Is a Test to Pass Useful?

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Kirk and Fred discussing the desire of everyone to “Pass the Tests”, which in reliability testing may not provide the best information on a products potential relia…

Checkbox Activities

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Kirk and Fred discussing those reliability procedures such as cookbook predictions that are “check the box” activities and do not add value and may be misleading

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How is Reliability Engineering Changing

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Fred discusses a couple of noticeable trends affecting our profession.

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Better Performance not Just Fewer Failures

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Chris and Fred discuss what performance actually means. When it comes to reliability engineering … is this simply having fewer failures? NO! There …

Standards and Intent

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Chris and Fred discuss how we use standards for reliability engineering, safety, and other similar fields. Standards have a place in everything we do. But issues come wh…

Reliability Tools: Supporting Good Decisions and Adding Value

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Carl and Fred discussing the myriad of reliability methods and tools, and how they can be differentiated by how they support pro…

Approach to Platform Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing a reliability approach where the focus becomes core functions. This is compared to approaching reliability at the project level.

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Lesson Learned Doing Virtual Work

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Carl and Fred discussing the timely subject of working from home in the virtual world. Whether you are running a meeting, participating in an FMEA, teaching…

FMEA and Legal Considerations

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Carl and Fred discussing common sense legal guidelines for doing FMEAs. The focus of FMEAs should be first and foremost on improving designs and manufacturing p…

What should a Body of Knowledge Do?

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Chris and Fred discuss what a ‘body of knowledge’ or ‘BOK’ should do? And by this we mean a document or book that outlines the key ideas or things you sho…

Knowledge vs Rote

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Chris and Fred discuss the urge for (us) reliability engineers to rush to use a tool – and not understand what that tool does, how it works, or even if it answers the quest…

MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve

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Kirk and Fred discussing how testing a small sample size of a new product results on a larger margin of error for the larger population.

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The Balance of Good Enough

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Kirk and Fred discussing the trade-offs between selling more reliable equipment for different markets, costs, and how reliable can we make a product

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Ready to Use Field Data

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Adam and Fred discussing the best methods for integrating field data into established reliability programs.

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Customer Satisfaction and Reliability Perception

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Adam and Fred discussing how customer satisfaction with a product affects their perception about reliability performance.

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Use Case 7 and HALT

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Adam and Fred discussing how the philosophy of HALT and Use Case 7 share some common ground.

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Understand Perception Issues

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Philip and Fred discussing the need to understand our perception or frame of reference bias.

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You Gotta Think – Part 1 of 2

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Philip and Fred discussing why we need to think when we work with reliability in a light hearted discussion that topics like the speed of light, way back when i…

Influence As a Small Buyer

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Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem of ‘influence’ or lack thereof when you are a small buyer. Influence to get reliable components. Influence to have that …

Time Discussing Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss the idea of timing how long you spend talking about ‘reliability engineering.’ And by this, we mean conversation where you (1) proactively …