Safety and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.
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Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis

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Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.
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Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives

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Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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Lessons Learned Working From Home

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Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.
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Are You a Keyboard Jockey?

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Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers. Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.
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An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering

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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.
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Technical Skills for an Expert Reliability Engineer

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Carl and Fred discussing what it takes to be an expert reliability engineer, from a technical point of view.
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People Skills for an Expert Reliability Engineer

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Carl and Fred discussing the most important people skills that are needed to succeed as an expert in a reliability engineering career.

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Tips on Failure Analysis

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Kirk and Fred discussing doing failure analysis and the challenges
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What are the New Challenges in Reliability Engineering?

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Kirk and Fred discussing the new challenges in reliability engineering, which maybe the old challenges of moving away from the misleading approach of Failure Prediction Methodology (FPM) and for Fred its the continued use of MTBF as a metric for reliability.
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Reliability Informed Decision Making

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Chris and Fred discuss the typical decisions that are informed by reliability. It might be easier to list what decisions are not informed by reliability engineering. We came up with a list of 13 … and that is only because we ran out of time. What decisions you think are influenced by reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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Strategies for Designing a Reliable Product

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Chris and Fred discuss different strategies for reliability. We start with a couple of strategies that don’t work (big shout out to virtually every military customer … ever!) and then come up with some approaches that have been shown to work – at least in some circumstances. And that is the key – different scenarios demand different strategies. Sound interesting? Then this is the podcast for you.
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Understanding Customer Reliability Needs

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Chris and Carl discuss reliability management.
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How to Best Use Standards

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Carl and Fred discussing the proper role of standards in reliability programs: what makes for good standards, what makes for poor standards, and how to know the difference.
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