The 1,000th Episode
Abstract
Kirk and Fred and a long-time listener, Nik Sharpe, discuss the long history of doing this podcast from the first Speaking of Reliability podcast SOR #1, “Can you pass HALT?” recorded June 20th, 2015, to this 1000th episode.
Key Points
Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss with Nik how and why he found the Speaking of Reliability podcast around SOR podcast 540 in the year 2020 and what he has found beneficial from SOR.
Topics include:
- The original motivation for starting the Speaking of Reliability podcast and the Accendo Reliability Website and how Kirk realized Fred was a change agent trying to eliminate the use of the very misguided use of Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
- Nik talks about working remotely in the large country of Australia and the fact that he has realied on the podcast as a way of hearing the latest information on reliability since he says there are few reliability focused conferences or organizations.
Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.
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Show Notes
Please click on this link to access a relatively new analysis of traditional reliability prediction methods article from the US ARMY and CALCE titled “Reliability Prediction – Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”. It is in the public domain, so please distribute freely. Trying to predict reliability for development is a misleading a costly approach.
You can now purchase the most recent recording of Kirk Gray’s Hobbs Engineering 8 (two 4 hour sessions) hour Webinar “Rapid and Robust Reliability Development – 2022 HALT & HASS Methodologies Online Seminar” from this link.
For more information on the newest discovery testing methodology here is a link to the book “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust design of Electronics and Systems” written by Kirk Gray and John Paschkewitz.
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