High Precision Planning and Maintenance

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Philip and Fred discuss new shiny objects and why digital twins and IIOT will not solve your core problems.

High Precision Planning (HPP) supports Hig…

Asset Management vs Performance

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Philip and Fred discuss the important differences between Asset Management “Systems” and “Asset Performance”. Philip has been teaching at the university level…

Effect and Likelihood

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Carl and Fred discuss a listener question on FMEA, about reducing the severity level through mitigation strategy. Specifically, can FMEA reduce the likelihood of the ef…

Conveying FMEA Results

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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting listener question. The listener’s management asked him to create an “eye-popping” chart that summarizes the results on an FMEA.

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Supply Management and Context

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Greg and Fred discuss why today’s business model is often based on managing an organization’s brand and outsourcing design, reliability, and quality.

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Telling the Boss NO

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Greg and Fred discuss work communications and job politics.  Greg takes the management point of view.  Fred advocates the individual contributor point of view.

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Reliability in a Short Term Org

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Chris and Fred discuss the problems we experience when we are in an organization with very ‘short-term’ thinking. What can we do?

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Eye-Popping Stunning Results

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Chris and Fred discuss the challenge of being asked by someone to show (or visualize) stunning, eye-popping results for some reliability activity. How do we do t…

New Position Advice

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Kirk and Fred discuss the advice we would give a engineer just starting a career in Reliability Engineering

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the way to best…

Reliability Allocation Methods

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Kirk and Fred discuss reliability allocations for individual components and subsystems.

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Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss a question from one of o…

An Idea Short Explainer Videos

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Chris and Fred discuss how short, 1-minute explainer videos could help reliability engineers … especially new ones!

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FRACAS and CMMS

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Chris and Fred discuss what Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CSSM) are … and what they are not … and …

What is a Mode?

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Carl and Fred discuss why understanding the mode of failure is essential in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

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Common Reliability Mistakes

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Carl and Fred discuss some of the most common reliability mistakes they have seen in their careers, both ones they have personally made or viewed.

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Selecting Tools to Solve Problems

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Dianna and Fred discuss selecting tools to solve problems that are outside of the workplace, too!

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Are Silos an Issue?

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Dianna and Fred discuss workplace politics: are silos an issue?

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Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss workplace politics: are silos an issue?

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Why is PoF so Hard?

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Chris and Fred discuss why the Physics of Failure (PoF) is hard to model? … or is it?

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how the Physics of Failure (PoF) is …

MTBF, Really?

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Chris and Fred discuss the MTBF … again. And again. People don’t (want to) get it. So here we go again …

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Join Chris and Fred as they discuss the MTBF and why it sho…

Finding Failures and Firefighting

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Kirk and Fred discuss new product market release schedule pressures, and then after customers start finding reliability issues, the actual firefighting be…

Proving HALT Works

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Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of showing those new to limit discovery using HALT and proving does find relevant future field issues that either already have occurred…