Failure Rate to a Distribution

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Chris and Fred discussing a listener’s questions on how to convert a failure rate to a distribution.

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss a rather c…

Dealing with Reliability Risk

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Greg and Fred discussing how reliability inherently involves variability and risk.

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Join Greg and Fred as they discuss how to address decision making…

Reshoring and Talent

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Greg and Fred discussing bringing suppliers back to the location of OEM headquarters and factories.  A common risk is finding the talent to design and build these factor…

Software and Thinking

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Chris and Fred discuss the many and varied different software package that can help you do ‘reliability stuff’ … and how we usually assume everything they do is ‘OK.’ B…

An ALT Design Question

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Chris and Fred discuss an ALT or Accelerate Life Test Design Question. We love these podcasts … as we are directly answering a question from one of our listeners. Inte…

Reliability Predictions and FMEA Occurrence

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Carl and Fred discussing a reader question about FMEAs. Specifically, whether reliability predictions (for similar systems) are valid input to the…

Selecting the Right Method

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Greg and Fred discussing the right method (s) to solve quality and reliability problems specifically answering the question ‘is the approach good enough?’

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ChatGPT and Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discuss the use of artificial intelligence engines such as ChatGPT  in Reliability Engineering. A copy of the ChatGPT questions and responses that we di…

Mechanical Lessons Learned

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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s recent trip to the Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) and the reliability of Pinball Machines which new designs have been produced for ov…

Reliability Gap Assessment

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Carl and Fred discussing the second step in achieving high reliability: “Develop a Reliability Gap Assessment.”

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Reliability Strategic Vision

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Carl and Fred discussing the first step in achieving high reliability: “Develop a Reliability Strategic Vision.”

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss t…

Decisions and Value

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Chris and Fred discuss the importance of understanding value when you make decisions. And value needs to mean something to you and your organization. Not something in a d…

ALT Sample Size

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Chris and Fred discuss how many samples you need to conduct Accelerated Life Testing or ALT … and a little bit about what ALT is.

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Sedentary Inertia in Quality

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Chris and Dianna discuss the ‘sedentary inertia’ that many companies experience when they need to change … but can’t (don’t want to). Especially in the world of …

Two Sides of a Coin: Quality and Reliability

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Dianna and Chris discussing their different viewpoints of quality and reliability: how they are really two sides of a coin that are supported by …

Monitoring Manufacturing Product Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing how to ensure that the quality and reliability of the last units produced from a manufacturing line is the same as the f…

Issues with Single Stress Testing

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Kirk and Fred discussing a question from a listener regarding a specific failure mechanism and time to failure for the same, and how most failures are not d…

Stuck in Your Job

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Chris and Fred discuss what you can do to feel good about your job … including when you know it is time to move on.

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss that not…

RAMS Warts and All

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Chris and Fred discuss how it felt like the 2023 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) went? Was it a success? Is it going downhill?

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J…

Routine Reliability

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Dianna and Fred discussing routine reliability from a listener’s question: when creating a reliability plan for a project, how do we separate the routine and unique parts…