661 Management vs Leadership
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Carl and Fred discussing what it means to be a leader, and how the principles of leadership go beyond the traditional roles of management.
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SOR 661 Management vs Leadership
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SOR 660 Effort versus Outcomes
Effort versus Outcomes
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to focus on ‘effort’ instead of ‘outcomes.’ We often think we focus on outcomes only … but how many people ‘get by’ simply by being ‘seen’ around the office, looking busy when there, and otherwise being friendly to everyone? They always volunteer to be part of a team, do some of the ‘less glamorous’ tasks, and otherwise be ‘part of something.’ But is this person actually valuable? (… harsh as the question sounds).
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SOR 659 3 Perspectives for Fault Tree Analysis
3 Perspectives for Fault Tree Analysis
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Chris and Fred discussing the 3 perspectives of Fault Tree Analysis or FTA. What … there are 3 perspectives? … what are perspectives when it comes to FTA?
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SOR 658 Equipment Life Expectations
Equipment Life Expectations
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James and Fred discussing the many variables that impact equipment expected lifetimes.
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SOR 657 Evolution and Reliability
Evolution and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the evolution of technology and reliability in consumer products.
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SOR 656 Reliability is Green
Reliability is Green
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent opinion article in the New York Times on technology waste.
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SOR 655 Hints to Have a Proactive Reliability Program
Hints to Have a Proactive Reliability Program
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘proactive’ reliability engineering … and trying to get out of being ‘reactive.’ Some entire organizations are structure around waiting for the catastrophe to happen before we fix it. So changing perspectives can be challenging.
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SOR 654 Reliability Starts at the Top
Reliability Starts at the Top
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability starts at the top of every organization. And by that, we mean … leadership. What does that mean? How can the CEO be more important for reliability performance than the reliability engineer with decades of experience and post-graduate qualifications?
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SOR 653 More Than One Root Cause
More Than One Root Cause
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of root cause. How many “root causes” can there be? Is there only one “root cause” for a problem? What about events or conditions that happen in tandem?
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SOR 652 Reliability and Risk Management
Reliability and Risk Management
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Carl and Fred discussing the relationship of reliability and risk management, including areas of overlap and linkages.
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SOR 651 Suspected or Known Problem
Suspected or Known Problem
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of finding a latent problem in a product after your company has been producing and selling for some time.
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SOR 650 Reliability Expectations
Reliability Expectations
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Kirk and Fred discussing how we continue to evolve our reliability expectations as technology becomes more robust and reliable.
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SOR 649 Extrapolation and Sample Sizes
Extrapolation and Sample Sizes
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Chris and Fred discuss (essentially) how many ‘things’ you need to see to know enough about those ‘things.’ We see this conundrum across all sorts of fields of study. How many kangaroos do I need to capture and weigh to get a good understanding of the entire population’s typical weight? Delete kangaroo and insert whatever thing matters to you.
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SOR 648 Accelerated Testing Assumptions
Accelerated Testing Assumptions
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Chris and Fred discuss accelerated testing. Accelerated testing is great for getting lots of information in a short period of time. You can compress a lot of ‘real-time’ life into a really small amount of testing. But how do you do it right? You need to understand the underlying physics of failure to work out how the compression of time works.
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SOR 647 Deterministic versus Probabilistic
Deterministic versus Probabilistic
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘deterministic’ versus ‘probabilistic’ … and what that means for reliability engineering. Know what these words mean and want to learn more? Don’t know what these words mean and want to understand how they could help reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast.
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