What is a Mode?
Abstract
Carl and Fred discuss why understanding the “mode” of failure is essential in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.
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SOR 970 What is a Mode?
Speaking of Reliability
Let us address your reliability engineering questions. Gain the experience of your peers and accelerate the improvement of your program and career.
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SOR 969 Common Reliability Mistakes
Common Reliability Mistakes
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Carl and Fred discuss some of the most common reliability mistakes they have seen in their careers, both ones they have personally made or viewed.
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SOR 968 Selecting Tools to Solve Problems
Selecting Tools to Solve Problems
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Dianna and Fred discuss selecting tools to solve problems that are outside of the workplace, too!
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SOR 967 Are Silos an Issue
Are Silos an Issue?
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Dianna and Fred discuss workplace politics: are silos an issue?
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SOR 966 Why is PoF so Hard?
Why is PoF so Hard?
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss why the Physics of Failure (PoF) is hard to model? … or is it?
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SOR 965 MTBF, Really?
MTBF, Really?
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Chris and Fred discuss the MTBF … again. And again. People don’t (want to) get it. So here we go again …
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SOR 964 Finding Failures and Firefighting
Finding Failures and Firefighting
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Kirk and Fred discuss new product market release schedule pressures, and then after customers start finding reliability issues, the actual firefighting begins. Many times, those who quickly can fix the causes of failures, the firefighters, get many more accolades than those who find and mitigate product weaknesses that become failures during the design and development phase.
SOR 963 Proving HALT Works
Proving HALT Works
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Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of showing those new to limit discovery using HALT and proving does find relevant future field issues that either already have occurred in a new released product, or in a product under development.
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SOR 962 Limits of Block Diagrams
Limits of Block Diagrams
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Chris and Fred discuss how we go about modeling the reliability of systems … particularly with things called ‘block diagrams.’ Might this help you?
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SOR 961 Where do Confidence Bounds Come From
Where do Confidence Bounds Come From
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Chris and Fred discuss where the ideas of ‘confidence bounds’ come from … and perhaps what they mean.
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SOR 960 Differing FMEA Approaches
Differing FMEA Approaches
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Carl and Fred discuss their overall approach to FMEA, what works and doesn’t work.
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SOR 959 Knotty Detection
Knotty Detection
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Carl and Fred discuss reader questions on FMEA detection, a subject which can be challenging and confusing. Detection is a key part of FMEA during product development as well as in operation. This podcast will discuss some of the “knottiest” challenges with understanding detection in FMEA.
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SOR 958 Learning Weibull Analysis
Learning Weibull Analysis
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Chris and Fred discuss Weibull Analysis and how it can help you can first take your ‘tentative’ steps to learn more about it.
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SOR 957 Learning From Those Closest
Learning From Those Closest
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Kirk and Fred discuss the fact that many times those on the assembly and production lines are the ones that have the most information for assembly issues and causes of failures, yet the information they have is not heard by the engineers and management that could improve it.
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SOR 956 Getting Failure Feedback
Getting Failure Feedback
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Kirk and Fred discuss the many required tests before market release and post market ongoing reliability testing and why testing is so necessary.
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