How to Talk About MTBF

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Chris and Fred discuss the pointlessness of the MTBF.  This comes from a listener who reached out to complain about how lots of industries enforce the MTBF … but why?

Deferred Maintenance in the News

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Chris and Fred discuss about what happens when we ‘defer’ maintenance … or do it later … or perhaps never. When is it OK to do this?

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What Could Go Wrong

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Chris and Fred discuss ‘what can go wrong’ in scenarios where it is almost impossible to even comprehend might happen … like when something is really old!

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Changing Company Career Advice

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Carl and Fred discussing advice for experienced engineers who are looking to change jobs or companies.

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Inside Company Career Advice

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Carl and Fred talking about their experiences in their own careers and advices for others in developing and taking advantage of career opportunities within a com…

Data and Automation of Analysis

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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of current buzzwords in the field of reliability,  the use of software data Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (…

Very Long Term Storage Question

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Kirk and Fred discussing how to determine reliability for an LED device that needs to be operational after 250 years storage.

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The Point of Your Role

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Greg and Fred discussing the professional role of a quality and reliability engineer within an organization.

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The Term Risk Management

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Greg and Fred discuss the concepts and words surrounding reliability management, risk management and enterprise risk management.

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Putting Reliability Plans Together

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Chris and Fred discuss how we create a ‘reliability plan.’ It is not simply a list of tools …

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Overcoming Resistance

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Chris and Fred discuss how we overcome cultural resistance to ‘good’ things – like better reliability engineering. Is it possible?

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Approaches to Systemic Change

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Dianna and Fred discussing a listener question about approaches to systemic change. How can we make systemic changes into the way people go about their work? Th…

Necessity of Collaboration

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Dianna and Fred discussing the many forms that collaboration can take and ways to approach collaboration as a way to successfully work with others to solve a probl…

Reliability of Produce

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Kirk and Fred discussing about a subject that is quite different from electronics and systems, that is the degradation of fruit and vegetables and prevention of aging …

Prework for HALT

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Kirk and Fred discussing a question from a listener, that is pretty fundamental to HALT programs, what to do before starting to do HALT.

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Working with a Lab

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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about finding a lab to help you come up with some meaningful reliability information. Does that laboratory exist?

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Strength-Stress with Limited Information

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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called ‘stress-strength’ we hear a lot about in the world of reliability … especially when we need to use it to wor…

Restarting Quality

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Greg and Fred discuss the future of quality and reliability – which may be ‘back to the future’ of quality.

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Decision Fatigue

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Greg and Fred discuss the importance for making smart decisions.  The challenge is that after Covid we are all tired of making decisions.  So, have we lost our perspective a…

A Facilitator’s Role

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Carl and Fred discussing the essence of a facilitator’s role in leading meetings and reliability methods. This role is discussed from the viewpoint of reliability applic…