Creating Reliability Awareness
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Chris and Fred discuss how to help me, you and the people around us more aware of reliability (and reliability engineering)? Good question!
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SOR 915 Creating Reliability Awareness
SOR 896 Q & R Management: Independence vs. Integration
Quality and Reliability Management: Independence vs. Integration
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Carl and Dianna sharing experiences with different forms of managing quality and reliability activities. The importance of independence was compared to the importance of integrating with the design activities. What works, what doesn’t work, and why?
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SOR 888 The Role of Regulations
The Role of Regulations
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Chris and Fred discuss the role of regulations … good, bad and ugly.
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SOR 844 Routine Reliability
Routine Reliability
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Dianna and Fred discussing routine reliability from a listener’s question: when creating a reliability plan for a project, how do we separate the routine and unique parts of reliability activities?
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SOR 843 Hidden Reliability Wins
Hidden Reliability Wins
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Dianna and Fred discussing hidden reliability wins: when reliability efforts go right, things don’t go wrong. So then, how can reliability engineers quantify their work?
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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 789 Reliability of Produce
Reliability of Produce
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Kirk and Fred discussing about a subject that is quite different from electronics and systems, that is the degradation of fruit and vegetables and prevention of aging or preservation of fruit.
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SOR 747 Celebrating Reliability Success
Celebrating Reliability Success
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about when it is OK to celebrate reliability successes. Specifically, how long you have to wait to feel comfortable you have a successful product when nothing bad happens.
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SOR 714 Achieving or Calculating Reliability
SOR 706 What Reliability is Good Enough
What Reliability is Good Enough
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Kirk and Fred discussing the expectations of reliability of their own vehicles and some of the wear out mechanisms we expect.
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286 – Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg
Current Trends in Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg
It’s my pleasure to welcome back Fred Schenkel Berg to the podcast.
In this episode we covered:
- I see a lot of people working remote, maybe not full-time, but part-time as reliability engineers, is this the new normal and can they effectively do their job working remote?
- Is this identifying gaps in that data that we’ve overcome in other ways, or is it increasing the demand for different types of data?
- How has the facilitation changed, for example, for facilitating RCA or FMEA, if you’ve seen that done remotely? Well, have you heard of it being done well?
SOR 692 Reliability and Pumping Water
Reliability and Pumping Water
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Chris and Fred discussing service reliability based on a listener question where we don’t just look at reliability as it applies to an item, product or device. Instead … we look at ‘reliability of a service’ … or system, … or process. How can this help a farmer who is trying to work out how to best supply water to his cattle?
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SOR 690 Reliability and Simplicity
Reliability and Simplicity
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Kirk and Fred discussing marketing reliability, brand reputation for reliability along with tradeoffs between making equipment simple and reliable.
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SOR 672 Make or Check Reliability
Make or Check Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘making’ and ‘checking’ reliability. And there is a difference. This podcast follows on from Chris’s article about a US Department of Defense (DoD) quick reference guide on a ‘Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Body of Knowledge.’ The problem with this document was it was all about ‘checking’ reliability – and not enough ‘making’ reliability.
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SOR 654 Reliability Starts at the Top
Reliability Starts at the Top
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability starts at the top of every organization. And by that, we mean … leadership. What does that mean? How can the CEO be more important for reliability performance than the reliability engineer with decades of experience and post-graduate qualifications?
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