Checkbox Activities
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Kirk and Fred discussing those reliability procedures such as cookbook predictions that are “check the box” activities and do not add value and may be misleading
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SOR 601 Checkbox Activities
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SOR 600 How is Reliability Engineering Changing
How is Reliability Engineering Changing
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Fred discusses a couple of noticeable trends affecting our profession.
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SOR 599 Better Performance not Just Fewer Failures
Better Performance not Just Fewer Failures
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Chris and Fred discuss what performance actually means. When it comes to reliability engineering … is this simply having fewer failures? NO! There is plenty more to reliability engineering than simply taking a ‘thing’ and simply making it work for longer. How can reliability engineering make more appealing, more functional, and less expensive products? Listen to this podcast for more!
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SOR 598 Standards and Intent
Standards and Intent
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Chris and Fred discuss how we use standards for reliability engineering, safety, and other similar fields. Standards have a place in everything we do. But issues come when we stop thinking about the thing we are creating and rely on the standards to guide really important decisions. Why is this silly? Listen to the podcast!
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SOR 597 Reliability Tools: Supporting Good Decisions and Adding Value
Reliability Tools: Supporting Good Decisions and Adding Value
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Carl and Fred discussing the myriad of reliability methods and tools, and how they can be differentiated by how they support program decisions and add value.
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SOR 596 Approach to Platform Reliability
Approach to Platform Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing a reliability approach where the focus becomes core functions. This is compared to approaching reliability at the project level.
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SOR 595 Lesson Learned Doing Virtual Work
Lesson Learned Doing Virtual Work
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Carl and Fred discussing the timely subject of working from home in the virtual world. Whether you are running a meeting, participating in an FMEA, teaching, or collaborating online, what works and does not work?
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SOR 594 FMEA and Legal Considerations
FMEA and Legal Considerations
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Carl and Fred discussing common sense legal guidelines for doing FMEAs. The focus of FMEAs should be first and foremost on improving designs and manufacturing processes, and consistent with company legal policy.
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SOR 593 What should a Body of Knowledge Do?
What should a Body of Knowledge Do?
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Chris and Fred discuss what a ‘body of knowledge’ or ‘BOK’ should do? And by this we mean a document or book that outlines the key ideas or things you should know for doing ‘something’ … like reliability. There are many textbooks which are (let’s face it) not helpful because they are ‘too technical’ – and not useful for the majority of reliability decisions. But we can go too far the other way as well and make things too simple – so we just plug and play tools. Without knowing what each tool does. Sound familiar? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 592 Knowledge vs Rote
Knowledge vs Rote
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Chris and Fred discuss the urge for (us) reliability engineers to rush to use a tool – and not understand what that tool does, how it works, or even if it answers the question you are trying to answer. Why is this? We sometimes (always) like solving problems. But in our rush to solve a problem … do we solve the right problem? Do we create more problems? What’s a ‘problem?’ Sound familiar or scary? Listen to this podcast.
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SOR 591 MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve
MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve
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Kirk and Fred discussing how testing a small sample size of a new product results on a larger margin of error for the larger population.
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SOR 590 The Balance of Good Enough
The Balance of Good Enough
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Kirk and Fred discussing the trade-offs between selling more reliable equipment for different markets, costs, and how reliable can we make a product
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SOR 589 Ready to Use Field Data
Ready to Use Field Data
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Adam and Fred discussing the best methods for integrating field data into established reliability programs.
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SOR 588 Customer Satisfaction and Reliability Perception
Customer Satisfaction and Reliability Perception
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Adam and Fred discussing how customer satisfaction with a product affects their perception about reliability performance.
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SOR 587 Use Case 7 and HALT
Use Case 7 and HALT
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Adam and Fred discussing how the philosophy of HALT and Use Case 7 share some common ground.
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