Software Reliability Methodology
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Adam, Chris Stapelmann, and Ann Marie Neufelder discussing software reliability methodology
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SOR 319 Software Reliability Methodology
106 – How to Learn from Failures with Fred Schenkelberg
How to Learn from Failures with Fred Schenkelberg
No matter how good you are at your job, there are always failures in the systems because of some reason. You can’t stop all of them but you can learn from them. There is always something to learn when a failure occurs. Whether it is finding the root cause or devising a solution to prevent it in the future. What happens in the industry that we forget what failures occurred in the last few years?—over the time. This is something that is alarming. It is your job to remember or communicate with those who might. That is how you can better assess the nature and root cause of the failure.
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SOR 318 Benefits of Collecting and Analyzing Failure Data and Root Cause Analysis
Benefits of Collecting and Analyzing Failure Data and Root Cause Analysis
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James and Fred discussing the benefits you and your organization will realize when doing FA and RCA correctly.
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SOR 317 How do the Different Levels of Management Implement Reliability into Product Development
How do the Different Levels of Management Implement Reliability into Product Development
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing the use of reliability tools across the organization.
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Fundamentals of Sample Size Determination
Fundamentals of Sample Size Determination
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A common question about reliability testing is, “What is the sample size?” It is also a difficult question to answer well. The right sample size balances cost, accuracy, and variability. In some cases, we also consider the time to results.
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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 316 Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability
Can MTBF be Used for Software Reliability
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing metrics for reliability software.
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SOR 315 What Makes a Great Reliability Program?
What Makes a Great Reliability Program?
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Chris and Fred discussing a few hallmarks of exceptional reliability programs.
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104 – What’s a Process Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg
What’s a Process Engineer with Fred Schenkelberg
The organizations that are more innovative and have a mark in the industry tend to do things that others don’t. So, what are those things and how do they do that? This is an area where process engineers play their role to increase the production and solve problems that come along the way. Sometimes they have to experiment using different chemicals, use the calculations, and use the recorded data to come up with processes that can increase the yield of a product without compromising the quality. Their job is to come up with the best ways to quantify product.
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SOR 314 Change in Vehicle Reliability with Autonomous Vehicles
Change in Vehicle Reliability with Autonomous Vehicles
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Chris and Fred discuss what likely autonomous vehicle (AV) operations mean to the ‘reliability industry’ given that these vehicles will have completely different operating profiles with perhaps surprising results.
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SOR 313 GM Announced the Launch of Autonomous Vehicles
GM Announced the Launch of Autonomous Vehicles
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Chris and Fred discuss GM’s recent announcement that they were going to start mass producing ‘truly’ autonomous vehicles (AVs) for use by 2019 and how this signals industry’s (not academia’s) intent to ‘make this happen.’
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103 – Leadership with Bill Leahy
Leadership with Bill Leahy
If there are a couple of things that pops to mind when talking about leadership is that leaders are made not born and that all leaders shared the same set of qualities that make them as such (think about John C. Maxwell’s book “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader”). These two statements seem to complement each other and reflect the general tone of today’s podcast episode.
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SOR 312 The Difference of Knowing you Know vs Not
The Difference of Knowing you Know vs Not
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing the difference between having created a reliable design and knowing why the design you created is reliable.
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SOR 311 Challenges with Field Data
Challenges with Field Data
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how to collect field data that can be trusted for product performance analysis and prediction.
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102 – Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 2 of 2
Reliability with a Best Practice Organization with Heinz Bloch, Part 2 of 2
Striving to be best in class is perhaps the ultimate goal of every organization. But what exactly does it take to get there? In the first part of this podcast, we talked about the changes seen in maintenance, reliability, and failure analysis over the years and what makes these practices successful in best in class organizations.
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