SOR 526 Advanced versus Traditional Methods
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Carl discusses the role of advanced reliability methods, and why both traditional and advanced reliability methods are important.
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SOR 526 Advanced versus Traditional Methods
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SOR 525 The Chain of Robustness
SOR 525 The Chain of Robustness
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Adam discusses the importance of following the path of “next in line” failures as stresses increase.
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SOR 524 Why Did I Write a HALT Book
Why Did I Write a HALT Book
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Kirk discusses the reason he wrote a book, co-authored with John Paschkewitz, on basic HALT and HASS methods along with new developments and opportunities to use HALT methods for digital software-hardware failure issues.
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SOR 523 Getting the Best from Your Root Cause Analysis
SOR 523 Getting the Best from Your Root Cause Analysis
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James discusses the story of the one machine that was causing a lot of grief.
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SOR 522 Create Value
SOR 522 Create Value
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Fred discusses learning how to capturing the value created when working as a reliability engineer.
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SOR 521 Rules and Reliability Engineering
SOR 521 Rules
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Chris discusses ‘rules’ – rules we need to apply and rules we must bend. Rules can range from traditional practices and procedures through to the laws of nature. But we as reliability engineers need to know which of these rules we must adhere to, and which are our duty to try and bend. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 520 The Importance of People Skills
SOR 520 The Importance of People Skills
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Carl discusses how good people skills can supplement your reliability engineering skills, and why they are both important.
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SOR 519 Defining Use Cases for a Product
SOR 519 Defining Use Cases for a Product
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Adam discusses the importance of defining use cases thoroughly and early
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SOR 518 The Folly of Reliability Predictions
SOR 518 The Folly of Reliability Predictions
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Kirk discusses the continued reliance on the misleading approach of using reliability prediction for reliability development.
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SOR 517 Compliance
SOR 517 Compliance
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James discusses the struggle to implement a program when access to the equipment being limited.
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SOR 516 Understand Failure Mechanisms
SOR 516 Understand Failure Mechanisms
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Fred discusses the need to fully understand failure mechanisms in order to make meaningful reliability improvements.
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SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets
SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets
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Chris discusses ‘reliability security blankets.’ You know what security blankets are – the things that parents offer young children to make them feel safe and comfortable. Not because these blankets actually offer warmth, comfort or safety – but rather because the children associate feelings of warmth and safety with that object because it is ‘always there’ when they are at home or go to be. A reliability security blanket does the same thing – it calms the leaders, managers, bosses, and directors of an organization. But – that is it! There is no reliability to be found. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 514 Planning for Failures
SOR 514 Planning for Failures
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Carl discusses the importance of understanding how things fail, during product development.
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SOR 513 The Idea of Use Case 7
SOR 513 The Idea of Use Case 7
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Adam discusses how the Use Case 7 concept can rapidly improve product design
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SOR 512 Learning From Any Failure
SOR 512 Learning From Any Failure
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Kirk discusses the many times his home appliances failing and doing his own failure analysis and the limitations.
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