Justifying the Investment in Your Maintenance Program

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James and Fred discussing how to determine the right initial investment in your reliability program.
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Failure Analysis:When is Enough, Enough

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John and Fred discussing how to know you have sufficient failure analysis to stop pursuing the analysis.
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Prediction or Estimate of Reliability

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John and Fred discuss when we include reliability predictions and estimates in our program.
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Getting FRACAS to Serve Your Team

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John and Fred discussing failure reporting and corrective action systems.
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Planning and Conducting Effective Design Reviews

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John and Fred discussing how to get more value from design reviews by focusing on failure mechanisms.
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Reliability Analytics for Asset Management

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James and Fred discussing data analysis tools for use in asset management work.
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SMRP Conference Roundup

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James and Fred discussing the SMRP conference and his experience presenting two papers.
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SOR 163 How many stresses should you add to your HALT

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Kirk and Fred discussing the adaptability of a HALT process and what stresses should be included in a HALT evaluation.
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Do we have to follow the HALT test plan?

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Kirk and Fred discussing the creation of a HALT plan and how to adapt HALT plans based on what is discovered during the HALT process.
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HALT Sample Size

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting samples to test during product development. Early prototypes of new products are typically scarce, expensive, and in high demand to many engineering teams to test. HALT testing requires pushing the product to operational limits and discovering what will fail which is scary for management and engineers that do not understand the value of information that is discovered with empirical limit tests.

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Validation and Verification

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Kirk and Fred discussing the differences between the terms process validation and verification during new product development

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Conferences: Your Professional Networking

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Kirk and Fred discussing the role technical conferences play in your professional development
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Technical Papers: Your Professional Reading

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Andre and Fred discussing how journal papers fit into your reliability engineering professional development.
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Balancing Reliability Testing and Modeling

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Andre and Fred discussing the interplay of modeling and testing to enhance the value you get with your testing.
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Reliability and Maintenance Strategy

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James and Fred discussing finding the balance between designing in reliability and optimizing maintenance practices.
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