Warranty to Failure Rate
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Chris and Fred discuss what (if anything) we can learn from advertised warranty or reliability specifications from vendors.
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Chris and Fred discuss what (if anything) we can learn from advertised warranty or reliability specifications from vendors.
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Chris and Fred discuss how we communicate reliability to our customers. And they haven’t completed university courses in reliability engineering …
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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘confidence,’ ‘tolerance’ and ‘prediction’ intervals. Is there any point in understanding the difference between these concepts? … or is it something only statisticians find useful?
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Chris and Fred discuss the pointlessness of the MTBF. This comes from a listener who reached out to complain about how lots of industries enforce the MTBF … but why?
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Chris and Fred discuss about what happens when we ‘defer’ maintenance … or do it later … or perhaps never. When is it OK to do this?
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘what can go wrong’ in scenarios where it is almost impossible to even comprehend might happen … like when something is really old! ᐅ Play Episode
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Chris and Fred discuss how we create a ‘reliability plan.’ It is not simply a list of tools …
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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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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about finding a lab to help you come up with some meaningful reliability information. Does that laboratory exist?
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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called ‘stress-strength’ we hear a lot about in the world of reliability … especially when we need to use it to work out ‘reliability stuff.’
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability data analysis really doesn’t mean a lot … unless you pair it with a failure mechanism. Why is this? What does that mean?
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means (as a reliability engineer) to try and change something … even though the organization that thinks they are open to change really isn’t. What can we do?
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Chris and Fred discuss the seemingly never resolved question on ‘who’ is responsible for making something reliable? Is it the supplier? The designers? The manufacturers? Aliens?
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Chris and Fred discuss what this term ‘confidence’ means … especially when it comes to statistics (and reliability)
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘regression metrics’ … or numbers that software packages spit out at us to suggest if a statistical model is ‘good’ or not. But if this is the only thing you (as an engineer) rely on to understand your system … you are already in trouble!
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