Podcasting and Reliability

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James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.

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Join James and Fred as they discuss the importance of engagement when runn…

Time to Market and Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing companies making reliability a priority early in the product development as opposed to waiting to after market release to see if it’s …

Purpose of Accendo Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing the many years of discussions  on Speaking of Reliability since Fred and Kirk recorded Episode 1 in 2015, six years ago.

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Only have MTBFs

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Chris and Fred discuss … MTBFs! Fred’s favorite! We (should) know that Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is not reliability. So what do we do if we somehow need to get reliabi…

Purpose of a Body of Knowledge

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Chris and Fred discuss what the purpose of a ‘Body of Knowledge’ or BOK is? … or what is a BOK? … especially when it comes to reliability?

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Implementing Reliability Programs

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Carl and Fred discussing the challenges associated with implementing reliability programs.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the execution step…

Interpreting Test Results

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about reliability demonstration testing; specifically how to deal with unrelated failures when using “success testing.”

Training and the Trades

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James and Fred discussing the impact of the labor shortage on maintenance programs.

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Join James and Fred as they discuss the dilemma of attracting the nece…

How and What to Learn

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James and Fred discussing learning from failures, yet shouldn’t we prevent failures?

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Join James and Fred as they discuss the idea of learning from failures …

Thoughts on ALARP

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Chris and Fred discussing another question from a listener based on ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ or ALARP. This is used a lot in risk management and analysis … but wh…

Reliability and Pumping Water

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Chris and Fred discussing service reliability based on a listener question where we don’t just look at reliability as it applies to an item, product or device. …

Design Failure Patterns

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Kirk and Fred discussing how new technology designs of buildings or electronics are usually over-designed in the first generation.

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Reliability and Simplicity

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Kirk and Fred discussing marketing reliability, brand reputation for reliability along with tradeoffs between making equipment simple and reliable.

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Warning Signs and Culture

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Chris and Fred discuss warning signs … especially those that revolve around culture … are often ignored. And it takes a ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ to do something …

When is MTBF OK?

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Chris and Fred discuss the MTBF … and if and when it can be used … sometimes in reliability engineering. We know that the MTBF is one of the most chronically overused (and m…

Creativity and Engineering

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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of creativity, and how it applies to engineering activities, including reliability engineering.

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Short Term Thinking

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Carl and Fred discussing the problem with short-term thinking; and the benefits of long-term thinking in the field of reliability engineering and management.

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Demonstration Testing

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Chris and Fred discuss the whole idea of ‘demonstration testing’ … and how it may be ‘chronically’ overused or at least misunderstood. Heard of ‘demonstration testing’ …

Perils of Assuming a Model

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Chris and Fred discuss some of the issues you face when selecting a (potentially incorrect) model. And how much uncertainty still remains when you do. Hate statist…

Public Reporting of Failures

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenges of failure analysis and reporting of the root cause of electronic system failures and corrective action to the consuming …