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Chris and Fred discuss when you should run qualification tests again. A qualification test can be anything – essentially all your product, system or service has to do is meet or exceed something to get a tick in the box. So if you make a minor change to your system – do you need to run all your qualification tests again? Can you get away with not doing any? Listen to this podcast to learn more!
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.
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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?
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Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.
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Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.
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Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.
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Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers. Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.
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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.
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Carl and Fred discussing what it takes to be an expert reliability engineer, from a technical point of view.
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Kirk and Fred discussing doing failure analysis and the challenges
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Kirk and Fred discussing the new challenges in reliability engineering, which maybe the old challenges of moving away from the misleading approach of Failure Prediction Methodology (FPM) and for Fred its the continued use of MTBF as a metric for reliability.
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Chris and Fred discuss the typical decisions that are informed by reliability. It might be easier to list what decisions are not informed by reliability engineering. We came up with a list of 13 … and that is only because we ran out of time. What decisions you think are influenced by reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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Chris and Fred discuss different strategies for reliability. We start with a couple of strategies that don’t work (big shout out to virtually every military customer … ever!) and then come up with some approaches that have been shown to work – at least in some circumstances. And that is the key – different scenarios demand different strategies. Sound interesting? Then this is the podcast for you.
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