Vassiliou, Business Leader, Vassiliou Ventures
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Pantelis about his career and future.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Pantelis Vassiliou served as the President & CEO of ReliaSoft Corporation, a company he founded in 1992 while in the Ph.D. program in Reliability Engineering at the University of Arizona.
In 2015 ReliaSoft was acquired by Spectris PLC, and as part of the transition...
2016-05-1519 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersPerry Parendo, ConsultantPerry Parendo, Perry’s Solutions, Inc. Consultant
Tim Rodgers interviews Perry Parendo concerning Perry’s work with clients working to bring new products to market.
Perry is the founder and owner of Perry’s Solutions, which was created to help companies achieve product and process breakthroughs using Design of Experiments.
He began developing and obtaining results from DOE at the General Motors Research Labs in 1986 and has been helping to develop the next generation of experts through his teaching at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota since 1996.
Perry has...
2016-05-0123 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Jon Elerath ConsultantJon Elerath, Consultant, Elerath Reliability Consulting
Fred Schenkelberg interview Jon about his career and consulting.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Just like many other Reliability consultants, Jon has a breadth of experiences in the use of reliability techniques, such as FMEA, predictions and reliability testing.
Unlike most others, he has several strengths that are not as common.
System Modeling
Reliability without re...
2016-04-2625 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Jay Muns Business LeaderJay Muns, Business Leader, Ops A La Carte
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Jay about his past work and current ownership and general manager role at Ops A La Carte.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Jay brings us 35 years of experience in high tech industries including semiconductors, systems, CAD, and Electronic Design Services.
He has worked on a wide range of product disciplines including...
2016-04-1923 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Diganta Das ScholarDiganta Das, University of Maryland CALCE
Tim Rodgers interviews Diganta Das concerning Diganta’s work at CALCE on physics of failure modeling.
Diganta works for the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland.
He is an associate editor of the Elsevier Journal of Microelectronics Reliability. His work with the center includes an emphasis on the educational aspects of the center – as part of the University curriculum and professional development.
He is a Science Fellow of the MIRCE Akademy of UK and recipient of Distinguished Technical Member...
2016-04-1536 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Caroline Lubert ScholarCaroline Lubert, Scholar, James Madison University
Fred Schenkelberg and Andre Kleyner interviews Caroline Lubert about her work as a profession, and mostly about her work as the RAMS Tutorial Chair.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Caroline is a professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at James Madison University. She is also the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium Tutorial Program Chair.
S...
2016-04-0520 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Fred Schenkelberg BloggerFred Schenkelberg, Blogger
Tim Rodgers interviews Fred Schenkelberg concerning his blog, No MTBF and his mission to eradicate the common misuse of MTBF.
Fred Schenkelberg is a reliability engineering and management consultant at FMS Reliability. He's a lecturer at the University of Maryland, and he's been an active contributor to both the IEEE and the ASQ Reliability Divisions.
Fred re-established Hewlett Packard's corporate reliability program in the late 1990s, and also worked as a reliability consultant at Microsoft and a manufacturing engineer at Raychem.
In this episode, Fred Schenkelberg...
2016-04-0128 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Bill Tonti EngineerBill Tonti, Engineer, IEEE Future Directions
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Bill Tonti about his work and investing in the field of reliability engineering.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Bill is a 1978 graduate of Northeastern University, holding a BS in Electrical Engineering.
He joined IBM in Essex Junction Vermont where he has retired after 30+ years of service.
Bill pursued an MS in...
2016-03-2229 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Jezdimir Knezevic ScholarJezdimir Knezevic, MIRCE Akademy
Tim Rodgers interviews Jezdimir Knezevic concerning Dr. K’s pioneering work on the ability of systems to maintain functionality over time, named by him as function-ability.
Dr. Knezevic is the founder and president of the MIRCR Akademy in Exeter in the UK. He’s an internationally known researcher and educator with over 350 publications and numerous technical presentations.
Dr. K is best known for his formulation of MIRCE mechanics, which is the study of function-ability over the life of maintainable systems. He established the MIRCE Akademy in 1999, and under his...
2016-03-1526 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Jim McLinn ConsultantJim McLinn, Consultant, Ops A La Carte
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Jim McLinn about his work and volunteering in the field of reliability engineering.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Jim obtained an MS in Solid State Physics before working with the semiconductor industry. He has worked in biomedical companies as well as in appliance.
Here he gained broad experience in ways to help c...
2016-03-0833 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Allyson Hartzell ConsultantAllyson Hartzell, Veryst Engineering
Tim Rodgers interviews Allyson Hartzell concerning her recent book “MEMS Reliability,” co-authored with Mark Da Silva and Herb Shea.
Allyson Hartzell is a Managing Engineer at Veryst Engineering with more than three decades of professional experience in emerging technologies.
She’s an internationally recognized expert in MEMS reliability and has expertise in surface chemistry and analytical techniques for failure analysis. At Veryst she works with customers on reliability, failure analysis, root cause and corrective action, manufacturing problem solving and fundamental materials science.
Prior to joining Veryst, Allyso...
2016-03-0123 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Scott Abrams Business LeaderScott Abrams, Business Leader, Omnicon Group
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Scott Abrams about his work and leadership in the field of reliability engineering and design.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Scott B. Abrams is the founder, president and chief executive officer of The Omnicon Group, a worldwide engineering leader in designing, developing and delivering high-reliability products and systems.
Engineers at The Omnicon Group...
2016-02-2322 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Bill Meeker ScholarBill Meeker, Scholar and Author, Iowa State University
Fred Schenkelberg interviews Bill Meeker about his work and writing in the field of reliability engineering and statistics.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
William Meeker is Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University.
He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) the American Society...
2016-02-1620 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Wayne Tustin EngineerWayne Tustin, Equipment Reliability Institute
Tim Rodgers interviews Wayne Tustin concerning Wayne’s work over 60+ years including his company, Equipment Reliability Institute.
Wayne Tustin is the president of Equipment Reliability Institute.
He received his BSEE degree from the University of Washington in 1944 and he started at Boeing in 1948 where he was introduced to shock and vibration testing while working on an early version of the B-52 bomber.
He moved on to MB Electronics, which at that time was the world’s largest manufacturer of shakers for vibration testing. Wayne started trav...
2016-02-1525 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Wes Fulton Business LeaderWes Fulton, Founder and CEO, Fulton Findings
Fred Schenkelberg, a guest host, interviews Wes Fulton about his work, software, and promotion of Weibull analysis.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ.
Fred invited thought leaders to join him for a quick interview, thus please pardon the sounds of the conference in the background.]
Wes Fulton is founder/CEO of Fulton Findings and the creator of the first widely-used Weibull plotting software, currently known as SuperSMITH®.
He also wrote several special programs for s...
2016-02-0915 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK David Groebel EngineerDavid Groebel, Director of Software Development, ReliaSoft
Celine Geiger, a guest host, interviews David Groebel concerning David’s work at ReliaSoft bringing software products to market.
[Note: This is a bonus episode recorded at RAMS 2016 in Tucson, AZ. Celine and David started talking, and agreed to be recorded for the Dare to Know podcast.]
David Groebel serves as the Director of Software Development at ReliaSoft Corporation. Since 1997, he has been integral in the development of ReliaSoft’s software products.
In his previous role as the Director QA & Support, he was inst...
2016-02-0415 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Lou Gullo EngineerLou Gullo, IEEE RS Standards Chair
Tim Rodgers interviews Lou Gullo, concerning Lou’s work with the Reliability Society’s standards program.
Lou Gullo is Reliability Section Head and senior principal systems engineer at Raytheon, but a lot of people know him best as the IEEE Reliability Society Standards Chair and a member of the IEEE Reliability Society Administrative Committee.
He's also currently the secretary/treasurer of the RAMS Management Committee.
Lou has many years of experience as a reliability engineer and manager that includes positions at Texas Instruments, BAE Syst...
2016-02-0123 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Chris Peterson BloggerChris Peterson, Blogger
Tim Rodgers interviews Chris concerning her blog, Test To Be Your Best and her thoughts on today’s product testing.
Chris Peterson is an instructor at Technology Training, Inc. and others, with over 20 years of experience as a consultant and leader in climatic testing, including HALT and HASS.
Chris is also a past president of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, and she is the chair for three different IEST working groups.
She is a current committee member of the MIL-STD-810 editing team. Chris has be...
2016-01-1520 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Dan Deans EngineerDan Deans, RAMS® 2016 Chair
Tim Rodgers interviews Dan Deans, concerning Dan’s work as the Chair of the 62nd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium in 2016.
Dan Deans is the Vice President of Corporate Development of Millennium Engineering and Integration Company, responsible for business development, corporate marketing, and strategic planning.
Dan has worked in the reliability field with Ford Aerospace, NASA, Dow Chemical, Lam Research and now with Millennium Engineering.
He's also currently the Chair of the 62nd RAMS® held January 25-28, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona.
RAMS® is the premier event...
2016-01-0127 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Cliff Williams AuthorCliff Williams, Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Cliff concerning his book, People: A Reliability Success Story*, and his work with teams on ‘soft’ skills.
Cliff Williams is the author of People: A Reliability Success Story*.
He's been a contributing editor to MRO Magazine for 11 years, and he's a lecturer and frequent presenter at reliability conferences worldwide.
In this episode, Cliff Williams discusses:
Why it's important to develop soft people skills in reliability and testing
The role of HR departments, managers, and individuals in developing these skills
What organizations can do t...
2015-12-1522 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Kirk Gray ConsultantKirk Gray, Consultant
Tim Rodgers interviews Kirk Gray concerning his observations and advice concerning accelerated testing best practices.
Kirk Gray is the principal consultant with Accelerated Reliability Solutions and an instructor on HALT and HASS methods.
He has almost 30 years of experience in reliability testing, engineering, and management positions.
He was a senior reliability test engineer at Dell's desktop PC organization where he developed highly accelerated stress audit procedures for power supplies.
Kirk also co-authored an IEEE paper that describes the opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost...
2015-12-0117 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Carl Carlson AuthorCarl Carlson, Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Carl Carlson Effective FMEAs book* and his work with teams conducting FMEAs.
Carl Carlson is a consultant and instructor in the areas of FMEA and reliability program planning.
He's currently supporting clients of ReliaSoft with reliability and FMEA training and consulting.
Carl is the author of Effective FMEAs: Achieving Safe, Reliable, and Economical Products and Processes using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis*
He has 30 years of experience in reliability testing, engineering, and management positions.
He was a senior manager...
2015-11-1515 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Andy Drenick Business LeaderAndy Drenick, CEO and President Qualmark Corporation
Tim Rodgers interviews Andy concerning the role of the CEO concerning product reliability.
Andy Drenick is the CEO and President of Qualmark Corporation, which is the global leader in highly accelerated product testing services and systems.
Andy has over 20 years of experience as a design engineer, operations manager, and executive.
He holds a BS in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from Stanford University.
In this episode, Andy Drenick discusses:
Why CEOs and other senior leaders should care...
2015-11-0123 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Andre Kleyner AuthorAndre Kleyner, Author
Tim Rodgers interviews Andre Kleyner concerning Andre’s observations and advice concerning warranty, small sample data analysis, the current state of reliability education and more.
Andre Kleyner has over 30 years of engineering, research, consulting, and managerial experience specializing in the reliability of electronic and mechanical systems designed to operate in severe environments.
He's a global reliability engineering leader with Delphi Electronics and Safety, and an adjunct professor at Purdue University.
Andre is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality and has authored multiple publications and books....
2015-10-1534 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Adam Bahret ConsultantAdam Bahret, Consultant
Tim Rodgers interviews Adam Bahret concerning Adam’s observations and advice concerning testing best practices.
Adam Bahret is the owner and lead reliability engineer at Apex Ridge Reliability, a full-service consulting firm in Salem, Massachusetts.
Adam has worked as a reliability engineer and manager for over 20 years in a variety of industries, and he has built reliability engineering organizations from scratch. He has a BS and MS in mechanical engineering.
In this episode, Adam Bahret discusses:
Cultural differences and attitudes about reliability
The risks of using co...
2015-10-0125 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDTK Tongdan Jin Associate ProfessorTongdan Jin, Associate Professor
Tim Rodgers interviews Tongdan Jin concerning Tongdan’s work as an experienced reliability professional and associate professor at Texas State University.
Tongdan Jin is an associate professor at the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University.
He obtained his Ph.D. in industrial engineering, and an MS in electrical and computer engineering, both from Rutgers University in 2001. In addition, he has industry experience as a reliability engineer at Teradyne.
Tongdan's research interests focus on reliability modeling and optimization with applications in manufacturing, energy and supply ch...
2015-09-1538 minDare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim RodgersDavid OberhettingerDavid Oberhettinger – Chief Knowledge Officer, JPL
Tim Rodgers interviews David Oberhettinger, CKO JPL, concerning David’s work and approach to his role as Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
David is the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is the primary NASA field center for deep space exploration.
His additional duties at the JPL Office of the Chief Engineer include managing the JPL Engineering Standards Office and the JPL Spaceflight Engineering Research Program and chairing the JPL Lessons Learned Committee.
Fo...
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