Understanding Use Profiles
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Kirk and Fred discussing the planning of the user profiles and use conditions that engineers must make during the design process
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SOR 580 Understanding Use Profiles
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SOR 579 Introduction to Facilitation Skills
Introduction to Facilitation Skills
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Carl and Fred discussing the broad set of skills that are needed to be an effective team leader.
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SOR 578 Dealing with Interfaces
Dealing with Interfaces
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Carl and Fred discussing interfaces and how they can be addressed in reliability programs.
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SOR 577 Value of Being Proactive
Value of Being Proactive
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James and Fred discussing the benefits and some constraints of shifting your maintenance program to a proactive stance.
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SOR 576 Influence Change Behavior
Influence Change Behavior
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Chris and Fred discuss how you can influence behavior. Good behavior. Like taking reliability seriously. It is not about what you say when you are forced to say it. It is about what you like saying and what you make your people do. So there are some things you can do to influence people in a good way. But it takes some effort on your behalf. Keen to learn more? Listen here!
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SOR 575 Cultural Avoidance of Engineering
Cultural Avoidance of Engineering
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Chris and Fred discuss the organizations that culturally avoid engineering. Those organizations that for some reason, never ask for the data, the math, the tests, the thinking or anything else that might actually help you understand why your thing fails.
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SOR 574 When to Run Qualifications Again
When to Run Qualifications Again
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Chris and Fred discuss when you should run qualification tests again. A qualification test can be anything – essentially all your product, system or service has to do is meet or exceed something to get a tick in the box. So if you make a minor change to your system – do you need to run all your qualification tests again? Can you get away with not doing any? Listen to this podcast to learn more!
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SOR 573 What do We Have Confidence In?
What do We Have Confidence In?
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.
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SOR 572 Minimum Viable Reliability
Minimum Viable Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?
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SOR 571 Safety and Reliability
Safety and Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.
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SOR 570 Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis
Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis
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Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.
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SOR 569 Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives
Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives
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Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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SOR 568 Lessons Learned Working From Home
Lessons Learned Working From Home
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Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.
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SOR 567 Are You a Keyboard Jockey?
Are You a Keyboard Jockey?
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Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers. Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.
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SOR 566 An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering
An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering
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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.
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