Dare to Know: Interviews with Quality and Reliability Thought Leaders | Hosted by Tim Rodgers

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 […]

Ryan 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 […]

Wayne 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, […]

Kellie 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 […]

Dennis 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, […]

Chris 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 […]

Larry 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 […]

Jim 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 […]

Les 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 […]

Lance 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 […]

John 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 […]

Joel 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 […]

Gerald 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 […]

Frank 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 […]

David 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 […]

Ann 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 […]

Alec 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 […]

Nihal 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 […]

Rick 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, […]

Duke 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 […]

Dev 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 […]

Aaron 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 […]

Greg 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 […]

Pantelis 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 […]

Perry is the founder and owner of Perrys Solutions, which was created to help companies achieve product and process breakthroughs using Design of Experiments. Join Tim Rodgers as he interviews Perry Parendo concerning Perry's work with clients working to bring new products to market.

Jon 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 […]

Jay 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 […]