The Right to Repair
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Kirk and Fred discuss new efforts in states to legislate the consumer’s right to repair equipment they have purchased.
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SOR 865 The Right to Repair
SOR 856 ChatGPT and Reliability
ChatGPT and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discuss the use of artificial intelligence engines such as ChatGPT in Reliability Engineering. A copy of the ChatGPT questions and responses that we discuss on this podcast is listed in the show notes below.
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SOR 855 Mechanical Lessons Learned
Mechanical Lessons Learned
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s recent trip to the Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) and the reliability of Pinball Machines which new designs have been produced for over six decades. Some of the mechanical assemblies have not changed in design for those many decades, even though some changes would be simple and useful, but change is difficult in this very small group of manufacturers.
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SOR 848 Monitoring Manufacturing Product Reliability
Monitoring Manufacturing Product Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to ensure that the quality and reliability of the last units produced from a manufacturing line is the same as the first units produced.
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SOR 847 Issues with Single Stress Testing
Issues with Single Stress Testing
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Kirk and Fred discussing a question from a listener regarding a specific failure mechanism and time to failure for the same, and how most failures are not due to a single stress condition.
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SOR 836 Backup Balance
Backup Balance
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Kirk and Fred discussing how much we should invest in backup power or systems redundancy to prepare for rare weather or use conditions.
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SOR 835 Role of Technical Papers
Role of Technical Papers
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Kirk and Fred discussing technical papers, which Fred and Kirk have a few on the website Research Gate, and the role they play in the reliability engineering world.
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SOR 826 Reliability and Statistics
Reliability and Statistics
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of statistics in reliability engineering, where they are useful and where their use may not be the most efficient way to find and fix the cause of failure.
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SOR 825 Learning about Failures
Learning about Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the idea of listing of failure mechanisms and their different viewpoints on how we learn some of the common failure mechanisms
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SOR 822 Identify Weak Points
Identify Weak Points
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Kirk and Fred discussing how a good reliability development process is to identify the weaknesses to improve a product including a recent fence repair at Kirk’s house.
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SOR 821 Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias
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Kirk and Fred discussing the paths they took in Reliability Engineering, how our past experience shaped our view of the best methods for improving the reliability of systems, and how we learn new information on reliability issues.
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SOR 806 MEOST Setup Remotely
MEOST Setup Remotely
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Kirk and Fred discussing Multiple Environmental Over Stress Test or MEOST.
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SOR 805 Reliability Spooky Stories
Reliability Spooky Stories
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Kirk and Fred discussing and reflecting on some of the spooky reliability problems we have seen (or not seen) that sometimes have haunted us on this Halloween 2022 episode of SOR
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SOR 797 Data and Automation of Analysis
Data and Automation of Analysis
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of current buzzwords in the field of reliability, the use of software data Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) and how many reliability professionals jump to software automation to analyze reliability issues.
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SOR 796 Very Long Term Storage Question
Very Long Term Storage Question
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to determine reliability for an LED device that needs to be operational after 250 years storage.
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