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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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Tim Rodgers interviews Cliff concerning his book, People: A Reliability Success Story*
, and his work with teams on ‘soft’ skills.
Carl and Fred discuss the importance of people skills in achieving reliability objectives.
While technical skills and experience in the various reliability tools is essential, achieving reliability objectives requires working with engineering teams and influencing engineers in a positive manner.
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You have signed up to sit for the CRE exam.
You have the education and experience. Then, you look at the CRE body of knowledge—the breadth of statistics, the range of tools, the plethora of concepts.
You need to review the material. Where do you start?
Carl and Fred discuss the most common roadblocks to achieving high reliability in any company, and what the reliability practitioner can do to overcome each of the potential roadblocks.
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Adam and Fred discuss the importance of identifying the “change agents” in the organization and linking their message with the leadership.
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Tim Rodgers interviews Kirk Gray concerning his observations and advice concerning accelerated testing best practices.
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Kirk and Fred discuss a few of the essential steps as you turn on the HALT stresses.
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Kirk and Fred discuss a few of the essential steps before you turn on the HALT stresses.
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Tim and Fred discuss how to forge a mutually beneficial and trusting supplier relationships to improve reliability.
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Tim and Fred discuss the hallmarks of great supplier relationships that work.
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Tim Rodgers interviews Carl Carlson Effective FMEAs book*
and his work with teams conducting FMEAs.
You may already know my position on MTBF.
If not, do not use MTBF at all, ever, in any form. So what should we use instead?
I suggest using reliability, the probability of success over a specific duration.
Let’s discuss what will work for you.
Tim and Fred discuss the need to partner with suppliers and how to avoid the “vendor’s profit is in repairs” trap.
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