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 consultants, Jon has a breadth of experiences in the use of reliability techniques, such as FMEA, predictions and reliability testing.
Unlike most others, he has several strengths that are not as common.
Jon uses statistical fundamentals for all my work but always provides a practical application as simply as possible. He understands the basis for modeling and knows why one type of model is better than another for a specific case.
In his role as manager, he has created many reliability program plans; in his role as an individual contributor, he has created component/assembly reliability test plans.
While steeped in reliability theory, he is very hands-on.
He personally developed a reliability laboratory for testing plasm-etch subsystems and components; assembled a data storage system for Ongoing Reliability Tests (ORT) with over 1600 HDDs; and has attached accelerometers to solar trackers during a light snow in China.
In this episode, Jon discusses:
Recorded January 2016 at RAMS in Tucson, AZ.
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