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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Identify Weak Points

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Kirk and Fred discussing how a good reliability development process is to identify the weaknesses to improve a product including a recent fence repair at Kirk’s house.

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Confirmation Bias

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Kirk and Fred discussing the paths they took in Reliability Engineering, how our past experience shaped our view of the best methods for improving the reliability of system…

Failure to Adjust

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Greg and Fred discussing why people have a hard time adjusting and pivoting in times of uncertainty, much like what we all experience today.

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Supply Chain Tradeoffs

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Greg and Fred discussing the tradeoffs in reshoring.  Many companies are considering bringing design and manufacturing back to the US or host country.

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Improving or Suing

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Chris and Fred discuss whether you want to lay blame (i.e. sue) or improve reliability? Don’t be confused … accountability is important. But that doesn’t replace everyone …

Warranty to Failure Rate

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Chris and Fred discuss what (if anything) we can learn from advertised warranty or reliability specifications from vendors.

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Uniqueness of Reliability Engineers

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Philip and Fred discussing a handful of traits that may be unique to reliability engineers.

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Listing of Failure Mechanisms

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Philip and Fred discussing a question about locating a listing of failure mechanisms.

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Professional Societies: The Rules Have Changed

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Greg and Fred discussing how The Rules Have Changed for Professional Societies as well as for most of us.

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Quality of Decisions

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Greg and Fred discussing how people make important decisions and why decision quality is important.

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Storage of Test Parts

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Dianna and Fred discussing the effects of handling, cumulative test, and storage of test parts on test results.

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Reliability Prediction Standards

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Dianna and Fred discussing the history and application of published parts count prediction models and standards in reliability analysis.

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Metrics and Games

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question on maintenance strategies, and a company mandate metric comparing preventive and corrective maintenance tasks.

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The Value of Curiosity

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Carl and Fred discussing what brings enjoyment to one’s life and work, and how to explore and learn, with curiosity.

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What is a Reliability Score?

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Chris and Fred discuss how we communicate reliability to our customers. And they haven’t completed university courses in reliability engineering …

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Confidence and Tolerance Intervals

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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘confidence,’ ‘tolerance’ and ‘prediction’ intervals. Is there any point in understanding the difference betw…

MEOST Setup Remotely

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Kirk and Fred discussing Multiple Environmental Over Stress Test or MEOST.

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Reliability Spooky Stories

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Kirk and Fred discussing  and reflecting on some of the spooky reliability problems we have seen (or not seen) that sometimes have haunted us on this  Halloween 20…

Risk and Supply Chain

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Greg and Fred discussing supply chain risk management.

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