Motors That Almost Last Forever
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Kirk and Fred discussing old gasoline motors used in lawn equipment and how they can last what seems forever.
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SOR 424 Motors That Almost Last Forever
Speaking of Reliability
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SOR 423 Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent failures of the new folding Samsung Galaxy phone and what might have been missed in their testing video.
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SOR 422 What Do I Do When the MTBF is Imposed on Me?
What Do I Do When MTBF is Imposed?
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Chris and Fred discuss what happens when you can’t avoid having the MTBF imposed upon you – even if it is your own organization and not the customer. Perhaps you are told that ‘our competitors quote the MTBF … so we have to as well!’ But you can (sneakily) tailor test data to get whatever MTBF you want. You can make life easy on yourself by not challenging this paradigm (noting that you will most likely get an unhappy customer). But it is almost impossible to apportion MTBF goals to individual designers that even allow the motivated ones to create a reliable system. So what do you do? Listen to this podcast to help you on your reliability journey.
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SOR 421 Specification Requires Testing… Really?
Specification Requires Testing… Really?
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Chris and Fred discuss scenarios where it is (for whatever reason) impossible to demonstrate reliability through testing. Some organizations think that if you can’t demonstrate through testing … then it can’t be a requirement that appears in a specification. So … does this mean that the customer can’t get something that is reliable if we can’t test for it? … can customers even ask for it? Of course they can. The customer knows what they want. Everyone needs to understand that you can verify performance through activities that don’t involve testing (… like analysis). This is how it works for nuclear power plants … so what makes your organization special? Listen to this podcast if this intrigues you.
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SOR 420 Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 2
Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 2
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Carl and Fred continuing to discuss the subject of integrating reliability within a very fast product development timeline.
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SOR 419 Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 1
Reliability in a Fast Environment Part 1
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Carl and Fred discussing how the approach to achieving high reliability needs to change when operating in a fast-to-market product development process.
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SOR 418 Sense of Community for Reliability Engineers
Sense of Community for Reliability Engineers
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Adam and Fred discussing the challenges and strategies for improving the reliability engineering community.
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SOR 417 Mythical RAM Analysis Formula
Mythical RAM Analysis Formula
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Adam and Fred discussing The “Silver Bullet” approach to Reliability Engineering
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SOR 416 How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
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Kirk and Fred discussing Reliability Specifications and how companies set reliability requirements in new products
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SOR 415 Making Reliability Training Effective
Making Reliability Training Effective
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Kirk and Fred discussing reliability training and the best way to have new reliability development techniques.
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SOR 414 How Not to do FDSC
How Not to do FDSC
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Chris and Adam discuss FDSC. This may only mean something to you if you have experience in ‘military’ equipment. It stands for Failure Definition and Scoring Criteria. And it is used to remove subjectivity in classifying what sort of failure it is. Unless the military customer decides to change these during development. And this causes issues for all. If you want to hear more about what happens when you ‘shift the goal posts’ during development, then listen to this podcast!
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SOR 413 Characteristics of an Organization That Limits Reliability
Characteristics of an Organization That Limits Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘tell’s an organization that sucks at reliability has. That is, can you just tell an organization makes terrible products before you even get to their reliability department/guidebook/strategy/laboratory? And if you can, what are they? Our experience shows that when we are brought in to solve a ‘reliability’ problem, we need to address a vision/leadership/resourcing/(insert poor business practice here) issue. If this interests you … please listen to this podcast!
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SOR 412 Are Regulators Good For Reliability
Are Regulators Good For Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss the role regulators play in many industries. Are we better off because of them? In many cases … yes. But perhaps regulators are also getting in the way of us doing things better. And at what point does their ‘net harm’ exceed their ‘net good’? Can regulators do a better job, and perhaps create an alternative to archaic checklists and compliance audits? We think yes. If this topic interests you, listen to this podcast!
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SOR 411 Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s purchase of a new laptop and his expectations of reliability.
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SOR 410 How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
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Kirk and Fred discussing recent aircraft failures and how suppliers sort through all the reported data on failures and complaints from the field.
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