Redundancy by Design
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of backups and system redundancy in the design of electronics for increased reliability.
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SOR 874 Redundancy by Design
SOR 872 Design Process Blindspots
Design Process Blindspots
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Carl and Fred discussing the interesting subject of “blind spots,” and how they can impede good designs.
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SOR 691 Design Failure Patterns
Design Failure Patterns
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Kirk and Fred discussing how new technology designs of buildings or electronics are usually over-designed in the first generation.
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SOR 560 Strategies for Designing a Reliable Product
Strategies for Designing a Reliable Product
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Chris and Fred discuss different strategies for reliability. We start with a couple of strategies that don’t work (big shout out to virtually every military customer … ever!) and then come up with some approaches that have been shown to work – at least in some circumstances. And that is the key – different scenarios demand different strategies. Sound interesting? Then this is the podcast for you.
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SOR 469 Should You Design for Corner Cases
Should You Design for Corner Cases
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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to design for the anticipated extreme corner case of environmental stresses that some percentage of the product may see in use.
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SOR 433 Reliability Design Risk Summary
Reliability Design Risk Summary
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Adam and Fred discussing tools for assessing risk to the products performance in the field
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SOR 385 Evolutionary vs Revolutionary Design and How It Affects Reliability
Evolutionary vs Revolutionary Design and How It Affects Reliability
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Adam and Chris discussing the difference between organizational strength’s in evolutionary vs revolutionary design process
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SOR 369 Principle 2 Design in Reliability
Principle 2 Design in Reliability
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Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, with focus on the second principle.
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SOR 351 Is There a Short Reliability Design Problem?
Is There a Short Reliability Design Problem?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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SOR 344 Reliability Risk and Design Freeze
Reliability Risk and Design Freeze
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Adam and Fred discussing the effectiveness of the “design Freeze” methodology in the product development process effectiveness.
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SOR 331 Startup, Design, and Reliability
Startup, Design, and Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss some of the challenges and issues faced by companies developing a ‘brand new’ product.
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SOR 255 How Much is Reliability Dependent on the Design, the Manufacturing, and the Customer Use Conditions?
How Much is Reliability Dependent on the Design, the Manufacturing, and the Customer Use Conditions?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the many causes and contributors to products failing after purchase. How do we know which factors are the largest contributor to causing failures?
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SOR 173 When to Focus on Robust Design
When to Focus on Robust Design
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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of robust design, what it is, and how it relates to reliability programs.
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29 – The Role of Training in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg
The Role of Training in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg
Today’s episode is about the role of training in affecting change. Sometimes you need to train the workforce to work better than the beginners but that completely depends on the culture of the organization and skills, knowledge, and abilities of the employees working out there.
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28 – Designing for Maintainability with Fred Schenkelberg
Designing for Maintainability with Fred Schenkelberg
This episode of the weekly podcast covers the need of designing for maintainability. It is one of the biggest processes involved in the area of reliability and helps in improving the availability of the equipment in time. So first of all, we need to understand what this term is —and the tools and techniques that are required to make it successful.
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