Equations for Goal Setting

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Chris and Fred discuss what equations (if any) exist for setting and optimizing reliability goals … sometimes trading off against other goals. Wo …

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Customer Requirements

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Chris and Fred discuss customer requirements when it comes to reliability. How do we get this wrong?

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Bearing Failure and Analysis

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Chris and Fred discuss how bearings fail. Bearings are among the most common components used in products and systems. So, how do they go wrong?

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Decisions and Metrics

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Greg and Fred discuss the importance of key metrics, whether KPI’s or OKR’s, to determine the quality of decision making.

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Communicating Complex Topics

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Enrico and Fred discuss a few approaches that may be effective when communication complex topics to others.

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Loss of Expertise

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Greg and Fred discuss what happens when a company doesn’t have the engineering knowledge, skills, and abilities to design things.  Why?  Companies don’t make commodity stuf…

Research Options

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Kirk and Fred discuss the new options for doing technical research, including Google Scholar and AI tools like ChatGPT

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Vendors and Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discuss the value or risks of sending failed components to the vendor for failure analysis.

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Mastering AI and Your Career

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Greg and Fred discuss how AI is changing work, careers, and jobs.  Last week, Fiverr CEO warned staff: ‘AI is coming for your jobs, including mine!’  So what  do…

Reliability Engineering Books

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Chris and Fred discuss talk about how to ‘rank’ reliability engineering books that are actually based on helpfulness (and perhaps not an algorithm).

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Psychology and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss the psychology behind (bad) reliability decisions. Humans run (and ruin) everything!

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Better Risk Management

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Greg and Fred discuss risk management tools specifically the advantages and disadvantages of using color -coded risk matrices.

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AI and Reliability Planning

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Carl and Fred discuss a few ways to use AI during the reliability planning process.

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System FMEA

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Carl and Fred discuss a question from a listener about the scope and procedure for a System FMEA, and what is different from other FMEA types.

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Risk Planning

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Greg and Fred discuss risk planning and why folks don’t do it.  And, then they wonder what and why something happened.

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Phantom Test Results

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Dianna and Fred discuss phantom test results in reliability testing.

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Sample Size Considerations

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Dianna and Fred discuss sample size considerations for reliability testing.

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Fault Tree Analysis

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Chris and Fred discuss the basics and uses of fault tree analysis. Chances are that if you have been taught about fault trees, it was for only one of the many ways you co…

Dismissing Failures

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Chris and Fred discuss a common problem of dismissing or ignoring failures, especially when they don’t fit your ‘profile.’

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Test to Pass or Fail

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Enrico and Fred discuss two of the most common reliability testing approaches.

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Join Enrico and Fred as they discuss the pros, cons, and pitfalls of designing…