Implementing System Reliability Growth

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Adam and Kirk discuss the application of Reliability Growth within a product development program.
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Vibration Techniques and Tools for HALT

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Adam and Kirk discuss the specifics of vibration in HALT and other vibration test methods.
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Supplier Assessment Rubric

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Tim and Fred discuss supplier assessment criteria that are used to select suppliers or measure their performance.

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Bonus: Discussion with Arda Akman

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Adam and Fred sit down at RAMS with Arda to discuss his work and challenges as a reliability engineer.

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How to Tell if Your Supplier Has the Right Expertise

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Tim and Fred discuss how to “interview” a supplier to determine what they really know about quality and reliability, and how they’re likely to behave if you have a problem.
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The What, Who, How, When, and Why of Reliability Tasks

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Carl and Fred discuss reliability tasks and how we should approach reliability planning. Details including the rationale need to be clear.
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Supplier Not Meeting Your Reliability Requirements

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Carl and Fred discuss including reliability specifications in supplier requirements, too.

We discuss the impact of the focus on cost and delivery and adding reliability to the discussion and contracts.
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Setting Reliability Objectives Like Any Specification

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Carl and Fred discuss setting reliability requirements.

Instead of a soft goal or “generally good” thing to achieve, make them specific and clear. Make them a requirement to for the development teams to achieve.
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The Environment is Part of the Definition of Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the connection of environmental testing to the reliability performance of a product.

The relationship between performance elements of a product and how they perform in the range of environmental conditions expected.
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