A PFMEA Use Question

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Carl and Fred discussing an interesting question from a subscriber to the Inside FMEA series. The question has to do with selected process steps on a Process FMEA, and t…

Data and Mechanisms

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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability data analysis really doesn’t mean a lot … unless you pair it with a failure mechanism. Why is this? What does that mean?

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Influencing Change

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means (as a reliability engineer) to try and change something … even though the organization that thinks they are open to change really isn’…

Dealing with Changing Requirements

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Kirk and Fred discussing the dynamics of changing a design during the development process. The longer it takes to develop a new product the longer it allow…

Connect Activity to Business Objectives

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Kirk and Fred discussing a basic question Fred asks in the Reliability Management Class and with new clients, that is “what are you trying to accompli…

We Are All Consultants

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Carl and Fred discussing how much of what we do as reliability professionals falls into the role of consultants. Learning how to be better consultants will enhance the…

Transferring Knowledge

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Carl and Fred discussing the process of knowledge transfer from one person to others. This process is at the core of influencing others to achieve reliability objectiv…

Manager and Leader

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Greg and Fred discuss the importance of management and leadership.  They cover the similarities and differences between the two.

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Join Greg and Fred as they dis…

Why Do Networking

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Greg and Fred discuss the importance and challenges of networking.

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Join Greg and Fred as they discuss the future of networking and even influencing that can pos…

Training that Sticks

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Dianna and Fred discussing training that sticks.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss what makes successful training and consider it from teacher/coach and s…

Independent Design Reviewer

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Dianna and Fred discussing design reviews and independent reviewers.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss a question: “How important are independent r…

Too Many Meetings

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Dianna and Fred discussing how to get next steps when being presented a problem by quality assurance.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss a listener question: …

Who Makes Something Reliable?

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Chris and Fred discuss the seemingly never resolved question on ‘who’ is responsible for making something reliable? Is it the supplier? The designers? The manuf…

Confidence from Understanding

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Chris and Fred discuss what this term ‘confidence’ means … especially when it comes to statistics (and reliability)

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Join Chris and Fred as they disc…

Training Everyone for Risk Management

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Greg and Fred discussing risk management training for all employees.

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Join Fred and Greg as they discuss how risk management is like quality …

Decision Making for Reliability

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Greg and Fred discussing risk based, decision making for reliability and quality engineers.

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Join Fred and Greg as they discuss decision making in …

What Matters in a Demonstration Test?

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about how which failures to count in demonstration testing. Specifically, what about maintenance induced fa…

Fast vs Thorough

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Carl and Fred discussing the need to be fast in smaller or startup companies. Reliability engineering can adapt to a fast culture and support lean product development, witho…

Regression Metrics

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Chris and Fred discuss ‘regression metrics’ … or numbers that software packages spit out at us to suggest if a statistical model is ‘good’ or not. But if this is the only …

Technology Only Goes So Far

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Chris and Fred discuss the limits of ‘technology solutions’ … especially when it comes to reliability – mainly because there is always a human being involved!

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