Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s purchase of a new laptop and his expectations of reliability.
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SOR 411 Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
SOR 410 How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
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Kirk and Fred discussing recent aircraft failures and how suppliers sort through all the reported data on failures and complaints from the field.
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SOR 407 Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress?
Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress?
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Kirk and Fred discussing manufacturing thermal specifications of components and how HALT is used to find margins beyond specifications.
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SOR 406 Variability of Weather Data
Variability of Weather Data
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Kirk and Fred discussing the differences in weather conditions in their home locations and how variable extremes in environmental conditions and impacts to equipment design and its reliability.
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SOR 403 How to Balance Features and Reliability
How to Balance Features and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing decisions made regarding the costs, features and reliability when make a purchase of home appliances and other consumer products.
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SOR 402 How to Build An Understanding of HALT
How to Build An Understanding of HALT
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Kirk and Fred discussing good, better and best ways to introduce and motivate a company to use weakness discovery test methodology.
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SOR 393 How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
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Kirk and Fred discussing how his career path led to being a reliability engineer and meeting a working with Gregg Hobbs. Ph.D. the reliability leader that gave him a new perspective on HALT and HASS.
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SOR 392 Car Reliability Exceptions Declared by Manufacturer
Car Reliability Exceptions Declared by Manufacturer
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Kirk and Fred discussing his purchase of a new car and the manufacturers environmental condition as declared in the owners manual.
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SOR 380 How to Find an Intermittent Failure Mechanism?
How to Find an Intermittent Failure Mechanism?
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Kirk and Fred discussing ways to find intermittent system failures.
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SOR 379 What is Operational Failure and How Do I Know?
What is Operational Failure and How Do I Know?
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Kirk and Fred discussing a real case of product failure for a OEM sub-supplier and determining how to isolate the cause
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SOR 372 Best Practices When Dealing with Field Failures
Best Practices When Dealing with Field Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the value of getting field failures returned for failure analysis and best practices in determining the causes.
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SOR 371 Quality and Reliability Relationship
Quality and Reliability Relationship
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relationship between quality and reliability. Quality can lead to a functional failure but sometimes is cosmetic or feel of a product.
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SOR 364 Keeping Failure Knowledge Alive
Keeping Failure Knowledge Alive
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of keeping the failure data and details of past failures of products in order to make more reliable products.
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SOR 363 How to Best Learn from Previous Products
How to Best Learn from Previous Products
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Kirk and Fred discussing the problem of getting failure data from predecessor products for many companies. Without detailed useful and verified failure data, it is difficult to improve reliability
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SOR 356 How Reliable Does Your Product Need to Be
How Reliable Does Your Product Need to Be
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relation of costs versus how much reliability is needed for the design and production of electronics systems
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