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Adam Bahret — inactive contributor

Author of Apex Ridge articles and co-hostSpeaking of Reliability.


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No excuses…You’re on the same planet

This is the wheel of the Curiosity Rover after millions of rotations on Mars.

rover wheel

This is how I feel after I ask customers about legacy product performance. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apex Ridge, Articles, on Product Reliability Tagged With: field data

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Never Purchase a Retired Rental Car

Never Purchase a Retired Rental Car

If you look around you day to day you can see a lot of examples of reliability testing.

When you are at the hardware store and looking at new power tools, notice which have broken switches, triggers, handles.  Many of us often just think it’s a defective one.  But it’s not.  It’s the weakest model of the bunch.

If all the models were put on display at similar times they have all been going through life cycle testing.  Every person that walks by picks it up and pulls the trigger, flips the switches bangs it around a bit.

It’s getting its life cycle testing done right in front of you. The one with the broken features is the model with the shortest life.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apex Ridge, Articles, on Product Reliability

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SOR 172 Plan to Build Enough Samples

SOR 172 Plan to Build Enough Samples

Plan to Build Enough Samples

Abstract

Adam and Fred discuss how to estimate and communicate the needed samples to execute the planned reliability test program.
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SOR 171 Balance TTM with Reliability

SOR 171 Balance TTM with Reliability

Balance TTM with Reliability

Abstract

Adam and Fred discussing how to balance product development, time to market, product cost, product features and product reliability with consistent methodology.
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Guiding Programs by Product Goals

Guiding Programs by Product Goals

A term that I use when describing product goals that are tangible and drive program decisions is “Product Asset.”

A Product Asset is “a fundamental attribute of a product that can be characterized as a quantitative measurable goal.”

The five Product Assets that I commonly select are the following:

  • technology features
  • reliability/quality
  • time to market
  • product cost
  • development program cost (considered an anchor asset)

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Filed Under: Apex Ridge, Articles, on Product Reliability

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ESS and HASS

ESS and HASS

Two of the most common acronyms used regarding manufacturing screening processes are ESS and HASS.

ESS stands for “Environmental Stress Screening” and HASS stands for “Highly Accelerated Stress Screening.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apex Ridge, Articles, on Product Reliability

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The Side Swipe (part 2): A Surge in Technology Growth

The Side Swipe (part 2):  A Surge in Technology Growth

It’s no longer an option to be the strong household name brand in an industry.

You have to expand your technology capabilities to stay in the market.

There are product lines that have had a consistent core technology for long periods of time.

Companies that are leaders in these are “the experts” and they hold maximum market share because the customers know what brand to buy if they want the best.

But if there is a sudden change in the technology, then that “bulletproof” brand name can be tarnished in one product cycle.

What if the core technology suddenly changes to include new electronics or software controls or something we would never have imagined.

The competitors are about to gain market share based on feature add, sometimes “jumped into the future” feature add; The iPad, Tesla electric vehicles, Tesla assisted autonomous driving, smartphone, Solid State memory, automotive electronic fuel injection, jet engines, desktop printer – this is a “Side Swipe”. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apex Ridge, Articles, on Product Reliability

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The Side Swipe: When Innovation is your Wheelhouse

The Side Swipe: When Innovation is your Wheelhouse

Many companies achieve great success based on their ability to create, invent, and develop a technology.

If this is the dominant focus of their product development programs they will maintain a high market share by continuing to be cutting edge.

These industries and technologies are highly competitive with respect to new features and functionality for a period of time, but the growth of any specific technology slows as it matures.

When this occurs, customers begin to put more weight on cost point and reliability when deciding which model or brand to purchase.

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SOR 153 Building Your Reliability Plan From Scratch

SOR 153 Building Your Reliability Plan From Scratch

Building Your Reliability Plan From Scratch

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Adam and Fred discussing the challenges and strategy for creating a reliability program plan.
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SOR 152 Building Your Reliability Program From Scratch

SOR 152 Building Your Reliability Program From Scratch

Building Your Reliability Program From Scratch

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Adam and Fred discussing the considerations when building a new reliability program.
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What do these products have in common?

What do these products have in common?

Bulletproof!

It is a very conscious decision to have reliability be a part of your products brand.

What conversations with marketing and the leadership have occurred for your next product development program?

Was there a conscious decision to place your product in a certain range of reliability?

Too many times it’s a discussion that happens as the product is reaching it’s Beta stage of development, “Let’s measure its reliability and see where it’s at and if we need to improve it”.

You can measure reliability that late in the game but you have little opportunity to change it.  So what if it is far lower than the product target market expects?

What if it is far overbuilt and millions of dollars of cost savings were missed in this first generation of the design?

It happens this way more than not. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apex Ridge, Articles, on Product Reliability

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SOR 144 Analyzing a Reliability Program Assessment

SOR 144 Analyzing a Reliability Program Assessment

Analyzing a Reliability Program Assessment

Abstract

Adam and Fred continue their three part series on Reliability program assessments
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SOR 143 Conducting a Reliability Program Assessment

SOR 143 Conducting a Reliability Program Assessment

Conducting a Reliability Program Assessment

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Adam and Fred discussing how one goes about conducting an assessment.
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SOR 142 Preparing for a Reliability Program Assessment

SOR 142 Preparing for a Reliability Program Assessment

Preparing for a Reliability Program Assessment

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Adam and Fred discussing a few critical steps when preparing for an program assessment.
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SOR 139 A Couple Approaches to Managing Lessons Learned

A Couple Approaches to Managing Lessons Learned

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Adam and Fred discussing how organizations effectively share and retain knowledge.
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