Matching Skills Across Your Supply Chain

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Tim and Fred discuss the advantages of choosing a supplier with complementary skills, and how supplier selection is like interviewing and hiring a new employee.

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3D Printing Impact on Supply Chain and Reliability

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Tim and Fred discuss the emergence of 3D printing, and some of the implications to supply chains and product reliability testing.

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What do companies look for when hiring a reliability engineer?

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Carl and Fred discuss what companies look for when considering hiring a new reliability engineer.

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How can you know if you are a capable reliability engineer?

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Carl and Fred discuss how individual reliability engineers can assess their skills to determine their personal level of competency and value to the company.

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How does big data influence reliability engineering?

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Carl and Fred discuss the advent of big data, with huge amounts of easily available information covering temperatures, loads, and other customer usage parameters.

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What to Look For in Supplier Audits

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Tim and Fred discuss the importance of audits to assess the supplier capabilities and determine whether a supplier can consistently meet your quality and reliability requirements.

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What Does a Procurement Engineer Really Do?

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Tim and Fred discuss the role of procurement engineers and the supply chain management team generally in helping to ensure a good match between what product designers need and what suppliers can provide.

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How to Prevent NDF Returns

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Kirk and Fred discuss what we can do during product development before shipping a product that will help reduce warranty returns that seem to have no identifiable failure mode.

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How to Address NDF Issues

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Kirk and Fred discuss how using environmental stress can help discover marginal operation failures and intermittent connections that are not detectable during bench testing and troubleshooting at ambient conditions.

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Not Sure Why Your Customer Says it Failed

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Kirk and Fred discuss the problem of products being returned because the customer claims it failed and yet when tested to verify or identify the failure mode, it seems to be working as it should.

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Define Availability Uptime and Reliability to Get Them Right

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Adam and Fred discuss how important getting the definitions right to support decision making.

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What Triggers a Focus on Reliability?

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Adam and Fred discuss the circumstances that encourage an organization to pay attention to reliability.

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Confusion between repairable and non-repairable data analysis

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Andre and Fred discuss the basic approaches for proper data analysis depending on the data source.
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Is DFX serial or parallel?

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Adam and Fred discuss the application of DFx methodology in the product development process.
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The Early Design Process and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the early design process and the reliability approach that can best integrate reliability objectives with the design team.
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