Reliability and Quality

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Dianna and Fred discussing differences and similarities between quality and reliability.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss the differences and similari…

What is Working in Quality

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Dianna and Fred discussing the role of Quality and quality professionals in an organization.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss Quality in organizati…

Building Rapport and Influence

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Carl and Fred discussing how to build rapport with colleagues, as one of the steps in shaping and influencing product designs and manufacturing processes.

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Maintenance v Product Reliability Engineering

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the crossover knowledge between asset reliability and product reliability. What are the simil…

Design Use of Cpk

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Chris and Fred discuss the use of this thing called ‘Cpk’ which is what we call a ‘capability index.’ This is a measure of how ‘capable’ a typically manufacturing process i…

Proper Use of Cpk

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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘Cpk’ and other ‘capability indices’ mean … especially when it comes to reliability. Never heard of this or want to learn more? Listen to this p…

Modern Phone Qualification

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Dianna and Fred discussing the information needed to determine how to qualify product reliability.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss a listener’s que…

Value of Certification

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the value of certification in reliability engineering. Does it help one’s career advancement? Will it enhance one’s …

Can Organizations Change

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Greg and Fred discuss the increasing requirement for organizations to change.

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Greg Hutchins is the new podcast co-conspirator with Fred Schenkelberg.

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Change Management with Humans

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Greg and Fred discuss the range of elements involved with change management.

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Join Fred and Greg in this first joint podcast on ‘Change Management wi…

Reliability Goals and Allocation

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Chris and Fred discuss reliability goals … and how we ‘allocate’ them to components and subsystems. This is really important, as subsystems and components ar…

Easy to Ask Hard to Answer

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Chris and Fred discuss questions that are easy to ask … but hard to answer. And these questions are often hard to answer because the person asking the question has…

The Future of Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing the future of the field of reliability engineering, including where we have been and where we are going.

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Join Carl and Fred as …

Unusual Reliability Applications

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Carl and Fred discussing unusual and interesting reliability projects that cross disciplines.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss some of their mo…

When a Proposal Fails

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting a proposal for new testing (i.e HALT) accepted.

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the many aspects of bri…

When to Stop Troubleshooting

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of when to end efforts in troubleshooting a failure.

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss issues surrounding the…

Statistics, Mechanisms, Facilitation

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Chris and Fred discuss how statistics, mechanisms, and other technical words that come from ‘reliability engineering’ in contrast to softer terms like ‘f…

Common Slope Assumption

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Chris and Fred discuss a ‘common slope assumption’ … which is something that only those of you with reliability engineering experience will have heard about. This is …

Key Characteristics Revisited

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Carl and Fred having a new conversation about the age-old topic of key characteristics, and how they are used to improve products and processes.

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Joi…

Question Everything

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Carl and Fred discussing the value of questioning in the process of learning and personal growth. Students and instructors should question each other as part of learning,…