Verifying New Vendor for Spares
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James and Fred discussing a question considering how to best qualify a new vendor for use in our plant.
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SOR 556 Verifying New Vendor for Spares
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SOR 555 Switching from Interval to Condition Based
Switching from Interval to Condition Based
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James and Fred discussing a recent question on the analysis necessary to switch to a condition-based strategy.
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SOR 554 Do Customers only Want the Flat Part of the Curve
Do Customers only Want the Flat Part of the Curve?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the classic bathtub curve used in reliability engineering to define the life cycle of electronics and systems.
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SOR 553 How Many Samples?
How Many Samples?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting samples and the conclusions that can be drawn from testing and analyzing a low number of samples
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SOR 552 Assumptions and Maintenance
Assumptions and Maintenance
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James and Fred discussing the notion of when we really need to check assumptions.
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SOR 551 Building Reliability Culture
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 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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