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Carl and Fred discuss the various types of interfaces in electrical and mechanical systems and how they should be included in reliability analyses.
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Adam and Fred discussing how industry standards can help and hurt new product development
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Adam and Fred discussing an exotic experience Adam had in a 65 year old plane.
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Kevin Clark and Fred discussing a new set of devices and services to provide real-time vibration and temperature data for your factory’s assets.
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Chris and Fred discussing the little known Tupolev Tu-144 or the Russian Concorde. It was developed as a direct competitor to the Anglo-French Concorde, and was also the first commercial aircraft to fly at a speed of Mach 2. It even looks like the Concorde. But there is a reason you have not heard of it. Yup … reliability. And there is much to learn. In fact, Chris decided to write an article about it which can be read here.
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Chris and Fred discussing reliability modeling which often starts with device reliability estimates – particularly when we start talking about groups of systems working together.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relation of costs versus how much reliability is needed for the design and production of electronics systems
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of quantifying the amount of life there is in solid state electronics with no moving parts.
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Adam and Fred discussing how to identify opposing forces on the team and finding common ground to move on together
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Adam and Fred discussing the challenges of acquiring reliability data and it’s value to a program
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Chris and Fred discuss how management teams across many institutions continue to misuse the MTBF while believing they are fluent in the field of reliability (when they clearly aren’t)!
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the long, ever-impending death of the outdated reliability prediction handbook and its progeny.
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Carl and Fred discussing the importance of understanding and applying failure mechanisms in achieving high reliability.
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Carl and Fred discussing to talk with management about the subject of reliability.
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