
Evaluating a Discreet Component for Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing a question on testing of a single transistor for reliability assurance.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a question on testing of a single transistor for reliability assurance.
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Chris and Fred discuss how we need to estimate monthly failure rates of a product. Like when bosses or directors want to know what the ‘failure’ or ‘return’ rate of a product is this month. But is this useful? How do we account for the number of products we have shipped? How old are the products when they fail? And how do we learn from these numbers? Can we even find a number? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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Chris and Fred continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it) and kept going with Chris and Carl (and you can click here to listen to it). Between all of them, they came up with 8 reliability engineering epochs. Now it is Fred’s turn to work out what has been missed, and what all of this means what reliability engineering looks like in the future.
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Chris and Carl continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion that started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it). In the short time they had to talk about it, they came up with 6 reliability engineering epochs. Now Carl is going to see if there is anything to add – and importantly – anything to learn.
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Chris and Adam discuss the history of reliability engineering. Everyone (customer, manufacturer, builder) has different ideas of what reliability is. And this has changed throughout history. Perhaps we can learn something from what reliability engineering has also changed throughout history. As they say – those who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it. This is the first of three podcasts that look at the history of reliability for this purpose: seeing what we can learn to help reliability engineering now and tomorrow.
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Adam and Jordon Suls discussing how reliability engineers find the reliability engineering profession
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Adam and Kishor Trivedi discussing new ways to model software reliability.
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Adam and Tim Gaens discussing how reliability engineering can often be a team of one in an organization.
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Chris and Joe Bell from G2OPs talk about systems engineering and how it relates to reliability engineering. Joe and his team focus on Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and was hoping to learn more about reliability and MBSE at the 2020 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS). Was RAMS successful in helping out Joe? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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Adam and Keith Clark discussing the powerful impact of creating a new role in the organization, The Reliability Czar.
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Adam and Joe Schwendler discussing how “corner case use” in testing can quickly identify robustness weaknesses and most importantly wear out.
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Adam and Jessica discussing how the culture of reliability and maintenance can have a dramatic effect in how production and field issues are resolved.
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Carl discusses the unique role that FMEA can play in a reliability program, when done exceptionally well.
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Kirk discusses a very interesting failure mechanism in a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) design and manufacturing company he briefly worked at and what the detailed failure analysis showed.
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James discusses the dilemma of different groups complaining at the same time about too few and too many spares stocked.
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