Robust Quality and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the Taguchi loss function and the problem of making it “in spec” but not on target.
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SOR 220 Robust Quality and Reliability
SOR 219 Marketing, Testing, Standards, and Reliability Claims
Marketing, Testing, Standards, and Reliability Claims
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Kirk and Fred discussing the question of testing of reliability claims with the many variations of a specification, such as water resistance or any specific performance criteria.
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SOR 209 Separate Quality and Reliability Departments?
Separate Quality and Reliability Departments?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the differences found between what is considered a “Quality” department issue, and what is a “Reliability” department issue.
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SOR 208 What is the Difference Between Quality and Reliability?
What is the Difference Between Quality and Reliability?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the way quality and reliability are seen as different although both may cause the product to be considered a failure in the eyes of the customers.
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SOR 192 What are the Biggest Challenges to Getting Real Failure Data on Real Products?
What are the Biggest Challenges to Getting Real Failure Data on Real Products?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of getting the failed products, especially low cost systems, back from the field to do failure analysis on.
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SOR 191 What do Reliability Engineers Do?
What do Reliability Engineers Do?
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Kirk and Fred discussing what Reliability Engineers do considering the past and current approaches to reliability development
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When Smart TV Content Delivery Fails, Who is to Blame?
A Crisis in the Home IT department
If you are the head of your home IT department, you may relate to this tale
Last night my wonderful wife Stacy was riddled with angst over the disruption of her binge watching a spy series, a mild crisis with our own IT hardware.
The cause of her disappointment was the failure of our new large screen Ultra High Definition (UHD) Smart TV to deliver a drama series with a reasonable picture and sound quality. [Read more…]
SOR 187 Customer Reliability Expectations Change Over Time
Customer Reliability Expectations Change Over Time
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Kirk and Fred discussing the increased expectations of reliability based on experience with past products
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SOR 186 How Important is Reliability
How Important is Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the value of reliability in consumer electronics in comparison to the rapid technological improvements.
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SOR 177 How do I Determine the Value of HALT?
How do I Determine the Value of HALT?
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to show management and other skeptics of highly accelerated limit testing how valuable it can be in improving reliability.
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SOR 176 Determine Which Failures Are Relevant
Determine Which Failures Are Relevant
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to determine when HALT failures are relevant or not relevant to what actually may fail in the field.
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SOR 163 How many stresses should you add to your HALT
SOR 163 How many stresses should you add to your HALT
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Kirk and Fred discussing the adaptability of a HALT process and what stresses should be included in a HALT evaluation.
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SOR 162 Do we have to follow the HALT test plan?
Do we have to follow the HALT test plan?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the creation of a HALT plan and how to adapt HALT plans based on what is discovered during the HALT process.
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SOR 161 HALT Sample Size
HALT Sample Size
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting samples to test during product development. Early prototypes of new products are typically scarce, expensive, and in high demand to many engineering teams to test. HALT testing requires pushing the product to operational limits and discovering what will fail which is scary for management and engineers that do not understand the value of information that is discovered with empirical limit tests.
