Many Ways to Estimate Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss how we can go about estimating reliability … especially when you don’t have a lot of data, experience or other things that textbooks …

Lifespan of an FMEA

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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about what is called a “living FMEA.” Is this a good idea? How is it done?

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RCM and FMEAs

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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question on FMEAs that involve maintenance. Specifically, can a Design FMEA have causes that are maintenance related?

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Details and Plans

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Greg and Fred discuss why and how the triple constraints of a project: schedule, cost, and scope variances result in risks that can result in project failure.

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Plug and Pray

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Greg and Fred discuss why engineers plug numbers into a formula not really knowing why or what they are doing.  At best, this is called ‘plug and play.’  At worst, this is call…

Bad History Challenge

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Kirk and Fred discuss how to deal with those who have said that they tried using the HALT methodology with a past project but did not find any benefit from it.

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Cycles or Time

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Kirk and Fred discuss whether we should use time or number of cycles or total time a product has been available for use.

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Creating Reliability Awareness

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Chris and Fred discuss how to help me, you and the people around us more aware of reliability (and reliability engineering)? Good question!

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Required to Use MIL-HDBK 217?

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Chris and Fred discuss Military Handbook 217 Version F for the ‘Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment’ or MIL-HDBK 217F … and why being forced to use i…

Using DFR Tools

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Kirk and Fred discuss using Design for Reliability (DFR) for reliability development of a new product.

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Using Outside Labs

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Kirk and Fred discuss the use and tradeoffs of using external environmental testing and failure analysis labs versus having in-house equipment

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Dealing with Data

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Philip and Fred discuss the first basic steps when confronted with a pile of data.

• What do you do with a stack of data – can you make any sense of this – please? Can you b…

Consumable Product Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss how to approach reliability objectives and testing for consumable elements of a product or system.

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Assumptions and Analysis

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Philip and Fred discuss a fundamental element of all statistical analysis.

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• Every analysis or model …

Why is Reliability a Process?

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Carl and Fred discuss the process of reliability, which also happens to be the name of their new book. They answer the question “why is reliability a process”? …

How Root is the Cause?

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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of identifying root causes and how deep to go.  It’s not as simple as getting to the “root.”

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Environmental Testing

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Kirk and Fred discuss the question of using a standard series of environmental test for reliability development.

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A HALT Plan Question

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Kirk and Fred discuss a test plan sent to Kirk and how this plan misses the point of accelerated testing.

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Good Reliability Requirements

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Carl and Fred discuss the essence of well-written reliability requirements. They are much more than reliability numbers.

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Common FMEA Confusions

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Carl and Fred discuss common FMEA confusions that come up from time to time. These are condensed from questions that Carl gets from “Inside FMEA” readers.

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