What Price Reliability?

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Carl and Fred discussing the reliability of the Texas electric grid debacle, and what can be learned from a reliability point of view. Lessons learned from this probl…

How to Become a Reliability Engineering Consultant

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Chris and Fred discuss how to become a reliability engineering consultant. This is a very natural question for a lot of us. It might be eas…

How Reliable Does My System Need to Be?

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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about setting a reliability goal. We got asked by someone who was responsible for a ‘complex’ system …

How reliable …

Ready to Teach Reliability

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Philip and Fred discussing the general need to be able to teach reliability all the time.

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss teaching reliability at …

How Much Do You Need to Know About Reliability?

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Philip and Fred discussing the journey of learning reliability engineering.

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss the need to know …

Electrical Power Reliability in Texas

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Kirk and Fred discussing the failures of the electrical grid due to a extreme cold and snow in Texas that was a very rare weather condition in February …

ALT Samples and HALT Limits

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Kirk and Fred discussing two questions from a listener on HALT and ALT.

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss two common questions regarding ALT (Acceler…

Backward Blueprinting to Drive Building a Plan

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Philip and Fred discussing the idea of getting clear around what you want to have when working on reliability within a product, system, or prog…

The Need for Proper Reliability Plan

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Philip and Fred discussing the difference between a reliability plan and reliability testing.

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss a few fund…

Assessing Reliability Courses

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Chris and Fred discuss what you need to think about when selecting your next reliability engineering course. What course do you need to do to become a better en…

Statistics and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss what came first … reliability or statistics? Reliability of course! There are plenty of organizations that focus on baking reliability into …

What to Do to Avoid Outdated Methods

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This is part two of a discussion Kirk and Fred have over a recent ASQ newsletter with CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test sample questions at the e…

Why Do We Use Outdated Methods

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This is the first part of two podcast that Kirk and Fred have on a recent ASQ Newsletter with sample CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test questions at the…

The Problem with Textbooks

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Chris and Fred discuss the apparent differences between what you find in textbooks and what you are supposed to do when it comes to good reliability engineering.

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HALT & Activation Energy

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener-submitted topic about highly accelerated life testing.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the difference between ALT …

Selecting Tools for a Plan

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Carl and Fred discussing how to select the tools that will be used in reliability plans.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss what makes for good reliabi…

The Dangers of Group Think

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Carl and Fred discussing the dynamics of teams, how they work, and what can go wrong.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the dangers of “group think” w…

Common Sense

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Carl and Fred discussing the role of common sense in reliability engineering and management.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss how faulty thinking that defies commo…

Warranty and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss what warranty and reliability mean for each other. They sounds like very related topics or ideas. But are they? Listen to this podcast to lear…

6 Sigma and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss what the idea of ‘6 sigma’ means for reliability. What is ‘6 sigma?’ Is it a buzzword? There are lots of different ideas on what ‘6 sigma’ is. …