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

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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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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What is a reliability engineer?

What is a reliability engineer?

By Robert Apelgren • on December 20, 2008

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

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