Dealing with Ongoing Changes
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Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of adding changes to a product during the development process so that they can design and build the prototypes.
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SOR 1028 Dealing with Ongoing Changes
SOR 1016 Do it Right the First Time
Do it Right the First Time
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Kirk and Fred discuss the risks to reliability of having to rework or human handling of circuit boards and rework in general.
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SOR 1015 Moisture Failure Mechanisms
SOR 1005 Tech Obsolescence
Tech Obsolescence
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Kirk and Fred discuss long-term reliability and the speed of technological obsolescence.
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SOR 1004 Confirmation Bias with HALT
Confirmation Bias with HALT
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Kirk and Fred discuss the problem or benefits of having confirmation bias, where we accept or reject test results based on expectations.
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SOR 1000 The 1,000th Episode
The 1,000th Episode
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Kirk and Fred and a long-time listener, Nik Sharpe, discuss the long history of doing this podcast from the first Speaking of Reliability podcast SOR #1, “Can you pass HALT?” recorded June 20th, 2015, to this 1000th episode.
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SOR 990 Impact of IoT on Maintenance
Impact of IoT on Maintenance
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Kirk and Fred discuss the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on maintenance and the data feedback to the manufacturer on usage and failure data.
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SOR 989 No Trouble Found Issue
No Trouble Found Issue
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Kirk and Fred delve into the crucial topic of managing returned parts and products, even those that are functioning perfectly.
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SOR 974 New Position Advice
New Position Advice
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Kirk and Fred discuss the advice we would give a engineer just starting a career in Reliability Engineering
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SOR 973 Reliability Allocation Methods
Reliability Allocation Methods
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Kirk and Fred discuss reliability allocations for individual components and subsystems.
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SOR 964 Finding Failures and Firefighting
Finding Failures and Firefighting
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Kirk and Fred discuss new product market release schedule pressures, and then after customers start finding reliability issues, the actual firefighting begins. Many times, those who quickly can fix the causes of failures, the firefighters, get many more accolades than those who find and mitigate product weaknesses that become failures during the design and development phase.
SOR 963 Proving HALT Works
Proving HALT Works
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Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of showing those new to limit discovery using HALT and proving does find relevant future field issues that either already have occurred in a new released product, or in a product under development.
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No Evidence of Correlation: Field failures and Traditional Reliability Engineering
Historically, Reliability Engineering of Electronics has been dominated by the belief that 1) The life or percentage of complex hardware failures that occur over time can be estimated, predicted, or modeled, and 2) the Reliability of electronic systems can be calculated or estimated through statistical and probabilistic methods to improve hardware reliability. The amazing thing about this is that during the many decades that reliability
[Read more…]SOR 957 Learning From Those Closest
Learning From Those Closest
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Kirk and Fred discuss the fact that many times those on the assembly and production lines are the ones that have the most information for assembly issues and causes of failures, yet the information they have is not heard by the engineers and management that could improve it.
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SOR 956 Getting Failure Feedback
Getting Failure Feedback
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Kirk and Fred discuss the many required tests before market release and post market ongoing reliability testing and why testing is so necessary.
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