What Should a Reliability Engineer Do
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Chris and Fred discuss what should a reliability engineer ‘do’? Isn’t this obvious? … is it?
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SOR 875 What Should a Reliability Engineer Do
SOR 869 Reliability Engineering and Marketing Similarities
Reliability Engineering and Marketing Similarities
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Chris and Fred discuss the similarities between reliability engineering and good marketing is. Why? … we have to try and convince lots of skeptics.
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SOR 792 Overcoming Resistance
Overcoming Resistance
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Chris and Fred discuss how we overcome cultural resistance to ‘good’ things – like better reliability engineering. Is it possible?
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SOR 600 How is Reliability Engineering Changing
How is Reliability Engineering Changing
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Fred discusses a couple of noticeable trends affecting our profession.
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SOR 566 An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering
An Effective Start in Reliability Engineering
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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.
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SOR 562 What are the New Challenges in Reliability Engineering?
What are the New Challenges in Reliability Engineering?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the new challenges in reliability engineering, which maybe the old challenges of moving away from the misleading approach of Failure Prediction Methodology (FPM) and for Fred its the continued use of MTBF as a metric for reliability.
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SOR 540 History of Reliability Part 2
History of Reliability Part 2
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Chris and Carl continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion that started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it). In the short time they had to talk about it, they came up with 6 reliability engineering epochs. Now Carl is going to see if there is anything to add – and importantly – anything to learn.
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SOR 539 History of Reliability Part 1
History of Reliability Part 1
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Chris and Adam discuss the history of reliability engineering. Everyone (customer, manufacturer, builder) has different ideas of what reliability is. And this has changed throughout history. Perhaps we can learn something from what reliability engineering has also changed throughout history. As they say – those who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it. This is the first of three podcasts that look at the history of reliability for this purpose: seeing what we can learn to help reliability engineering now and tomorrow.
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SOR 437 Possible Ways to Change the Reliability Engineering Industry
Possible Ways to Change the Reliability Engineering Industry
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Kirk and Fred discussing what it takes to really make industry-wide changes.
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153-What tool when with Ron Moore
What Tool? When? with Ron Moore
Today’s episode is based on What Tool When by Ron Moore. The book covers all the common tools that are handy in a workplace for a maintenance engineer. Then, it covers concepts like Manufacturing, six sigma, TPM, reliability and maintenance along with information about lots of tools. In the early chapters, it provides insights into leadership and culture change. It tells you about the very basics of having a tool around and how to use it but it also provides you the basic things that should be in place before you get to the tool part.
In this episode, we covered:
- The tools a Maintenance Engineer needs!
- How to make change!
- The steps you need to build a performance tool!
- And much more!
151- First Day as a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg
First Day as a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg
It is always a difficult first day for a reliability engineer in a new place. There are a lot of things to get yourself involved in and there are some tips that can really help you get through that successfully. The job of a reliability engineer requires always moving around, so there is hardly the need of finding the station first. A good reliability engineers always starts with getting the lay of the land first. This would involve getting to know the relevant personnel on the job and the people who can give you basic logistics of it.
In this episode, we covered:
- Tips for an RE’s first day!
- Why you should know the flow of data before analyzing.
- Understanding the type of communication you need to provide!
- And much more!
SOR 393 How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
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Kirk and Fred discussing how his career path led to being a reliability engineer and meeting a working with Gregg Hobbs. Ph.D. the reliability leader that gave him a new perspective on HALT and HASS.
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141 – Continuously Identify Problems w/ Peter Horsburgh
Continuously Identify Problems w/ Peter Horsburgh
Extraordinary Reliability Engineers always have some habits that differentiate them from the rest. One of these habits is that they identify the problem and really make sure that they understand it before they continue working towards its solution. A successful reliability engineer doesn’t just rely on the failure data, he actually analysis the problem, understands it, takes feedback from different people, and then deploy resources to fix that problem. When you really know what’s going on with your assets, only then you can hope to come up with a good solution that will stop that problem to occur repeatedly.
In this episode, we covered:
- What are the 5 Habits of an Extraordinary Reliability Engineer?
- What is Habit #1?
- Why Habit #1 is so important?
- How to incorporate Habit #1 into your day to day activities?
- And much more!
SOR 381 Ultimate Career Goal for Reliability Engineering
Ultimate Career Goal for Reliability Engineering
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Carl and Fred discuss a suggested topic from a listener: what is the ultimate career goal for a reliability engineer? Which are the advantages and disadvantages for each possible career path?
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SOR 374 Reliability Security Blankets
Reliability Security Blankets
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Chris and Adam discuss ‘reliability security blankets.’ What are these? These are things that people or organizations do to give the illusion of ‘achieving something to do with reliability’ primarily to make them ‘feel’ better. Reliability security blankets tend to have little positive benefit. When we are focused on a feeling of ‘reliability goodness’ we quickly try to find the easiest way to get that feeling. Which leads us to standard or outdated methods, non-critical thinking, or (worst case) tests that are structured to ensure a system or product passes. Resources are sucked away from good reliability activities to create these reliability security blankets. If you think this applies to your organization, listen to this podcast.
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