Keeping Failure Knowledge Alive
Abstract
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 364 Keeping Failure Knowledge Alive
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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SOR 355 Quantifying Life in Solid State Electronics
Quantifying Life in Solid State Electronics
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of quantifying the amount of life there is in solid state electronics with no moving parts.
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SOR 351 Is There a Short Reliability Design Problem?
Is There a Short Reliability Design Problem?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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SOR 350 The Death of Military Handbook 217
The Death of Military Handbook 217
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Kirk and Fred discussing the long, ever-impending death of the outdated reliability prediction handbook and its progeny.
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SOR 340 Being Curious about Field Failures
Being Curious about Field Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the notion that being curious about failures is a key element of being a reliability engineer.
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SOR 339 Root Cause Analysis and Chain of Events
Root Cause Analysis and Chain of Events
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulties in sorting out a root cause when it requires a unique sequence of events.
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SOR 330 Pinball Reliability from an Operators Viewpoint
Pinball Reliability from an Operators Viewpoint
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Kirk and Ryan Wanger discussing reliability in pinball machines and the challenge of keeping his many pinball machines operational in the field.
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SOR 329 Why Do Some Still Use Parts Count Predictions?
Why Do Some Still Use Parts Count Predictions?
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Kirk and Fred discuss the continued use of prediction models in reliability engineering, such as MIL-HDBK 217F or any other models based on the 217 which is last revised in 1995.
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SOR 328 Cables and Connectors and HALT
Cables and Connectors and HALT
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Kirk and Fred discussing the benefits and limits of using HALT for finding issues with cables and connectors, and common cause for many failures or intermittent operation in electronic hardware.
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Will reparable designs help reduce electronics waste?
Another one bites the dust!
Apparently, my lovely wife is one of the best at finding stress testing limits of kitchen blenders, or we are unlucky at getting blenders that had some latent defect. She has discovered the destruct limit of 3 blenders within months of use. She does not do in the formal HALT methodology, as they break in what most would consider normal use conditions. It may have been a valid HALT evaluation if she had started with soft or easy to blend materials, starting with o ice or nuts and measured the time to reach its destruct limit. [Read more…]
SOR 305 Customer Service and Reliability
Customer Service and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing personal experiences in customer service and good and bad aspects of having an IPhone battery replaced.
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SOR 304 Is HALT Just Another Tool in the Tool Bag?
Is HALT Just Another Tool in the Tool Bag?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the understanding of HALT and the fact that many see as HALT, the finding of operational limits and weaknesses, as “just another tool in the reliability engineering tool bag” and how for Kirk it is most efficient approach to reliability development.
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SOR 291 Let’s Change the Reliability Engineering Practice
Let’s Change the Reliability Engineering Practice
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Kirk and Fred discussing the continued need to change much of the activities in reliability engineering in the goal of ensuring and improving the reliability of electronics and electro-mechanical systems.
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