Limits of Block Diagrams

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Chris and Fred discuss how we go about modeling the reliability of systems … particularly with things called ‘block diagrams.’ Might this help you?

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Where do Confidence Bounds Come From

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Chris and Fred discuss where the ideas of ‘confidence bounds’ come from … and perhaps what they mean.

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Differing FMEA Approaches

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Carl and Fred discuss their overall approach to FMEA, what works and doesn’t work.

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Knotty Detection

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Carl and Fred discuss reader questions on FMEA detection, a subject which can be challenging and confusing. Detection is a key part of FMEA during product development as wel…

Learning Weibull Analysis

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Chris and Fred discuss Weibull Analysis and how it can help you can first take your ‘tentative’ steps to learn more about it.

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Learning From Those Closest

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Kirk and Fred discuss the fact that many times those on the assembly and production lines are the ones that have the most information for assembly issues and caus…

Getting Failure Feedback

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Kirk and Fred discuss the many required tests before market release and post market ongoing reliability testing and why testing is so necessary.

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Data Analysis Assumptions

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Greg and Fred discuss the importance and context of assumptions in data analysis.

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AI Challenges and Opportunities

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Greg and Fred discuss AI – both the challenges and opportunities for quality and reliability professionals.

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Robustness

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Philip and Fred discuss the idea of a robust design for a product or system.

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• To improve the ability of a product …

Vintage Experience

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Philip and Fred discuss the value of the experience our co-workers may be able to share.

• How important is Mentoring in the Workplace? Should we all be mentors?
• How do we …

Shorter Lifespan of Newer Appliances

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Carl and Fred discuss an article from the Wall Street Journal describing how newer appliances tend to have more complexity and shorter lifespans, and wha…

Value of Design FMEA

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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting question from a listener about modeling the money value of Design FMEAs.

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Forecasting Returns

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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about forecasting returns … and understanding things like warranty reliability for products that are ‘shipped all over the place? … at d…

Atlanta Airport Outage

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Chris and Fred discuss what happened during the ‘2017 Atlanta Airport Blackout’ where power was lost for 11 hours, hundreds of flights had to be diverted, passengers n…

Customer Support

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Dianna and Fred discuss the challenges as a customer when calling for customer support.

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• w…

Getting Questions Answered

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Dianna and Fred discuss the challenges in asking others reliability questions and getting questions answered.

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Moose Lodge Syndrome

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Greg and Fred discuss how institutions can and should adapt, but often don’t.  The result is that even most Fortune 500 companies have a 10 year half life.

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Check Your (Decision Making) Bias

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Greg and Fred discuss how bias is a part of all of us.  Our challenge is that bias impacts our decision making from simple rules of thumb to complex decisio…

Failure and Hazard Rate

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Chris and Fred discuss the similarities and differences between two terms that many people think mean the same thing.

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