Reliability Tradeoffs

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Kirk and Fred discuss the tradeoffs involved in developing a reliable product.

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss how, during product development, we have t…

Service Life Requirements

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Enrico and Fred discuss one of the most critical questions in reliability engineering.

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Join Enrico and Fred in an engaging discussion on one of the most…

Getting it Right

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Philip and Fred discuss the value of precision maintenance.

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss the need to purchase, install, and maintain equipment with preci…

Competing Risk or Not

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Philip and Fred discuss the considerations when the dataset does not have competing risks.

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss the difference in data analy…

FMEA and AI

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Carl and Fred discuss Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. There are emerging integration opportunities and challenges, which will be discussed in this …

NUDD

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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting question from an Accendo listener. The question has to do with what is called NUDD: New, Unique, Difficult, Different.
Specifically the listener’s m…

Defined Environment

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Kirk and Fred discuss that customers may use their products, such as washing machines, in more stressful environments than the design specifies or recommends.

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Lasting Just Long Enough

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Kirk and Fred discuss the subject of reliability and how appliance manufacturing companies may design for a limited life in order to sell new models.

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Joi…

Make it Less Robust

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Dianna and Fred discuss requests to engineers to make it less robust.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss the situation where engineers are asked to make som…

Conference Value

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Dianna and Fred discuss conference value: maximizing the benefits of conferences and assessing their value for participation.

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Available Reliability Information

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Chris and Fred discuss how to deal with trying to find ‘reliability characteristics’ when you don’t have a lot of information. Sound familiar?

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Warranty Analysis for Repairable Systems

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Chris and Fred discuss how we do warranty analysis … which usually means trying to understand how many things fail during a warranty period (before y…

Starting a Consultancy

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Dianna and Fred discuss starting a consultancy.

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss starting a consultancy.

Interested in becoming a consultant? This epis…

Thermal HALT

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Kirk and Fred discuss a paper Kirk wrote about how thermal HALT can be a tool for finding marginal signal integrity issues.

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss Kirk’s…

Dealing with Ongoing Changes

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Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of adding changes to a product during the development process so that they can design and build the prototypes.

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Executing the Plan

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Carl and Fred continue discussing the listener question about building an effective reliability program. After discussing some of the finer points about creating the relia…

Building a Reliability Program

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Carl and Fred discuss a voice message received on the Accendo Reliability “speak pipe.” The caller is trying to build a reliability program at his company. The…

Getting Started with Vibration Testing

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Chris and Fred discuss how we get started with vibration testing. We are often told (or feel like) we need to conduct vibration testing on new products…

MTBF and an Indicator

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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called the MTBF … and how it (perhaps!) can be used in some reliability engineering applications … sometimes!

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What Counts

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Carl and Fred discuss a listener question about what type of field or test issues to count when assessing or estimating reliability in a project.

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