Modern Phone Qualification
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Dianna and Fred discussing the information needed to determine how to qualify product reliability. ᐅ Play Episode
SOR 736 Modern Phone Qualification
Speaking of Reliability
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SOR 735 Value of Certification
Value of Certification
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the value of certification in reliability engineering. Does it help one’s career advancement? Will it enhance one’s salary? What are the pros and cons? Does certification improve one’s prospects internationally?
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SOR 734 Can Organizations Change
Can Organizations Change
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Greg and Fred discuss the increasing requirement for organizations to change.
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SOR 733 Change Management with Humans
Change Management with Humans
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Greg and Fred discuss the range of elements involved with change management.
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SOR 732 Reliability Goals and Allocation
Reliability Goals and Allocation
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability goals … and how we ‘allocate’ them to components and subsystems. This is really important, as subsystems and components are often built and designed by different designers or organizations. So how do we translate system-level goals to MEANINGFUL lower-level goals?
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SOR 731 Easy to Ask Hard to Answer
Easy to Ask Hard to Answer
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Chris and Fred discuss questions that are easy to ask … but hard to answer. And these questions are often hard to answer because the person asking the question hasn’t thought about the REAL question they are trying to answer. So how many samples do I need for everything to be OK???
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SOR 730 The Future of Reliability
The Future of Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing the future of the field of reliability engineering, including where we have been and where we are going.
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SOR 729 Unusual Reliability Applications
Unusual Reliability Applications
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Carl and Fred discussing unusual and interesting reliability projects that cross disciplines.
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SOR 728 When a Proposal Fails
When a Proposal Fails
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting a proposal for new testing (i.e HALT) accepted.
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SOR 727 When to Stop Troubleshooting
When to Stop Troubleshooting
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of when to end efforts in troubleshooting a failure.
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SOR 726 Statistics, Mechanisms, Facilitation
Statistics, Mechanisms, Facilitation
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Chris and Fred discuss how statistics, mechanisms, and other technical words that come from ‘reliability engineering’ in contrast to softer terms like ‘facilitation.’ This comes from discussions Chris has had during his Statistical Process Control (SPC) course that he has run previously. So what is the big deal about these words? Well … you can know everything there is to know about statistics and failure mechanisms – but if you can’t make things better then it is all for nothing!
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SOR 725 Common Slope Assumption
Common Slope Assumption
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Chris and Fred discuss a ‘common slope assumption’ … which is something that only those of you with reliability engineering experience will have heard about. This is all about what we called ‘accelerated life testing’ where we increase stresses to accelerate failure. And software that is used to model accelerated life testing. Keen to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 724 Key Characteristics Revisited
Key Characteristics Revisited
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Carl and Fred having a new conversation about the age-old topic of key characteristics, and how they are used to improve products and processes.
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SOR 723 Question Everything
Question Everything
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Carl and Fred discussing the value of questioning in the process of learning and personal growth. Students and instructors should question each other as part of learning, engineering teams should question each other as part of achieving consensus.
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SOR 722 Obsolescence and Reliability
Obsolescence and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the article Kirk wrote titled “Why the Drain in the Bathtub Curve Matters” (see link in notes) about how technological obsolescence, and not product failures are the cause that cause many products to be retired or replaced.
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