How to Get Started as a Reliability Engineer

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Andre and Fred discuss how one becomes a reliability engineer.
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Dealing with Conflicting Priorities with Reliability

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Adam and Fred discuss dealing with cost reduction and reliability.
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What is Good Enough Reliability

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Adam and Fred discuss how to balance the goal of reliability with other program objectives:
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Are Environmental Standards Useful?

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Kirk and Fred discuss the marginal value of environmental standards.
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Where Do Environmental Specifications Come From?

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Kirk and Fred discuss where environmental specifications should come from and why they don’t all too often.
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Can We Reduce Early Life Failures?

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Kirk and Fred discuss a few ideas on minimizing early field failures with your product.
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Bonus: Discussion with Marcin Hinz

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Adam and Fred sit down at RAMS with Marcin to discuss his work and challenges as a reliability engineer.

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How to Set Environmental Specifications for Testing

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Andre and Fred discuss setting meaningful specifications and requirements.
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How Many Samples to Test

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Andre and Fred discuss this all too common question.
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The Iron Triangle and Reliability

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Tim and Fred discuss the classic scope-schedule-cost “iron triangle” that determines the priorities for product development, and how reliability and quality can be optimized in that environment.
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Bonus: Discussion with Larry Care

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Adam and Fred sit down at RAMS with Larry to discuss his work and challenges as a reliability engineer.

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Vendor’s Reliability Proof of ‘No Reported Problems’

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Tim and Fred discuss another comment sent from a listener who wonders whether they should have confidence in a supplier that says they’ve shipped millions of components without hearing any complaints about reliability.
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What To Do When the Supplier Changes Your Reliability Specification

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Tim and Fred address a question posed by a listener about a supplier who changed the reliability specification, and what can be done to help ensure that the customer’s standards are being met.
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Can Reliability be Measured without Physical Testing?

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Fred and Carl discuss the use of analytical tools to assess and measure reliability.
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Bonus: Discussion with Karen Sater

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Adam and Fred sit down at RAMS with Karen to discuss her work and challenges as a reliability engineer.

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