Field and Operational Time

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Chris and Fred discuss a listener’s question about dealing with different ‘duration’ metrics for their field data … so how do we find things like ‘operating time’ …

Risk vs Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss whether the reliability community should focus on the body of knowledge associated with risk or reliability.

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When I Know it’s Not Right

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Carl and Fred discuss a question brought up at recent conference: what do you do when you are supposed to do something that you know is not the right thing to do? …

When to Consider Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discuss at what point in the product development process should we consider applying reliability engineering to the concept and actual prototypes.

Predicting the Unknowns

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Kirk and Fred discuss the world of reliability predictions and the issue of predictions when many, if not most of the causes of unreliability, are surprises.

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Be Helpful

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Chris and Fred discuss the importance of being helpful when it comes to reliability engineering. After all, it is much easier to have people want to come to you as opposed to forc…

Interpreting formulae and not just generating numbers …

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Chris and Fred discuss how formulae (or formulas!) can be very important … but it is way more important to understand what formulae re…

Change Management Success

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Greg and Fred discuss organizational change management and behavior change.  Greg’s change management is sell the sizzle.  Fred’s is give them the steak.  Discover …

Contingency and Risk Planning

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Greg and Fred discuss various situations where contingency and risk planning may be required.

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FTA vs RBD

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Chris and Fred discuss the differences, pros and cons of FTA (fault tree analysis) and RBD (reliability block diagrams). Need to learn more about how to model system reliability? …

K out of N Systems

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Chris and Fred discuss about this thing called a ‘k out of n’ system … and how most people don’t really know about how they contribute to system reliability. Do you know w…

FMEA Detection – Useful?

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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about assessing risk related to detection, as part of FMEA procedure, specifically its usefulness and application.

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Reliability Goals and Requirements

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Carl and Fred discuss the importance of well-written reliability requirements and whether they should be goals or actual requirements.

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Redundancy Risk Balance

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Greg and Fred discuss what is redundancy and why it’s a critical business tool.

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Risk and Reliability Lenses

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Greg and Fred discuss risk and reliability lenses for solving today’s dynamic problems.

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Reliability from WWII

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Chris and Fred discuss some of the things we have learned in the world of reliability directly due to World War II. Not many people know that around one third of today’…

Just Assuming

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to ‘assume’ something. We assume things all the time in our daily lives. We would never get anything done if we didn’t rely on quick ‘guess…

Regulation Reducing Safety

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Greg and Fred discuss conformity assessment and what should and can you do to comply with a regulatory requirement.

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Improving Information

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Greg and Fred discuss how to improve your ability to get the right information to solve the right problems.

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When to do Monte Carlo Simulation (… and what is it)?

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Chris and Fred discuss when you should do this thing called Monte Carlo simulation? … in fact … what is it?

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