How Much Do You Need to Know About Reliability?
Abstract
Philip and Fred discussing the journey of learning reliability engineering.
Key Points
Join Philip and Fred as they discuss the need to know enough to solve problems and to know when you do not know enough.
Topics include:
- The need to learn a little bit every day
- How to continue to learn after you read the one book
- Know enough to know if the solution is appropriate or correct
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Show Notes
Don MacArthur says
Thanks for another great discussion!
Gary Riggs says
Excellent discussion. As the World’s Greatest Reliability Engineer, Jedi Master Yoda, sez: “Failure is the best teacher!” In other words, keep failing until you can say with some certainty how much error is in your method. The most important lesson I learned was from my first reliability boss – ask a question and write down all my assumptions, and my total error budget. (Hint: There are considerably more assumptions to list when you take the time to write them down). Then question each assumption’s validity and assign error to the assumption. And if I don’t know HOW, then learn enough of that reliability methodology so as to render an error estimate. Am I still within my budget?