
An Interview with April Johnson
In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have April Johnson, Maintenance Manager at Pepsico, on the show!
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In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have April Johnson, Maintenance Manager at Pepsico, on the show!
by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

The toolbox for reliability engineering work is large. We have tools for risk management, data analysis, failure analysis, team building, and more. We touch on material science at the molecular level and then shift to assessing a vendor’s reliability program when you use which tool is critical to your effectiveness. So, how do you determine which tool to use for a given situation?
Let’s explore a few different situations and step through the decision process to determine which tool to employ. You may need to learn how to use a new tool or set of skills, modify how you use an existing tool, or apply what you already know how to do. [Read more…]
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Bob Latino, Sanya Mathura, Cliff Williams, & Andy Gailey. We discuss maintenance and reliability, criticality analysis, and benchmarking.
You can connect with our guests here:
Bob Latino – https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-bob-latino-3411097/
Sanya Mathura – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanya-mathura-362438129/
Cliff Williams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliff-williams-camp-cmrp-mmp-crl-author-ba77b512/
Andy Gailey – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-gailey-13b09691/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/
Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
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Episode 47: A Conversation with Environmental Sustainability Expert Matthew Chalkley
Matthew Chalkley has over 26 years of supply chain experience in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Matthew has held a number of senior operational management positions within, engineering, manufacturing, materials management, procurement, and customer order fulfillment.
Matthew was the Global Program Manager for IBM’s Supply Chain Social & Environmental Management System and the Global Tactical Lead for IBM’s Center of Excellence for Product Environmental Compliance. Matthew currently chairs the Environmental Sustainable Electronics (ESE) Technical Work Group for the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, known as iNEMI.
Matthew has a Post Graduate Diploma focused in Environmental Management from the University of Ulster.
Matthew may be reached here:
chalklem19@gmail.com
by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

We’re delighted to have Brad McCully joining us. He’s a business development executive at Advanced Technology Services and has been a part of the company since its founding in 1985. But, he got involved in the manufacturing field much earlier in his career, working at various levels for Caterpillar.
Brad will help us get a look at:
by Carl S. Carlson Leave a Comment

Carl and Fred discussing what it takes to be an expert reliability engineer, from a technical point of view.
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by Robert Kalwarowsky Leave a Comment

On this bonus episode, I talk about fear-based leadership, why it’s ineffective over the long term and sustainable growth leadership,
Check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/
Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
by Robert Kalwarowsky Leave a Comment

On this week’s episode, I welcome Fred Schenkelberg and André Ferrari to the show. We discuss Reliability math, and how to use it.
You can connect with our guests here:
Fred Schenkelberg – https://www.linkedin.com/in/fmsreliability/
André Ferrari – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9-michel-ferrari-9a27b573/
If your company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/
Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

It’s a pleasure for me to have Paul Daoust back again to talk about life cycle costing. Paul is the founder of Scio Asset Management, with over 25 years of experience in the asset management field. He also sits on the board of directors at PEMAC.
Together, we’ll be taking a closer look at:

In this week’s episode of Masterminds in Maintenance, we are excited to have Steven Dobie, Reliability Engineer at Teck Resources Limited, back on the show!

Kirk and Fred discussing doing failure analysis and the challenges
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Kirk and Fred discussing the new challenges in reliability engineering, which maybe the old challenges of moving away from the misleading approach of Failure Prediction Methodology (FPM) and for Fred its the continued use of MTBF as a metric for reliability.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Hal Frohreich, Mario Aguirre, Calvin Williams, Maria Williams, Brandy Schade, and Nick Dumasia the show. We discuss how to become better continuous improvement leaders.
You can connect with our guests here:
Hal Frohreich – https://www.linkedin.com/in/halfrohreich/
Mario Aguirre – https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaguirre/
Calvin Williams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvin-l-williams/
Maria Williams – https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamsantonia/
Brandy Schade – https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandyschade/
Nick Dumasia – https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-dumasia-b6182616/
If you’re company sells products or services to engaged maintenance & reliability professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. If you’d like to discuss advertising on my content, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
Check out my website robsreliability.com and sign up for the weekly reliability newsletter with bonus content. If you like the show, please tell your colleagues about it and follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/robsreliabilityproject/
Follow Rob’s Reliability Project on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/robsreliabilityproject/
Music by XTaKeRuX, Song: White Crow is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
by Mike Konrad Leave a Comment

Mike Konrad joins Dr. Jennie Hwang, Phil Zarrow, Bob Willis, and Ray Prasad to discuss several industry topics including the pandemic, common technical issues, training and support, and other interesting topics.
A video version of this podcast is also available here:
https://vimeo.com/433866207/d0f9ac8f65
Dr. Jennie Hwang
jennie.hwang@h-techgroup.com
www.jenniehwang.com
Phil Zarrow
phil_zarrow@itmconsulting.com
www.itmconsulting.com
Bob Willis
bob@bobwillis.co.uk
www.bobwillis.co.uk
Ray Prasad
rayprasade310@gmail.com
www.rayprasad.com