Problem Solving with Customer Service

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Dianna and Fred discussing customer service: personal and professional experiences.

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Encouraging New Engineers

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Dianna and Fred discussing why and how to encourage new engineers and foster younger generations to consider engineering as a profession.

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Dealing with Suppliers

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Kirk and Fred discussing dealing with suppliers in dealing with failures in complex interconnected systems.

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Talking about HALT

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Kirk and Fred discussing a basic subject that Kirk has been speaking about for over three decades, Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and carrying the ideas of Gregg H…

Incomplete Data

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have incomplete data. Isn’t data just data?

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No Such Thing as Safe

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Chris and Fred discuss this term we call ‘safe.’ What is ‘safe?’ How can we use the term ‘safe’ in industries that involve a lot of risk? Perhaps there is no such thing…

Fitting into a Risk Program

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Greg and Fred discussing how risk assessment must be tailored to the context of the organization.

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Risk Assessments

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Greg and Fred discussing how and why to conduct risk assessments.

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• ISO defines a risk assessment as: 1. Risk…

What Software Are You Using?

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Dianna and Fred discussing software tools used by reliability engineers: the good, the bad, and pitfalls.

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Catching Up with Questions

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Carl and Fred summarizing and discussing the latest questions received from readers and listeners.

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Bringing Back Old Plant Equipment

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the use of FMEA when ramping up equipment in a plant. In this case, the equipment had been sitting dorman…

The Best Reliability Training

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Kirk and Fred discussing their views on how to best learn the discipline of reliability engineering.

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Decisions and Safety

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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to ship a product that may or may not be safe and reliable.

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Hierarchy of Engineering

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Chris and Fred discuss the ‘hierarchy’ of reliability engineering. Which is the hierarchy of the knowledge and terms we need to follow when we learn about reliabilit…

Accuracy and Intervals

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Chris and Fred discuss the terms ‘accuracy’ and ‘intervals’ … which are used a lot by reliability engineers. And how they relate to ‘confidence.’ So what to do any of …

Celebrating Reliability Success

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about when it is OK to celebrate reliability successes. Specifically, how long you have to wait to feel comfortab…

Do You Need a Degree in Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing higher education and the importance of a college degree in reliability for a career in reliability engineering.

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Reliability Program vs Reality

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Kirk and Fred discussing failures in products after launch and the importance of  and knowing how the customers use conditions.

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Reliability Growth

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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘reliability growth’ means? Sounds simple … right? And it can be. But sometimes not.

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System Engineering and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss what are often seen as competing/different/complementary/friendly/unfriendly disciplines … systems and reliability engineering. How …