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Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failures during development.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how we can insure we receive outsourced parts meet our requirements when we may not know what variances in specifications will affect your particular system.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent failure of an electric range/oven and the troubleshooting, FA and repair. See the show notes to see photos and details of the failure analysis.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the evolution of technology and reliability in consumer products.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent opinion article in the New York Times on technology waste.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of finding a latent problem in a product after your company has been producing and selling for some time.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how we continue to evolve our reliability expectations as technology becomes more robust and reliable.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the role and relationship of meeting standards and making a reliable product.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of understanding the root cause of failures for products that are hard to retrieve from the field or have other reasons that make failure analysis almost impossible.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the failures of the electrical grid due to a extreme cold and snow in Texas that was a very rare weather condition in February 2021.
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Kirk and Fred discussing two questions from a listener on HALT and ALT.
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This is part two of a discussion Kirk and Fred have over a recent ASQ newsletter with CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test sample questions at the end.
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This is the first part of two podcast that Kirk and Fred have on a recent ASQ Newsletter with sample CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test questions at the end and how outdated and for Kirk how it is perpetuating irrelevant and misleading reliability paradigms
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of HALT and whether there is a standard that is used for HALT and the use of test standards in general.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of “engineering judgement” in analysis of reliability testing and the results.
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