What is a reliability engineer?
After I decided to participate in writing a blog for Reliable Plant, I had to decide where to start. The decision was a tough one because of the varying levels of experience the readers possess. I thought
About the Author
Name: Robert Apelgren
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Bio: Robert Apelgren is a senior reliability analyst. He holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial technology and an MBA. Robert is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) and a member of the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals’ Best Practices and Standards committees. He is also certified as a NAVAIR RCM Level III and Instructor, and NAVSEA RCM Level II. In addition, he has 15 years of maintenance experience as a technician, supervisor, coordinator, consultant and instructor. Robert has provided instruction in various RCM methodologies, including authoring an RCM analyst and RCM project manager Course, and has presented papers at various conferences.
Articles written by Robert Apelgren
Reliability reduces waste of time, talent and resources
Following along with my last blog, “Reliability is a green initiative”, I would like to talk about waste reduction. Waste is seen in many different
Reliability is a ‘green initiative’
Demand for products has declined in many parts of the world, and with more manufacturing being shipped overseas, reliability of our existing processes
Keep maintenance simple: Use senses and sensibility
What good is it to have advanced maintenance techniques if they have no real benefit over simple basic maintenance? Now I am not saying go and throw away
What reliability-improvement tools should I invest in?
When I started in maintenance, I loved looking at the tool catalogs and, of course, imagined how nice it would be to have one of those gigantic tool sets.
What is so important about culture?
In many of the articles and books that are published today, we see a great amount of improvements in different industries and companies using different
Just how do you start a reliability program?
Where do I start? I have heard the question many times and there is no real “easy” answer other than “pick a spot”. What I mean
How reliable is your training?
Ever since I started working, everywhere I worked had training. As we all know, training is the backbone of preparation to perform our assigned duties
