Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss how competing business priorities create obstacles to achieving desired reliability objectives. The culture of your organization may limit your ability as a reliability professional to do your job effectively.

Key Points

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the situation when shipping and growing thwarts the ability to recognize and take action to solve serious reliability or safety concerns.

We quickly review the Takata airbag inflator issue and the GM ignition switch issue.

Topics include:

• Kirk and John Paschkewitz’s new book “Next Generation HALT and HASS”
• Conflicts between reliability risk and meeting a market or project goal
• Lack of shared reliability/failure knowledge to guide better testing

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability, where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

SOR 112 Organization Culture May Create Barriers to Reliability ImprovementKirk Gray

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Show Notes

Here is a link to the book “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems” by Kirk A. Gray and John J. Paschkewitz

Here is a link to Kirk’s blog on the GM ignition switch failures

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