Stuck in Your Job
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Chris and Fred discuss what you can do to feel good about your job … including when you know it is time to move on.
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SOR 846 Stuck in Your Job
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SOR 845 RAMS Warts and All
RAMS Warts and All
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Chris and Fred discuss how it felt like the 2023 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) went? Was it a success? Is it going downhill?
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SOR 840 Regulators and Risk
Regulators and Risk
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Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem or regulation. If the regulators are not the adults in the room, then we have a problem.
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SOR 839 First Steps with Data
First Steps with Data
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Chris and Fred discuss what is the first thing with you do when someone gives you lots of information. What do you do?
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SOR 832 What is Your Approach
What is Your Approach
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Chris and Fred discuss your approach for estimating the reliability of a new product, with new technology, manufactured in a new facility? … wow!
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SOR 831 Setting up an ORT
Setting up an ORT
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to establish an Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT) … or is it an accelerated test? … or the MTTF?
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SOR 828 New School Leadership
New School Leadership
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Chris and Fred discuss the changing ideas of leadership … and how people lament newer generations and their approaches to (and expectations of) leadership. There are challenges … so what does this mean?
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SOR 827 60th Percentile with Vendor Data
60th Percentile with Vendor Data
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What does this title mean? Chris and Fred discuss how some vendors make ‘startling’ claims regarding reliability from some small amounts of test data. So where does this 60th percentile some of us hear from time to time come from?
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SOR 818 Improving or Suing
Improving or Suing
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Chris and Fred discuss whether you want to lay blame (i.e. sue) or improve reliability? Don’t be confused … accountability is important. But that doesn’t replace everyone ‘owning’ the end result.
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SOR 817 Warranty to Failure Rate
Warranty to Failure Rate
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Chris and Fred discuss what (if anything) we can learn from advertised warranty or reliability specifications from vendors.
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SOR 808 What is a Reliability Score?
What is a Reliability Score?
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Chris and Fred discuss how we communicate reliability to our customers. And they haven’t completed university courses in reliability engineering …
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SOR 807 Confidence and Tolerance Intervals
Confidence and Tolerance Intervals
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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘confidence,’ ‘tolerance’ and ‘prediction’ intervals. Is there any point in understanding the difference between these concepts? … or is it something only statisticians find useful?
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SOR 802 How to Talk About MTBF
How to Talk About MTBF
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Chris and Fred discuss the pointlessness of the MTBF. This comes from a listener who reached out to complain about how lots of industries enforce the MTBF … but why?
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SOR 801 Deferred Maintenance in the News
Deferred Maintenance in the News
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Chris and Fred discuss about what happens when we ‘defer’ maintenance … or do it later … or perhaps never. When is it OK to do this?
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SOR 800 What Could Go Wrong
What Could Go Wrong
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘what can go wrong’ in scenarios where it is almost impossible to even comprehend might happen … like when something is really old! ᐅ Play Episode
