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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Learning What You Don’t Know

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Greg and Fred discuss keeping up professionally, which is a requirement these days to continue to be marketable.

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Good is Often Good Enough

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Greg and Fred discuss form vs. function decision making.

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Join Greg and Fred as they discuss various elements of form vs. function decision making.  Greg…

Mil HDBK 217 F Again!

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Chris and Fred discuss the Military Handbook 217 Version F (from 1991 no less) … again? Ever heard of it?

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Inspiring New STEM Students

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Greg and Dianna discussing how to get involved in inspiring new STEM students.

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Join Greg and Dianna as they discuss inspiring new STEM students. How d…

ERM and Reliability Engineers

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Dianna and Greg discussing ERM and Reliability Engineers, along with the AI revolution and the current state of quality.

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Creating a Culture of Innovation with Quality and Reliability

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Dianna and Carl discussing creating a culture of innovation with Quality and Reliability.

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Quality and Reliability Management: Independence vs. Integration

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Carl and Dianna sharing experiences with different forms of managing quality and reliability activities. The importance of in…

Product Reliability in Complex Supply Chains

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Dianna and Chris discussing product reliability in complex supply chains.

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Join Dianna and Chris as they discuss product reliability i…

Sustainability and Reliability

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Chris and Dianna discuss the relationship between reliability engineering and sustainability (or anything else that is environmentally friendly). Is there some…

Where is Reliability Training Going?

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Chris and Carl discuss where reliability engineering training is going … noting that Chris and Carl do a lot of it.

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Where are FMEAs (and their standards) Heading?

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Carl and Chris discussing the future of FMEA, sharing their vision for where this method is headed.

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Where are FMEAs (and their stan…

Last Minutism

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Greg and Fred discussing why do folks wait to the last minute to get important things done.  We go beyond procrastination to understand the basics of last minutism.

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Hero Syndrome

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Greg and Fred discuss why heros who fly in to fix a failing project or product recall get all the attention, praise and promotions.  But, the folks who maintain the systems day…

Becoming a Consultant

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Chris and Fred discuss how to become a reliability engineering consultant. Is this something you are interested in?

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how …

The Role of Regulations

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Chris and Fred discuss the role of regulations … good, bad and ugly.

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how regulations can help, hinder and delude us wh…

Changing Customer Expectations

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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent product failure that Kirk had with the manufacturer of his e-bike, and the positive outcome.

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Making Assumptions

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Kirk and Fred discuss the use of assumptions in the reliability models, testing, and predictions

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss how assumptions are used in…

Naked Mole Rat

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Chris and Fred discuss the naked mole rat … an animal that doesn’t appear to age at all! Ever! And they are ugly …

Want to know why we are talking about these animals and wha…

Allocating Reliability – Conundrum

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Chris and Fred discuss one of the challenges of allocating reliability … in response to a question from one of our listeners. Might you be able to learn so…