Putting Reliability Plans Together
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Chris and Fred discuss how we create a ‘reliability plan.’ It is not simply a list of tools …
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SOR 793 Putting Reliability Plans Together
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SOR 792 Overcoming Resistance
Overcoming Resistance
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Chris and Fred discuss how we overcome cultural resistance to ‘good’ things – like better reliability engineering. Is it possible?
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SOR 787 Working with a Lab
Working with a Lab
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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about finding a lab to help you come up with some meaningful reliability information. Does that laboratory exist?
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SOR 786 Strength-Stress with Limited Information
Strength-Stress with Limited Information
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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called ‘stress-strength’ we hear a lot about in the world of reliability … especially when we need to use it to work out ‘reliability stuff.’
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SOR 781 Data and Mechanism
Data and Mechanisms
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability data analysis really doesn’t mean a lot … unless you pair it with a failure mechanism. Why is this? What does that mean?
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SOR 780 Influencing Change
Influencing Change
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means (as a reliability engineer) to try and change something … even though the organization that thinks they are open to change really isn’t. What can we do?
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SOR 770 Who Makes Something Reliable?
Who Makes Something Reliable?
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Chris and Fred discuss the seemingly never resolved question on ‘who’ is responsible for making something reliable? Is it the supplier? The designers? The manufacturers? Aliens?
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SOR 769 Confidence from Understanding
Confidence from Understanding
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Chris and Fred discuss what this term ‘confidence’ means … especially when it comes to statistics (and reliability)
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SOR 764 Regression Metrics
Regression Metrics
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘regression metrics’ … or numbers that software packages spit out at us to suggest if a statistical model is ‘good’ or not. But if this is the only thing you (as an engineer) rely on to understand your system … you are already in trouble!
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SOR 763 Technology Only Goes So Far
Technology Only Goes So Far
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Chris and Fred discuss the limits of ‘technology solutions’ … especially when it comes to reliability – mainly because there is always a human being involved!
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SOR 758 Incomplete Data
Incomplete Data
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have incomplete data. Isn’t data just data?
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SOR 757 No Such Thing as Safe
No Such Thing as Safe
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Chris and Fred discuss this term we call ‘safe.’ What is ‘safe?’ How can we use the term ‘safe’ in industries that involve a lot of risk? Perhaps there is no such thing as ‘safe?’
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SOR 749 Hierarchy of Engineering
Hierarchy of Engineering
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Chris and Fred discuss the ‘hierarchy’ of reliability engineering. Which is the hierarchy of the knowledge and terms we need to follow when we learn about reliability engineering. Is it possible to organize our thoughts in a better way?
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SOR 748 Accuracy and Intervals
Accuracy and Intervals
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Chris and Fred discuss the terms ‘accuracy’ and ‘intervals’ … which are used a lot by reliability engineers. And how they relate to ‘confidence.’ So what to do any of these terms mean?
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SOR 744 Reliability Growth
Reliability Growth
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘reliability growth’ means? Sounds simple … right? And it can be. But sometimes not.
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