Dealing with Interfaces

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Carl and Fred discussing interfaces and how they can be addressed in reliability programs.
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Value of Being Proactive

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James and Fred discussing the benefits and some constraints of shifting your maintenance program to a proactive stance.
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Influence Change Behavior

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Chris and Fred discuss how you can influence behavior. Good behavior. Like taking reliability seriously. It is not about what you say when you are forced to say it. It is about what you like saying and what you make your people do. So there are some things you can do to influence people in a good way. But it takes some effort on your behalf. Keen to learn more? Listen here!
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Cultural Avoidance of Engineering

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Chris and Fred discuss the organizations that culturally avoid engineering. Those organizations that for some reason, never ask for the data, the math, the tests, the thinking or anything else that might actually help you understand why your thing fails.
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When to Run Qualifications Again

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Chris and Fred discuss when you should run qualification tests again. A qualification test can be anything – essentially all your product, system or service has to do is meet or exceed something to get a tick in the box. So if you make a minor change to your system – do you need to run all your qualification tests again? Can you get away with not doing any? Listen to this podcast to learn more!
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What do We Have Confidence In?

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.
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Minimum Viable Reliability

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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?
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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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