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Chris and Fred discuss about this thing called a ‘k out of n’ system … and how most people don’t really know about how they contribute to system reliability. Do you know what the reliability curve of a ‘k out of n’ system looks like when compared to series or parallel systems? Don’t know what these systems are? Listen to this podcast!
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Chris and Fred discuss some of the things we have learned in the world of reliability directly due to World War II. Not many people know that around one third of today’s medical vaccines were developed out of necessity from World War II … and something similar happened when it came to making things reliable.
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to ‘assume’ something. We assume things all the time in our daily lives. We would never get anything done if we didn’t rely on quick ‘guesses’ about the world around us. But then there are those ‘assumptions’ that get us in trouble. So what’s the difference?
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Chris and Fred discuss when you should do this thing called Monte Carlo simulation? … in fact … what is it?
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Chris and Fred discuss how we can go about estimating reliability … especially when you don’t have a lot of data, experience or other things that textbooks say you need to have to estimate reliability?
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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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Chris and Fred discuss Military Handbook 217 Version F for the ‘Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment’ or MIL-HDBK 217F … and why being forced to use it is borderline evil.
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Chris and Fred discuss how to approach reliability objectives and testing for consumable elements of a product or system.
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Chris and Fred discuss the Military Handbook 217 Version F (from 1991 no less) … again? Ever heard of it?
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Dianna and Chris discussing product reliability in complex supply chains.
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Chris and Dianna discuss the relationship between reliability engineering and sustainability (or anything else that is environmentally friendly). Is there some link between the two?
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Chris and Carl discuss where reliability engineering training is going … noting that Chris and Carl do a lot of it.
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Carl and Chris discussing the future of FMEA, sharing their vision for where this method is headed.
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Chris and Fred discuss how to become a reliability engineering consultant. Is this something you are interested in?
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Chris and Fred discuss the role of regulations … good, bad and ugly.
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