Value of Failures

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Kirk and Fred discuss how many companies discard or never get back failed parts or subsystems even though they are high-value gold in the quest to make a more reliable product.
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Reliability Tradeoffs

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Kirk and Fred discuss the tradeoffs involved in developing a reliable product.
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Service Life Requirements

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Enrico and Fred discuss one of the most critical questions in reliability engineering.
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Getting it Right

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Philip and Fred discuss the value of precision maintenance.
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Competing Risk or Not

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Philip and Fred discuss the considerations when the dataset does not have competing risks.
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FMEA and AI

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Carl and Fred discuss Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. There are emerging integration opportunities and challenges, which will be discussed in this podcast.
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NUDD

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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting question from an Accendo listener. The question has to do with what is called NUDD: New, Unique, Difficult, Different.
Specifically the listener’s management wanted to know if their NUDD process could replace FMEA.
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Defined Environment

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Kirk and Fred discuss that customers may use their products, such as washing machines, in more stressful environments than the design specifies or recommends.

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Lasting Just Long Enough

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Kirk and Fred discuss the subject of reliability and how appliance manufacturing companies may design for a limited life in order to sell new models.
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Make it Less Robust

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Dianna and Fred discuss requests to engineers to make it less robust.
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Conference Value

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Dianna and Fred discuss conference value: maximizing the benefits of conferences and assessing their value for participation.
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Starting a Consultancy

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Dianna and Fred discuss starting a consultancy.
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Thermal HALT

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Kirk and Fred discuss a paper Kirk wrote about how thermal HALT can be a tool for finding marginal signal integrity issues.

Key Points

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss Kirk’s paper on the use of thermal HALT, initially posted on Kirk’s website, acceleratedreliabilitysolutions.com, in 2018, and a re-edited version that Fred recently posted on Accendo Reliability’s website. You can find a link to the article in the show notes below.

Topics include:

• Kirk found little when he researched for information and data about how the physical electronics, especially the PWBA (printed wiring board assemblies) in high-speed digital systems, the variations in the board layers, and the surface roughness of the wiring traces affect the quality of the signal integrity (SI).  
• As data bus speeds increase, effects causing errors in data transmission that were not significant at the time (when bus frequencies were in the megahertz range) became dominant at the gigahertz frequencies of today’s digital systems. Interconnect resistance, capacitance, and inductance are frequency-dependent, and as bus speeds increase and geometries continue to shrink, these variables may prove difficult– if not impossible– to model accurately.  
• Thermal HALT and varying voltage and  clock margins may simulate the lot-to-lot parametric variations in semiconductors and PWBA’s, resulting in SI errors, but since few companies disclose their most useful methodologies, published data remains scarce

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