Leading Teams

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Carl and Fred discussing the essence of team leadership. Reliability engineers need to add effective team leadership to their core set of skills.

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661 Management vs Leadership

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Carl and Fred discussing what it means to be a leader, and how the principles of leadership go beyond the traditional roles of management.

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Effort versus Outcomes

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to focus on ‘effort’ instead of ‘outcomes.’ We often think we focus on outcomes only … but how many people ‘get by’ simply by bein…

3 Perspectives for Fault Tree Analysis

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Chris and Fred discussing the 3 perspectives of Fault Tree Analysis or FTA. What … there are 3 perspectives? … what are perspectives when it comes to F…

Equipment Life Expectations

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James and Fred discussing the many variables that impact equipment expected lifetimes.

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Evolution and Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing the evolution of technology and reliability in consumer products.

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Reliability is Green

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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent opinion article in the New York Times on technology waste.

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Hints to Have a Proactive Reliability Program

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Chris and Fred discuss ‘proactive’ reliability engineering … and trying to get out of being ‘reactive.’ Some entire organizations are structure …

Reliability Starts at the Top

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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability starts at the top of every organization. And by that, we mean … leadership. What does that mean? How can the CEO be more …

More Than One Root Cause

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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of root cause. How many “root causes” can there be? Is there only one “root cause” for a problem? What about events or condition…

Reliability and Risk Management

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Carl and Fred discussing the relationship of reliability and risk management, including areas of overlap and linkages.

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Suspected or Known Problem

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of finding a latent problem in a product after your company has been producing and selling for some time.

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Reliability Expectations

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Kirk and Fred discussing how we continue to evolve our reliability expectations  as technology becomes more robust and reliable.

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Extrapolation and Sample Sizes

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Chris and Fred discuss (essentially) how many ‘things’ you need to see to know enough about those ‘things.’ We see this conundrum across all sorts of fields of…

Accelerated Testing Assumptions

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Chris and Fred discuss accelerated testing. Accelerated testing is great for getting lots of information in a short period of time. You can compress a lot of …

Deterministic versus Probabilistic

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘deterministic’ versus ‘probabilistic’ … and what that means for reliability engineering. Know what these words …

The Hunt for Reliability Training

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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about ‘hunting’ reliability training. And we do mean ‘hunt.’

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Standards and Regulations

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Kirk and Fred discussing the role and relationship of meeting standards and making a reliable product.

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Dealing with Failures that Destroy

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of understanding the root cause of failures for products that are hard to retrieve from the field or have other reas…

Maintenance FMEAs

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Carl and Fred discussing the application of FMEAs in support of asset maintenance.

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