What Reliability is Good Enough

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Kirk and Fred discussing the expectations of reliability of their own vehicles  and some of the wear out mechanisms we expect.
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What is the Failure Mechanism?

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Kirk and Fred discussing a very important question in all of unreliability.
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What is this Risk Thing?

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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘risk’ is. Or what most people think ‘risk’ is. Or what the experts think ‘risk’ is. Or what ‘risk’ feels like. Do you know what ‘risk’ is?
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Hospital Power Supply Modeling

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Chris and Fred discuss a real-world problem … how do we use reliability engineering tools to work out how select a hospital power supply system.
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Podcasting and Reliability

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James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.
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Time to Market and Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing companies making reliability a priority early in the product development as opposed to waiting to after market release to see if it’s reliability.
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Purpose of Accendo Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discussing the many years of discussions  on Speaking of Reliability since Fred and Kirk recorded Episode 1 in 2015, six years ago.
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Only have MTBFs

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Chris and Fred discuss … MTBFs! Fred’s favorite! We (should) know that Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is not reliability. So what do we do if we somehow need to get reliability from nothing but the MTBF.
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Purpose of a Body of Knowledge

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Chris and Fred discuss what the purpose of a ‘Body of Knowledge’ or BOK is? … or what is a BOK? … especially when it comes to reliability?
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Implementing Reliability Programs

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Carl and Fred discussing the challenges associated with implementing reliability programs.
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Interpreting Test Results

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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about reliability demonstration testing; specifically how to deal with unrelated failures when using “success testing.”

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Training and the Trades

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James and Fred discussing the impact of the labor shortage on maintenance programs.
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How and What to Learn

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James and Fred discussing learning from failures, yet shouldn’t we prevent failures?
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Thoughts on ALARP

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Chris and Fred discussing another question from a listener based on ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ or ALARP. This is used a lot in risk management and analysis … but what is it?
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Reliability and Pumping Water

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Chris and Fred discussing service reliability based on a listener question where we don’t just look at reliability as it applies to an item, product or device. Instead … we look at ‘reliability of a service’ … or system, … or process. How can this help a farmer who is trying to work out how to best supply water to his cattle?
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