Building Reliability Culture
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James and Fred discussing a few of the elements that help to fit together to build an excellent culture.
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SOR 551 Building Reliability Culture
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.
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SOR 550 The Intent Anchor Idea
The Intent Anchor Idea
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Adam and Fred discussing the Intent and Delivery Anchor method
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SOR 549 The Bounding Method
The Bounding Method
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Adam and Fred discussing a new way to ensure all the product goals guide the program all the time
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SOR 548 Leaders, Champions, and Managers
Leaders, Champions, and Managers
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Chris and Fred discuss what a leader, champion and manager are. Many textbooks, guidebooks and so-called ‘domain experts’ tell us what (for example) a ‘reliability leader’ is. In some cases the ‘reliability leader’ is someone who has little influence, and is more of an ad hoc ‘doer.’ Not a leader. Why is this? Listen to this podcast to hear more about this?
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SOR 547 When and Why Around Assumptions
When and Why Around Assumptions
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Chris and Fred discuss assumptions – and when you need to check if they are valid. And if you do need to … how do you check these assumptions? Reliability (and all sorts of other engineers) need to study variation and variance. We are often interested in when the first ‘5 percent’ of things will fail. So assumptions on the underlying failure (or random) process are crucial. Sound familiar? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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SOR 546 Working Remotely Well
Working Remotely Well
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Carl and Fred discussing ideas about how to maximize effectiveness while working remotely.
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SOR 545 What to do with 3 Samples
What to do with 3 Samples
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Carl and Fred discussing what you can do if you only have 3 samples for testing.
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SOR 544 Potential Long Term Changes to Live Professional Development
Potential Long Term Changes to Live Professional Development
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Kirk and Fred discussing the changes in professional conferences and seminars due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic
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SOR 543 Evaluating a Discreet Component for Reliability
Evaluating a Discreet Component for Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing a question on testing of a single transistor for reliability assurance.
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SOR 542 Setting Up to Report Monthly Failure Rates
Setting Up to Report Monthly Failure Rates
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Chris and Fred discuss how we need to estimate monthly failure rates of a product. Like when bosses or directors want to know what the ‘failure’ or ‘return’ rate of a product is this month. But is this useful? How do we account for the number of products we have shipped? How old are the products when they fail? And how do we learn from these numbers? Can we even find a number? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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SOR 541 History of Reliability Part 3
History of Reliability Part 3
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Chris and Fred continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it) and kept going with Chris and Carl (and you can click here to listen to it). Between all of them, they came up with 8 reliability engineering epochs. Now it is Fred’s turn to work out what has been missed, and what all of this means what reliability engineering looks like in the future.
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SOR 540 History of Reliability Part 2
History of Reliability Part 2
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Chris and Carl continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion that started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it). In the short time they had to talk about it, they came up with 6 reliability engineering epochs. Now Carl is going to see if there is anything to add – and importantly – anything to learn.
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SOR 539 History of Reliability Part 1
History of Reliability Part 1
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Chris and Adam discuss the history of reliability engineering. Everyone (customer, manufacturer, builder) has different ideas of what reliability is. And this has changed throughout history. Perhaps we can learn something from what reliability engineering has also changed throughout history. As they say – those who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it. This is the first of three podcasts that look at the history of reliability for this purpose: seeing what we can learn to help reliability engineering now and tomorrow.
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SOR 538 How did you find the Reliability Engineering Career Path?
How did you find the Reliability Engineering Career Path?
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Adam and Jordon Suls discussing how reliability engineers find the reliability engineering profession
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SOR 537 Software Reliability Modeling
Software Reliability Modeling
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Adam and Kishor Trivedi discussing new ways to model software reliability.
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