Teaching Reliability Part 2
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Carl and Fred continuing to discuss how to teach reliability. This is part 2 of the podcast series “Teaching Reliability.”
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SOR 616 Teaching Reliability Part 2
Speaking of Reliability
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SOR 615 Teaching Reliability
Teaching Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing the principles of teaching reliability, whether it is sharing knowledge to a small number of people or formally instructing a larger group of engineers. ᐅ Play Episode
SOR 614 ‘Why’ Leadership
‘Why’ Leadership
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘why’ leadership. Not why leadership is important (we know it is). But the sort of leadership that focuses on the ‘why’ of an organization or group of people. ‘Why’ people who work at these organizations get out of bed in the morning. ‘Why’ customers purchase products or services from an organization. And if we get the ‘why’ right … everything becomes a lot easier. Especially reliability.
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SOR 613 Focus on Problem Number 5
Focus on Problem Number 5
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘Problem #5.’ What is problem #5? Well … technically it isn’t a problem at all. Which is what we want to be doing as reliability engineers. Preventing problems from occurring. Most people look at reliability engineers as (perhaps at best) addressing field failures or failures in the hands of the customers. But reliability engineering is much more valuable than that. Reliability engineering prevents you from not meeting budget or not achieving scheduled milestones. In fact … field failures (which are what we call ‘Problem #1’) are incidental to good reliability engineering. Want to learn more?
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SOR 612 Balancing Reliability Into Your Organization
Balancing Reliability Into Your Organization
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Philip and Fred discussing the difference between doing tasks and using the results to make decisions.
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SOR 611 Vendor MTBF Claim
Vendor MTBF Claim
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Philip and Fred discussing a listener question about how to verify vendor claims about reliability.
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SOR 610 Public Perception and Reliability
Public Perception and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the public’s perception of reliability after having a product with poor reliability or one with impressive robustness and how the online sharing of information can affect that in sales, or lack of.
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SOR 609 Demistifying Derating
Demistifying Derating
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Kirk and Fred discussing the reasons and practice of derating components for the purpose of improving the reliability of electronics products, as Kirk’s experience has shown most causes of unreliability are due to mistakes and overlooked errors in design, use, or manufacturing
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SOR 608 Attributes of Reliability Requirements
Attributes of Reliability Requirements
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Carl and Fred discussing the attributes of good reliability requirements, and how they can be used to improve the reliability requirements setting process.
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SOR 607 Reliability Decisions
Reliability Decisions
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Carl and Fred discussing some of their most memorable reliability decisions, and how the decisions came about.
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SOR 606 Decisions and Problem Statements
Decisions and Problem Statements
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James and Fred discussing the need to focus on upcoming decisions and problems to solve.
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SOR 605 Planning Ahead Guidance
Planning Ahead Guidance
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James and Fred discussing how to go about preparing and planning for the coming year.
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SOR 604 How We Prepare Future Reliability Engineers
How We Prepare Future Reliability Engineers
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Philip and Fred discussing the importance of mentoring and reliability guidance.
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SOR 603 Critical Few in Risk Management
Critical Few in Risk Management
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Philip and Fred discuss Risk management – internet challenges during COVID and how we analyse integrated systems that challenge traditional methods.
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SOR 602 Is a Test to Pass Useful?
Is a Test to Pass Useful?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the desire of everyone to “Pass the Tests”, which in reliability testing may not provide the best information on a products potential reliability.
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