How to Tell if Your Supplier Has the Right Expertise

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Tim and Fred discuss how to “interview” a supplier to determine what they really know about quality and reliability, and how they’re likely to behave if you have a problem.
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The What, Who, How, When, and Why of Reliability Tasks

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Carl and Fred discuss reliability tasks and how we should approach reliability planning. Details including the rationale need to be clear.
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Supplier Not Meeting Your Reliability Requirements

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Carl and Fred discuss including reliability specifications in supplier requirements, too.

We discuss the impact of the focus on cost and delivery and adding reliability to the discussion and contracts.
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Setting Reliability Objectives Like Any Specification

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Carl and Fred discuss setting reliability requirements.

Instead of a soft goal or “generally good” thing to achieve, make them specific and clear. Make them a requirement to for the development teams to achieve.
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The Environment is Part of the Definition of Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the connection of environmental testing to the reliability performance of a product.

The relationship between performance elements of a product and how they perform in the range of environmental conditions expected.
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Senior Management’s Role Concerning Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the role of senior managers within the reliability program.

Also when and how managers should get involved with your reliability program. And, remember your senior management can delegate tasks, not their responsibility.
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Design for Reliability and Testing

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Carl and Fred discuss the general definition of design for reliability, then the essential essence of DFR. The ability to influence the point of decision during the design and development process.
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Using DFMEAs as Intended

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Adam and Fred discuss how one of the forgotten core functionalities of DFMEA is its contribution to successful project management.
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Syncing Marketing and Reliability Engineering

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Adam and Fred discuss how to sync marketing and reliability engineering goals.
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Balancing Time to Market and Reliability Priorities

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Adam and Fred discuss how mid project priorities may pause or stop reliability activities
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Marketing is Driving Reliability

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Adam and Fred discuss how many industries that historically didn’t put product reliability as the most critical competing factor now do.
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Selecting the Correct ALT

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Adam and Fred discuss the criticality of selecting the correct ALT for the product to be tested.
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Introduction to Acceleration Models

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Adam and Fred discuss the fundamentals of Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)
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Team Culture and Reliability

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Adam and Fred discuss with guest Jim McCarthy, of McCarthy Industries, how organizational cultures can change to include long term deliverables.
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Getting Important Services from Your Supplier

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Tim and Fred discuss the risks of focusing only on cost, and how that prevents companies from getting more from their suppliers.
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