Upon Further Inspection, the mechanical integrity podcast, uses engaging interviews to celebrate the people, stories, and real-world industrial reliability experiences.
Every episode explores topics that matter most to professionals in oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, and other process industries. Through in-depth conversations with industry experts, we discuss themes like continuous improvement, safety, technology advancements, compliance, risk-based inspection, and professional growth.
In Part 2 of our conversation with Ryan Corn, Lead Corporate Refining Reliability Specialist at Marathon, hosts Branden Stucky and Greg Alvarado examine Ryan’s progression through inspection supervision and routine maintenance to his current focus on predictive maintenance and long-term fixed equipment reliability. Ryan reflects on how inspection activities can affect maintenance schedules, why communicating the rationale behind inspections helps gain maintenance team support, and how experie...
8 Oct 2026
Steering the Ship, Not Rowing the Oars (featuring Ryan Corn)
In Part 1 of our conversation with Ryan Corn, Lead Corporate Refining Reliability Specialist at Marathon, hosts Branden Stucky and Greg Alvarado trace Ryan’s path from pre-med classes in small-town Illinois to a career in mechanical integrity. Ryan shares how his experience in quality and process engineering at a glass stovetop manufacturer and later managing a machine shop that repaired pipeline valves prepared him for his eventual role as an inspection engineer in Robinson, Illinois. He dis...
24 Sept 2026
Where the Rubber Meets the Road (featuring Kelly Schupp)
We're back with Kelly Schupp, ASME PCC Standards Chair and Consulting Engineer at Equity, for part 2 of our conversation! This episode picks up with Kelly’s transition from design engineering to refinery and chemical plant fixed equipment, including how an all-day interview at Valero changed her career direction, a “sink or swim” introduction to post-construction, and lessons in writing technical requirements that work across sites of vastly different sizes. Kelly shares stories spanning 1930...
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