A Great Customer Experience
Abstract
Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s experience with a new pinball machine’s component failures and the manufacturer.
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SOR 709 A Great Customer Experience
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SOR 708 How Well to Know Failure Mechanisms
How Well to Know Failure Mechanisms
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Carl and Fred discussing the underlying mechanisms of failure, and how they impact our analysis and understanding of reliability.
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SOR 707 Is There a Better Way than RPN?
Is There a Better Way than RPN?
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Carl and Fred take on the subject of Risk Priority Number, also called RPN, when used in FMEA. Is RPN a good way to prioritize risk in an FMEA, or is there a better way?
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SOR 706 What Reliability is Good Enough
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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SOR 705 What is the Failure Mechanism
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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SOR 704 What is this Risk Thing?
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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SOR 703 Hospital Power Supply Modeling
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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SOR 702 Podcasting and Reliability
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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SOR 701 Time to Market and Reliability
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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SOR 700 Purpose of Accendo Reliability
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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SOR 699 Only have MTBFs
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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SOR 698 Purpose of a Body of Knowledge
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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SOR 697 Reliability and Poor Project Management
Implementing Reliability Programs
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Carl and Fred discussing the challenges associated with implementing reliability programs.
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SOR 696 Interpreting Test Results
SOR 695 Training and the Trades
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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