Fred talks about the NoMTBF blog and movement

Did you know I was interviewed for the Dare to Know podcast? The interview was fun, check it out here.

Note: this interview was some time ago (about 10 years back), near the start of the article series called NoMTBF. My thoughts haven’t changed very much. Plus, it seems this campaign is slowly working across our profession.

The Dare to Know podcast Interview

Tim Rodgers interviews Fred Schenkelberg concerning his blog, No MTBF, and his mission to eradicate the common misuse of MTBF.

Fred Schenkelberg is a reliability engineering and management consultant at FMS Reliability. He’s a lecturer at the University of Maryland, and he’s been an active contributor to both the IEEE and the ASQ Reliability Divisions.

Fred re-established Hewlett-Packard’s corporate reliability program in the late 1990s, and also worked as a reliability consultant at Microsoft and a manufacturing engineer at Raychem.

In this episode, Fred Schenkelberg discusses:

• Why MTBF is a poor reliability metric
• Common objections to eliminating MTBF
• Alternatives to MTBF