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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Fred have on a recent ASQ Newsletter with sample CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test questions at the end and how outdated and for Kirk how it is perpetuating irrelevant and misleading reliability paradigms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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Kirk and Fred discussing the public’s perception of reliability after having a product with poor reliability or one with impressive robustness and how the online sharing of information can affect that in sales, or lack of.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the reasons and practice of derating components for the purpose of improving the reliability of electronics products, as Kirk’s experience has shown most causes of unreliability are due to mistakes and overlooked errors in design, use, or manufacturing
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