Can Reliability be Measured without Physical Testing?

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Fred and Carl discuss the use of analytical tools to assess and measure reliability.
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What Are Some of the Execution Pitfalls for Reliability Plans?

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Fred and Carl discuss the subject of executing the tasks from a reliability plan.
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Lessons Learned in Writing Effective Reliability Plans

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Fred and Carl discuss the lessons learned from years of experience in working with companies in developing reliability plans.
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The What, Who, How, When, and Why of Reliability Tasks

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Carl and Fred discuss reliability tasks and how we should approach reliability planning. Details including the rationale need to be clear.
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Supplier Not Meeting Your Reliability Requirements

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Carl and Fred discuss including reliability specifications in supplier requirements, too.

We discuss the impact of the focus on cost and delivery and adding reliability to the discussion and contracts.
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Setting Reliability Objectives Like Any Specification

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Carl and Fred discuss setting reliability requirements.

Instead of a soft goal or “generally good” thing to achieve, make them specific and clear. Make them a requirement to for the development teams to achieve.
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The Environment is Part of the Definition of Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the connection of environmental testing to the reliability performance of a product.

The relationship between performance elements of a product and how they perform in the range of environmental conditions expected.
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Senior Management’s Role Concerning Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the role of senior managers within the reliability program.

Also when and how managers should get involved with your reliability program. And, remember your senior management can delegate tasks, not their responsibility.
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Design for Reliability and Testing

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Carl and Fred discuss the general definition of design for reliability, then the essential essence of DFR. The ability to influence the point of decision during the design and development process.
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The Role of People Skills to Achieve Reliability Objectives

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Carl and Fred discuss the importance of people skills in achieving reliability objectives.

While technical skills and experience in the various reliability tools is essential, achieving reliability objectives requires working with engineering teams and influencing engineers in a positive manner.
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Overcoming Roadblocks to Achieve Reliability Performance

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Carl and Fred discuss the most common roadblocks to achieving high reliability in any company, and what the reliability practitioner can do to overcome each of the potential roadblocks.
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How to Get Started as a new Reliability Engineer

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Companies have high expectations for safety and reliability.

New reliability engineers face significant challenges when trying to meet these challenges. It is important to be guided by the right philosophy and approach and to ask the right questions.

Fred and Carl discuss these topics in this podcast episode.
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Importance of Reliability Goal and Vision Discussions

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Setting reliability targets requires much more than assigning a reliability number.

Reliability targets need to include the intended function of the system or component, the probability of achieving the intended function, the operating conditions and environment, and the time over which reliability needs to be achieved.

Management must be directly involved in developing and communicating the reliability vision and ensuring the necessary steps to achieving reliability are in place.

Fred and Carl discuss these topics in this podcast episode. 

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High-Level Steps to Create Your Reliability Program

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Every company desires to be a leader in achieving high reliability for its products and processes throughout the service life.

This objective can be difficult, given cost and timing pressures experienced by companies around the world today. In order to achieve the highest possible reliability, it is often necessary to develop and implement a reliability plan.

This naturally brings certain topics and questions into view: What is a reliability plan and how should it be developed? Which reliability tools should be included in a reliability plan and how are these tools selected?

Fred and Carl discuss these topics in this podcast episode.

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