Accendo Reliability https://accendoreliability.com/podcast/the-reliability-fm-network/dtk-jon-elerath-consultant/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:19:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 © 2025 FMS Reliability Illuminated Reliability Engineering Knowledge Accendo Reliability Illuminated Reliability Engineering Knowledge Accendo Reliability fms@fmsreliability.com No DTK Jon Elerath Consultant https://accendoreliability.com/podcast/the-reliability-fm-network/dtk-jon-elerath-consultant/ https://accendoreliability.com/podcast/the-reliability-fm-network/dtk-jon-elerath-consultant/#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:00:44 +0000 http://accendoreliability.com/?post_type=podcast&p=23568 Jon Elerath, Consultant, Elerath Reliability Consulting

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.

  • System Modeling
    • Reliability without repair
    • Reliability with repair
    • Availability
  • Model analysis
    • Reliability block diagrams
    • Markov models
    • Sequential Monte Carlo simulations
    • Fault trees
  • Field data analysis
    • Develop the data collection process
    • Data with non-constant failure rates

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:

  • The story and value of obtaining his Ph.D.
  • How a corrosion course in college still works for him today
  • RAID with drives is not just for reliability performance
  • and, more

Recorded January 2016 at RAMS in Tucson, AZ.

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