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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The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part II

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Carl and Fred discuss to discuss the most common mistakes made by FMEA practitioners and how they can be avoided.
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The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part I

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Carl and Fred discuss some of the most common mistakes made by FMEA practitioners and how they can be avoided. In this episode, 4 of the most common mistakes are discussed.
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Benefits of Reliability Education for the Entire Team

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Adam and Fred discuss the importance of teaching, coaching and encouraging your engineering peers.
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Generate Invitations to Improve Reliability within Your Company

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Adam and Fred discuss how to help your team want to learn about reliability.
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HAST in Production

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Adam and Fred discuss HAST, HASS, and HASA as products transition from development to manufacturing.
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