Working on the Right Things

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Philip and Fred discussing what should reliability engineers be working on that are the right things.

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Expectations

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Philip and Fred discussing how setting expectations impact reliability engineering tasks and results.

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Regulators and Risk

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Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem or regulation. If the regulators are not the adults in the room, then we have a problem.

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First Steps with Data

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Chris and Fred discuss what is the first thing with you do when someone gives you lots of information. What do you do?

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Basic Risk Management

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Greg and Fred discussing how to set up a risk assessment program.

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• How to st…

Checking Assumptions

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Greg and Fred discussing how assumptions in reliability and quality engineering are highly critical.  We all know what assume can stand for:  make an ‘ass of u and me.’

Backup Balance

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Kirk and Fred discussing how much we should invest in backup power or  systems redundancy to prepare for rare weather or use conditions.

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Role of Technical Papers

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Kirk and Fred discussing technical papers, which Fred and Kirk have a few on the website Research Gate, and the role they play in the reliability engineering world.

Reliability Assumptions

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Carl and Fred discussing the broad subject of assumptions, and how they impact reliability analysis and applications. When are assumptions good and when are they ques…

FMEA Occurrence Question

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Carl and Fred discussing a question received by an Inside FMEA reader on the subject of FMEA occurrence rating.

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What is Your Approach

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Chris and Fred discuss your approach for estimating the reliability of a new product, with new technology, manufactured in a new facility? … wow!

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Setting up an ORT

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to establish an Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT) … or is it an accelerated test? … or the MTTF?

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Dealing With Product Characteristics

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Dianna and Fred discussing engineering projects and dealing with product characteristics and requirements.

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New Ways to Break Things

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Dianna and Fred discussing new innovations from a reliability point-of-view: how is this new stuff going to break? What are going to be the new ways to break things?
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New School Leadership

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Chris and Fred discuss the changing ideas of leadership … and how people lament newer generations and their approaches to (and expectations of) leadership. There are ch…

60th Percentile with Vendor Data

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What does this title mean? Chris and Fred discuss how some vendors make ‘startling’ claims regarding reliability from some small amounts of test data. So whe…

Reliability and Statistics

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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of statistics in reliability engineering,  where they are useful and where their use may not be the most efficient way to find and…

Learning about Failures

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Kirk and Fred discussing the idea of listing of failure mechanisms and their different viewpoints on how we learn some of the common failure mechanisms

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Single Use Product Reliability

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Dianna and Fred discussing single use product reliability. For products that are used once and then disposed or recycled, do we need to consider and plan for t…

Stresses and Mechanism

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Dianna and Fred discussing a listener question about understanding stresses and mechanism of failures of a new design.

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