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 831 Setting up an ORT
Speaking of Reliability
Let us address your reliability engineering questions. Gain the experience of your peers and accelerate the improvement of your program and career. Listen, comment, send questions, join the discussion.SOR 830 Dealing With Product Characteristics
Dealing With Product Characteristics
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Dianna and Fred discussing engineering projects and dealing with product characteristics and requirements.
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SOR 829 New Ways to Break Things
New Ways to Break Things
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Dianna and Fred discussing new innovations from a reliability point-of-view: how is this new stuff going to break? What are going to be the new ways to break things?
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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 826 Reliability and Statistics
Reliability and Statistics
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of statistics in reliability engineering, where they are useful and where their use may not be the most efficient way to find and fix the cause of failure.
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SOR 825 Learning about Failures
Learning about Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the idea of listing of failure mechanisms and their different viewpoints on how we learn some of the common failure mechanisms
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SOR 824 Single Use Product Reliability
Single Use Product Reliability
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Dianna and Fred discussing single use product reliability. For products that are used once and then disposed or recycled, do we need to consider and plan for their reliability? The short answer: yes! They talk about the things to consider with single use products.
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SOR 823 Stresses and Mechanism
Stresses and Mechanism
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Dianna and Fred discussing a listener question about understanding stresses and mechanism of failures of a new design.
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SOR 822 Identify Weak Points
Identify Weak Points
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Kirk and Fred discussing how a good reliability development process is to identify the weaknesses to improve a product including a recent fence repair at Kirk’s house.
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SOR 821 Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias
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Kirk and Fred discussing the paths they took in Reliability Engineering, how our past experience shaped our view of the best methods for improving the reliability of systems, and how we learn new information on reliability issues.
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SOR 820 Failure to Adjust
Failure to Adjust
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Greg and Fred discussing why people have a hard time adjusting and pivoting in times of uncertainty, much like what we all experience today.
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SOR 819 Supply Chain Tradeoffs
Supply Chain Tradeoffs
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Greg and Fred discussing the tradeoffs in reshoring. Many companies are considering bringing design and manufacturing back to the US or host country.
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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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