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Carl and Fred discussing the broad subject of people skills in the application of reliability engineering. The ability to influence other people in a positive and constructive manner, is an essential skill.
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Carl and Fred discussing one of the more important aspects of developing a good reliability plan: how to select the right reliability tools.
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James and Fred discussing getting maintenance input into the design process.
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James and Fred discussing the range of motivation for professional education.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the question of which common pet has more reliable behavior and how this relates to quality versus reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to prevent a field problem from becoming a widely disseminated through the media
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Adam and Fred discussing the difficulties of selecting the correct sample size for reliability demonstration testing.
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Adam and Fred discussing why the “why?” of testing is so important.
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Chris and Fred discuss data analysis … specifically the first question we ask before we help someone with their data analysis project. Chris always asks – what is the decision that this data analysis will support? And Fred always asks – where did this data come from? The reason these questions are important is that you need to know what information you need before you construct an analysis to get that information. And you need to be confident in the results. A single data set can potentially create multiple information sets. And this depends on how you construct the analysis. Which based on the decision. Listen to this podcast if you would like to learn more.
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability leadership. What is reliability leadership? Writing a book? Putting together a few slides? The first thing to know is that there is a difference between a reliability manager and a reliability leader. A reliability manager will tend to oversee practices and processes that others have identified or put together. Reliability leaders come up with the rationale, the motivation, the linking with business outcomes and everything else that creates or sustains organizational change. You can have the ‘best’ reliability engineers – but without reliability leadership, you won’t make reliable products. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast.
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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to design for the anticipated extreme corner case of environmental stresses that some percentage of the product may see in use.
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Kirk and Fred discussing testing and monitoring the development of reliability and sustaining reliability and when to stop product improvement using HALT methods.
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James and Fred discussing the use of data analysis with asset management.
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Adam and Fred discussing how an organizations self awareness can have a big impact on how they operate
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Adam and Fred discussing when a program should use analysis for reliability measurement and improvement vs testing.
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