Doing Calculations
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Chris and Fred discuss how to calculate ‘confidence’ and other things regarding probability and statistics … particularly as it applies to reliability!
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SOR 1008 Doing Calculations
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SOR 1001 Practice Data Sets
Practice Data Sets
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Chris and Fred discuss the ability to get ‘data sets’ to practice reliability analysis on! … sounds like a party …
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SOR 999 Product Life Time
Product Life Time
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Chris and Fred discuss how long stuff lasts! … or how long something should last! … how do you ‘know’ what it should be?
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SOR 998 Reliability and Politics
Reliability and Politics
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability can sometimes be linked to politics (… at least in some way). Is this an experience you share?
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SOR 997 Preparing to Interview
Preparing to Interview
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Chris and Fred discuss how to make a good impression when interviewing for a reliability engineering position. How do you prepare?
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SOR 992 Past Good and Bad Knowledge
Past Good and Bad Knowledge
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Chris and Fred discuss the so-called ‘bedrock documents and statistics’ that are used over and over again as if they are universally correct – even though they might have nothing to do with ‘your’ machines or systems. WHY?
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SOR 991 What is MLE?
What is MLE?
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Chris and Fred discuss the three-letter acronym ‘MLE’ stands for? Well, it stands for ‘maximum likelihood estimate.’ Ever heard of it? Do you know what it means?
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SOR 984 Instead of Reliability Prediction
Instead of Reliability Prediction
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability prediction and how it can relate to the ‘design’ phase when there is no data. How do you ‘predict reliability?’
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SOR 983 Good Reliability Testing
Good Reliability Testing
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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between good and poor reliability testing.
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SOR 976 Reliability in a Short Term Org
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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SOR 975 Eye-Popping Stunning Results
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 this? Is this possible?
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SOR 972 An Idea Short Explainer Videos
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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SOR 971 FRACAS and CMMS
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 how they relate.
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SOR 966 Why is PoF so Hard?
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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SOR 965 MTBF, Really?
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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