Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
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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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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Kirk and Fred discuss at what point in the product development process should we consider applying reliability engineering to the concept and actual prototypes.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the world of reliability predictions and the issue of predictions when many, if not most of the causes of unreliability, are surprises.
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Kirk and Fred discuss how to deal with those who have said that they tried using the HALT methodology with a past project but did not find any benefit from it.
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Kirk and Fred discuss whether we should use time or number of cycles or total time a product has been available for use.
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Kirk and Fred discuss using Design for Reliability (DFR) for reliability development of a new product.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the use and tradeoffs of using external environmental testing and failure analysis labs versus having in-house equipment
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Kirk and Fred discuss the question of using a standard series of environmental test for reliability development.
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Kirk and Fred discuss a test plan sent to Kirk and how this plan misses the point of accelerated testing.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent product failure that Kirk had with the manufacturer of his e-bike, and the positive outcome.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the use of assumptions in the reliability models, testing, and predictions
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of backups and system redundancy in the design of electronics for increased reliability.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a accelerated stress test that a listener was going to use a different combination of stresses on samples to determine life estimates.
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Kirk and Fred discuss about a career progression in the field of reliability engineering and job movement in this post-pandemic work world.
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