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Chris and Fred discuss different strategies for reliability. We start with a couple of strategies that don’t work (big shout out to virtually every military customer … ever!) and then come up with some approaches that have been shown to work – at least in some circumstances. And that is the key – different scenarios demand different strategies. Sound interesting? Then this is the podcast for you.
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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to design for the anticipated extreme corner case of environmental stresses that some percentage of the product may see in use.
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Adam and Fred discussing tools for assessing risk to the products performance in the field
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Adam and Chris discussing the difference between organizational strength’s in evolutionary vs revolutionary design process
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Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, with focus on the second principle.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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Adam and Fred discussing the effectiveness of the “design Freeze” methodology in the product development process effectiveness.
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Chris and Fred discuss some of the challenges and issues faced by companies developing a ‘brand new’ product.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the many causes and contributors to products failing after purchase. How do we know which factors are the largest contributor to causing failures?
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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of robust design, what it is, and how it relates to reliability programs.
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Today’s episode is about the role of training in affecting change. Sometimes you need to train the workforce to work better than the beginners but that completely depends on the culture of the organization and skills, knowledge, and abilities of the employees working out there.
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This episode of the weekly podcast covers the need of designing for maintainability. It is one of the biggest processes involved in the area of reliability and helps in improving the availability of the equipment in time. So first of all, we need to understand what this term is —and the tools and techniques that are required to make it successful.
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This episode is about designing for reliability. It has been proven over time that the best inventions are designed properly after planning them and before implementation — even in the earlier times people used to draw things before they actually made them. After you have done an analysis of the equipment, there is not even close to good probability to make that product completely reliable. That is why a good design should be made before developing anything for which companies hire professional designers and good ones have their own designing teams too.
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Carl and Fred discuss the early design process and the reliability approach that can best integrate reliability objectives with the design team.
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Adam and Ken Haven, CEO of Acorn Product Development, discuss the differences between the creative design process in China vs. North America.
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