Cycles or Time

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Kirk and Fred discuss whether we should use time or number of cycles or total time a product has been available for use.
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Creating Reliability Awareness

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Chris and Fred discuss how to help me, you and the people around us more aware of reliability (and reliability engineering)? Good question!
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Required to Use MIL-HDBK 217?

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Chris and Fred discuss Military Handbook 217 Version F for the ‘Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment’ or MIL-HDBK 217F … and why being forced to use it is borderline evil.
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Using DFR Tools

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Kirk and Fred discuss using Design for Reliability (DFR) for reliability development of a new product.
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Using Outside Labs

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Kirk and Fred discuss the use and tradeoffs of using external environmental testing and failure analysis labs versus having in-house equipment
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Dealing with Data

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Philip and Fred discuss the first basic steps when confronted with a pile of data.

• What do you do with a stack of data – can you make any sense of this – please? Can you believe the analysis results?
• Designing systems to capture the data you need, not the data you have. 🙂
• How do you work with less than perfect failure information?
• What happens when we mix end of life data with functional failure data – when do we “informatively censor” and how do we treat this type of data?
• Interwoven life renewal data and asset failure – how do we “see” missing data?
• Deploying the Reliability Performance Index (RpK) – how to adapt Statistical Process Control topics (SPC) Reliability.
• What is Integrated Process Control (IPC), Key Input Variables (KIV) and Key Output Variables (KOV)?
• What is an Asset failure? How to manage data from our CMMS or ERP system – how to deal with data sets with only replacement events?
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Consumable Product Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss how to approach reliability objectives and testing for consumable elements of a product or system.
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Assumptions and Analysis

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Philip and Fred discuss a fundamental element of all statistical analysis.
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Why is Reliability a Process?

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Carl and Fred discuss the process of reliability, which also happens to be the name of their new book. They answer the question “why is reliability a process”? and discuss what happens if reliability is only approached as a series of methods.
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How Root is the Cause?

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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of identifying root causes and how deep to go.  It’s not as simple as getting to the “root.”
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Environmental Testing

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Kirk and Fred discuss the question of using a standard series of environmental test for reliability development.
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A HALT Plan Question

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Kirk and Fred discuss a test plan sent to Kirk and how this plan misses the point of accelerated testing.
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Good Reliability Requirements

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Carl and Fred discuss the essence of well-written reliability requirements. They are much more than reliability numbers.
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Common FMEA Confusions

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Carl and Fred discuss common FMEA confusions that come up from time to time. These are condensed from questions that Carl gets from “Inside FMEA” readers.
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Learning What You Don’t Know

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Greg and Fred discuss keeping up professionally, which is a requirement these days to continue to be marketable.
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