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SOR 373 A Brief History of Reliability

SOR 373 A Brief History of Reliability

A Brief History of Reliability

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Chris and Adam discuss a ‘brief history of reliability.’ There are many significant milestones in the history of mankind. The dawn of the iron age meant that instead of having tools that lasted a matter of days, humans could (in a very short period of time) create tools that lasted several human lifetimes. The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s taught us that we could ‘over-engineer’ a device so that it would last longer than its ‘useful life.’ There are many more different milestones and events that have defined reliability over time. And these have shaped how we deal with product and device reliability today. Learn more by listening to this podcast. ᐅ Play Episode

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108 – Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour

108 – Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour

Maintenance Engineer vs Reliability Engineer with Shon Isenhour

In the maintenance and reliability industry, we have maintenance engineers, manufacturing engineers, and reliability engineers. There is a little bit difference between the types. A maintenance engineer is there to make sure the equipment is in running condition as soon as possible once a failure occurs. He has to get the asset operational the quickest possible time. He performs day to day routine checks to make sure the asset is running without defects. He does precision maintenance and promotes industry best practices. He is responsible for checking alignment, balancing, and other technical effects that might be overlooked by others.
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105 – The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

105 – The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

The Importance of a Reliability Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg

The main goal of every organization is to get the quality product in the market. That’s why they spend millions of dollars to stay on the plan they had in place. They can’t do that if their equipment keeps failing. The only way to make it sure is to maintain it properly. And that is a job for reliability engineers. They are the ones who maintain the assets of the company. They find the cause of the failures and stop it by making the system design better. They play a role similar to the process engineer but their job has a wider scope.
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SOR 291 Let’s Change the Reliability Engineering Practice

SOR 291 Let’s Change the Reliability Engineering Practice

Let’s Change the Reliability Engineering Practice

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Kirk and Fred discussing the continued need to change much of the activities in reliability engineering in the goal of ensuring and improving the reliability of electronics and electro-mechanical systems.
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SOR 290 The Problems with Our Reliability Engineering Practice

SOR 290 The Problems with Our Reliability Engineering Practice

The Problems with Our Reliability Engineering Practice

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Kirk and Fred discuss the history of our Speaking of Reliability podcasts and the changes needed in approaches to reliability engineering and the need for leaders to continue practical and efficient reliability development.
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16 – A Discussion on Weibull Analysis with Fred Schenkelberg

16 – A Discussion on Weibull Analysis with Fred Schenkelberg

A Discussion on Weibull Analysis with Fred Schenkelberg

This episode of the weekly podcast discusses the basics of Weibull analysis and distribution technique. By using it you can precisely calculate the probability of failures through a statistical analysis of the failure data. As it is a statistical way of calculating the failure rate and getting an idea about the downtime and life of the equipment, it needs data.
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