Shane 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 [...]

Doug 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 [...]

Bob 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 [...]

Tim interviews Ray about professional development, which is the focus of The Manufacturing Academy.

John 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 [...]

Tom 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 [...]

Bob 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 [...]

Andrew 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 [...]

Jim 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 [...]

DTK 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 [...]

Lucy 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 [...]

Eric 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 [...]

DTK 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 [...]

DTK 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 [...]

Alex 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 [...]

Simon 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 [...]

Harry 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 [...]

Steven 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 [...]

Anne 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 [...]

Doug 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 [...]

Dr 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 [...]

Dr. 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 [...]

Rob 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 [...]

Kevin 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 [...]