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Chris and Fred discuss the challenge of being asked by someone to show (or visualize) stunning, eye-popping results for some reliability activity. How do we do this? Is this possible?
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Chris and Fred discuss how short, 1-minute explainer videos could help reliability engineers … especially new ones!
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Chris and Fred discuss what Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CSSM) are … and what they are not … and how they relate.
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Chris and Fred discuss why the Physics of Failure (PoF) is hard to model? … or is it?
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Chris and Fred discuss the MTBF … again. And again. People don’t (want to) get it. So here we go again …
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Chris and Fred discuss how we go about modeling the reliability of systems … particularly with things called ‘block diagrams.’ Might this help you?
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Chris and Fred discuss where the ideas of ‘confidence bounds’ come from … and perhaps what they mean.
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Chris and Fred discuss Weibull Analysis and how it can help you can first take your ‘tentative’ steps to learn more about it.
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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about forecasting returns … and understanding things like warranty reliability for products that are ‘shipped all over the place? … at different times? Sound familiar?
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Chris and Fred discuss what happened during the ‘2017 Atlanta Airport Blackout’ where power was lost for 11 hours, hundreds of flights had to be diverted, passengers needed to be housed in hotels, and lots of other costly things. Surely this was due to some sort of unforeseeable event bordering on the ‘supernatural?’ Nope. Not even a little bit.
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Chris and Fred discuss the similarities and differences between two terms that many people think mean the same thing.
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Chris and Fred discuss a listener’s question about dealing with different ‘duration’ metrics for their field data … so how do we find things like ‘operating time’ and other age-related metrics that aren’t calendar time that simply aren’t there?
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Chris and Fred discuss the importance of being helpful when it comes to reliability engineering. After all, it is much easier to have people want to come to you as opposed to forcing them to do something they don’t want to. To be influential is to be helpful.
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Chris and Fred discuss how formulae (or formulas!) can be very important … but it is way more important to understand what formulae represent, and how they work. Listen to this podcast if you want to learn more!
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Chris and Fred discuss the differences, pros and cons of FTA (fault tree analysis) and RBD (reliability block diagrams). Need to learn more about how to model system reliability? Do you struggle to spell FTA or RBDs? Listen to this podcast!
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