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Kirk and Fred discussing the relationship between quality and reliability. Quality can lead to a functional failure but sometimes is cosmetic or feel of a product.
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Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, focusing on the third principle.
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Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, with focus on the second principle.
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Carl and Fred discussing the question: Is it more important to calculate reliability or to achieve reliability?
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Chris and Fred discussing how different organizations deal with failures. Failures are a ‘bad’ thing in that a system doesn’t do what you hoped it would. But what about failures that occur during the design or production process? This is different. If you have scope to improve your system, then failures that you can analyze in a laboratory or test bed are invaluable. They, more than any other event, will help you understand the vulnerabilities of your system. And you must actively seek vulnerability to improve reliability. But if you are looking for failures, you must first admit that your system is vulnerable. And that is difficult for many people to do.
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Chris and Fred discussing the recent Russian Soyuz rocket failure. With the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet, the Soyuz rocket and spacecraft are now the only viable way to launch humans into space. The 1960s Soyuz rocket propels the 1960s Soyuz spacecraft into orbit … and to be clear it is only the rocket that failed. The Soyuz spacecraft successfully aborted the launch keep the crew safe. The Soyuz rocket has long been the yardstick of rocket safety – it easily has the most impressive reliability track record. But should this recent failure change that perception? And how can the Soyuz system still be operating when other programs have come and gone, primarily due to safety and reliability? This podcast attempts to answer some of these questions.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of keeping the failure data and details of past failures of products in order to make more reliable products.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the problem of getting failure data from predecessor products for many companies. Without detailed useful and verified failure data, it is difficult to improve reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing design requirements and how they influence reliability decisions.
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Carl and Fred discuss the various types of interfaces in electrical and mechanical systems and how they should be included in reliability analyses.
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Adam and Fred discussing how industry standards can help and hurt new product development
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Adam and Fred discussing an exotic experience Adam had in a 65 year old plane.
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Kevin Clark and Fred discussing a new set of devices and services to provide real-time vibration and temperature data for your factory’s assets.
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Chris and Fred discussing the little known Tupolev Tu-144 or the Russian Concorde. It was developed as a direct competitor to the Anglo-French Concorde, and was also the first commercial aircraft to fly at a speed of Mach 2. It even looks like the Concorde. But there is a reason you have not heard of it. Yup … reliability. And there is much to learn. In fact, Chris decided to write an article about it which can be read here.
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Chris and Fred discussing reliability modeling which often starts with device reliability estimates – particularly when we start talking about groups of systems working together.
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