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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

Money talks in quest to reduce waste

Money talks in quest to reduce waste

By Robert Apelgren • on April 28, 2010

Following along with one of my past blogs, “Reliability is a ‘green’ initiative”, I would like to talk some more about waste reduction. Waste is

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Reduce or eliminate waste through training

Reduce or eliminate waste through training

By Robert Apelgren • on January 14, 2010

Following along with my blog “Reliability is a green initiative”, I would like to talk about waste reduction by training. Waste is seen in

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Reliability reduces waste of time, talent and resources

Reliability reduces waste of time, talent and resources

By Robert Apelgren • on October 23, 2009

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

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Reliability is a ‘green initiative’

Reliability is a ‘green initiative’

By Robert Apelgren • on September 16, 2009

Demand for products has declined in many parts of the world, and with more manufacturing being shipped overseas, reliability of our existing processes

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What reliability-improvement tools should I invest in?

What reliability-improvement tools should I invest in?

By Robert Apelgren • on March 19, 2009

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.

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What is so important about culture?

What is so important about culture?

By Robert Apelgren • on February 9, 2009

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

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Just how do you start a reliability program?

Just how do you start a reliability program?

By Robert Apelgren • on January 21, 2009

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

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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 in any position we hold. I cannot think of a single

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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

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