Connecting Reliability to the Organization
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Adam and Fred discussing Adam’s new book “Reliability Culture.
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SOR 429 Connecting Reliability to the Organization
Speaking of Reliability
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SOR 428 A Hard Drive Issue Ate My Homework
A Hard Drive Issue Ate My Homework
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Adam and Fred discussing how to pursue reliability in home/office computing.
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SOR 427 Splitting a Product for HALT Focus
Splitting a Product for HALT Focus
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Kirk and Fred discussing underwater drones and how we divide up a product to most efficiently apply HALT to subsystems before applying stress to the whole product
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SOR 426 Water Resistant Smartphone Article
Water Resistant Smartphone Article
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Kirk and Fred discussing discussing the recent article that Kirk posted on LinkedIn about smartphone’s water resistance
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SOR 425 Leaders That Don’t Understand
Leaders That Don’t Understand
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘Leaders that Don’t Understand.’ And by ‘Don’t Understand’ … we mean they don’t understand what their organization sells or does. Sometimes this can work (within reason). Leaders who are not experts in their product or services can still be effective if they know that they need to listen to those around them. But this can go too far – if all decisions need to be collectively agreed by a large cadre of people before the leader in question agrees to make a decision. This isn’t leadership at all. The concept of having ‘everyone on board’ can decimate decision making speed, innovation and a focus on customers. Have you had a similar experience?
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SOR 424 Motors That Almost Last Forever
Motors That Almost Last Forever
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Kirk and Fred discussing old gasoline motors used in lawn equipment and how they can last what seems forever.
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SOR 423 Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent failures of the new folding Samsung Galaxy phone and what might have been missed in their testing video.
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SOR 422 What Do I Do When the MTBF is Imposed on Me?
What Do I Do When MTBF is Imposed?
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Chris and Fred discuss what happens when you can’t avoid having the MTBF imposed upon you – even if it is your own organization and not the customer. Perhaps you are told that ‘our competitors quote the MTBF … so we have to as well!’ But you can (sneakily) tailor test data to get whatever MTBF you want. You can make life easy on yourself by not challenging this paradigm (noting that you will most likely get an unhappy customer). But it is almost impossible to apportion MTBF goals to individual designers that even allow the motivated ones to create a reliable system. So what do you do? Listen to this podcast to help you on your reliability journey.
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SOR 421 Specification Requires Testing… Really?
Specification Requires Testing… Really?
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Chris and Fred discuss scenarios where it is (for whatever reason) impossible to demonstrate reliability through testing. Some organizations think that if you can’t demonstrate through testing … then it can’t be a requirement that appears in a specification. So … does this mean that the customer can’t get something that is reliable if we can’t test for it? … can customers even ask for it? Of course they can. The customer knows what they want. Everyone needs to understand that you can verify performance through activities that don’t involve testing (… like analysis). This is how it works for nuclear power plants … so what makes your organization special? Listen to this podcast if this intrigues you.
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SOR 420 Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 2
Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 2
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Carl and Fred continuing to discuss the subject of integrating reliability within a very fast product development timeline.
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SOR 419 Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 1
Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 1
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Carl and Fred discussing how the approach to achieving high reliability needs to change when operating in a fast-to-market product development process.
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SOR 418 Sense of Community for Reliability Engineers
Sense of Community for Reliability Engineers
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Adam and Fred discussing the challenges and strategies for improving the reliability engineering community.
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SOR 417 Mythical RAM Analysis Formula
Mythical RAM Analysis Formula
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Adam and Fred discussing The “Silver Bullet” approach to Reliability Engineering
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SOR 416 How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
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Kirk and Fred discussing Reliability Specifications and how companies set reliability requirements in new products
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SOR 415 Making Reliability Training Effective
Making Reliability Training Effective
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Kirk and Fred discussing reliability training and the best way to have new reliability development techniques.
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