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Adam Bahret — inactive contributor

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


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Coaching Works

Coaching Works

A coach is an external set of eyes and ears.  They will break down the way you do things and assist with building it up better.

In many disciplines our learning curve rolls over to a plateau as the years pass.  Finding ways to continue to improve can be difficult.  The traditional, methods of education, formal training, and self directed improvement take significant time investment.

Coaching is not training.  Training is pre-constructed material.  Coaching is an observation and prescriptive method for improvement.

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SOR 327 Improving Reliability with Outsourced Designs

SOR 327 Improving Reliability with Outsourced Designs

Improving Reliability with Outsourced Designs

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Adam and Fred discussing how to improve a product that is developed with a contract manufacturer (CM)
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SOR 326 Properly Preparing for Reliability Testing

SOR 326 Properly Preparing for Reliability Testing

Properly Preparing for Reliability Testing

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Adam and Fred discussing how to prepare for Accelerated Life Tests.
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Pushing Too Hard

Pushing Too Hard

It’s early in the boating season.  It’s a beautiful Saturday and wee’re wakeboarding, My wife is driving.  I am getting ready to line up to jump the wake and all of a sudden she cuts the throttle and then guns it again.  I just let go of the rope and wait for her to come around so I can find out if it was the dirty dishes left on the  couch or beard shavings carelessly sprinkled on her face soap.  She said the boat just stuttered without her touching the throttle.  Hmmm  really? As we are talking the boat just stalls. Ughh!, and we are not close to the house.

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Strategy

Strategy

Some leaders mistake “customer focus” to mean they have to serve all of the customers needs or respond to every request from the field. There are multiple needs I have for a vehicle. Because of this I have more than one vehicle. Many manufacturers have tried to make a car or truck that does everything. It often just ends up being a vehicle that is great at nothing. (See Pontiac Aztek)

Know your target. Make goals, make compromises. Don’t commit to high reliability without making sacrifices. Something has to move either it be schedule or new technology development. There are no worse words than a leader saying “…and it must be highly reliable” without discussing the cost of pursuing that reliability goal. Know up front if you are willing to trade reliability for growth of technology or time to market.

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SOR 322 Balance of Reliability in Different Products

SOR 322 Balance of Reliability in Different Products

Balance of Reliability in Different Products

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Adam and Fred discussing the balance of product factors in product development
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Margin Call

Margin Call

Stress Margin is an interesting topic because our gut reaction is “more is better.”  But more isn’t better. The key is figuring out “How much and where?”  this is where the attention should be paid.

Too much stress margin can end the project the same way making material too thick will turn a plane into nothing more than a crappy diner with too much security.  It’s the correct margin that is needed.  How do we select the correct margin?

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SOR 321 Is There a Business Strategy that Includes Poor Reliability

SOR 321 Is There a Business Strategy that Includes Poor Reliability

Is There a Business Strategy that Includes Poor Reliability

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Adam and Fred discussing the connection between business and reliability goals
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SOR 320 How Regulatory Testing Drains Resource

SOR 320 How Regulatory Testing Drains Resource

How Regulatory Testing Drains Resource

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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how industries with regulatory oversight often end up minimizing reliability test programs
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SOR 319 Software Reliability Methodology

SOR 319 Software Reliability Methodology

Software Reliability Methodology

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Adam, Chris Stapelmann, and Ann Marie Neufelder discussing software reliability methodology
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The “Mid-Life Crisis” Use-Case

The “Mid-Life Crisis” Use-Case

When a product has broad usage profiles how do you create one for a test protocol.  Do you select the easiest?  Obviously not because there is risk of a high failure rate from poor evaluation.  Do you select the hardest use-case?  You could but there is the risk you spend too much time and money making the product overly robust for most of your customers.

In these cases where test time is limited and only a single use case can be tested I create a “Composite” use-case.  It captures many of the different types of stresses from the full list of use-cases but keeps an accumulated stress on the design that represents at least 98% of the customers.

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Stages of Awakening

Stages of Awakening

A common progression (stages of awakening) for an organization that has a minimal application of reliability tools to one that is large market holder with the right reliable product is often like this

Stage 1) “Reliability” testing is mostly re-labeled verification and validation testing.  It measures if the design does what it is supposed to do at the end of the program.  Tests are executed with the intent of passing, not learning about the product or it’s performance under variability.  The organization experiences a large field failure surge due a single or multiple issues.  The pain of this experience in dollars, market image, and lost resource through “recovery phase” awakens them to the high ROI of incorporating reliability tools early and throughout the product development process

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SOR 317 How do the Different Levels of Management Implement Reliability into Product Development

SOR 317 How do the Different Levels of Management Implement Reliability into Product Development

How do the Different Levels of Management Implement Reliability into Product Development

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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing the use of reliability tools across the organization.
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SOR 316 Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability

SOR 316 Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability

Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability

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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing metrics for reliability software.
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Improving Reliability with a CM

Improving Reliability with a CM

Many product development teams use a contract manufacturer (CM) to develop and manufacture their product. It’s the “develop” term that has limitations that may be unforeseen when engaging.  Many companies use the CM to assist or even eventually entirely execute the product development.  This can have great results or be problematic.  But let’s talk about the arrangements that work well.  Troublesome CM’s are a topic for a different time.

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