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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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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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Kirk and Fred discussing a very important question in all of unreliability.
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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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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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James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.
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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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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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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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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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Carl and Fred discussing the challenges associated with implementing reliability programs.
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James and Fred discussing the impact of the labor shortage on maintenance programs.
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James and Fred discussing learning from failures, yet shouldn’t we prevent failures?
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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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