Heroes versus Prevention

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Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failu…

Selecting the Right Recommendations

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Carl and Fred discussing methods for selecting reliability recommendations, following the process used to develop effective reliability plans.

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Pareto was Right

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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of prioritizing tasks, both in life, and in the field of reliability engineering.

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Join Carl and Fred as they talk about Pare…

Should We Ban the Term Failure?

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Chris and Fred discuss the term ‘failure’ … and should we use it?

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how important words can be … and how they ca…

Wrapped Around the Axle

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘wrapped around the axle.’ It is one of those perfect analogies … especially for people who fall for imperfect analogies! L…

Military Customers, Center of Gravity, and Reliability

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Chris and Kirk discuss how militaries go about making and getting reliable stuff. And this is sometimes more successful than others …

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FMEAs and Percentage Reduction in Failures

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Chris and Carl ask each other … by how much do FMEAs improve reliability? … or reduce failure?

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Join Chris and Carl as they discuss what…

A Better Way to do Design Reviews

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Chris and Fred ask each other ‘what makes a good design review?’ This is a great question. Reliability engineering can help! (… click here to read an articl…

Safety and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing the tools of safety and reliability engineering, and how these tools overlap.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the broad set of …

Safety – Binary or Variable

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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of safety. Specifically whether an item or device can be considered safe or not safe (binary), or whether there are degrees of s…

Make or Check Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘making’ and ‘checking’ reliability. And there is a difference. This podcast follows on from Chris’s article about a U…

Supply Chain Controls and Checks

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Kirk and Fred discussing how we can insure we receive outsourced parts meet our requirements when we may not know what variances in specifications will affec…

Kitchen Appliance Failure

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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent failure of an electric range/oven and the troubleshooting, FA and repair. See the show notes to see photos and details of the fail…

Wright’s Law and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called ‘Wright’s Law’ which is a really fascinating way of describing how things improve as we create more of them. And why is …

Maintenance Culture Matters

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Chris and Fred discuss how important maintenance culture is – especially when it comes to safety-critical systems. Like ‘cable cars’ used to transport people up s…

Interpreting Distribution Parameters

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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘distribution parameters’ mean when it comes to random processes. Specifically failure random processes. This is an interesti…

Giving and Receiving Feedback

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Carl and Fred discussing the topic of giving and receiving feedback, and how it supports professional development.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discus…

Keeping up with Reliability Tools

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener summitted question: When one’s job is focused on a single area of reliability, how does one keep up with advancements on…

The Words We Use Matter

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Chris and Fred discuss the different words we often use (and misuse) in reliability engineering. ‘Reliability’ has been used for hundreds of years to describe differe…

Calculating Acceleration Factor

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Chris and Fred discuss accelerated testing – and how we come up with acceleration factors. Accelerated testing is great! It allows us to compress an entire li…