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Chris and Fred discuss the challenge of being asked by someone to show (or visualize) stunning, eye-popping results for some reliability activity. How do we do this? Is this possible?
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Kirk and Fred discuss the advice we would give a engineer just starting a career in Reliability Engineering
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Kirk and Fred discuss reliability allocations for individual components and subsystems.
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Chris and Fred discuss how short, 1-minute explainer videos could help reliability engineers … especially new ones!
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Chris and Fred discuss what Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CSSM) are … and what they are not … and how they relate.
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Carl and Fred discuss why understanding the “mode” of failure is essential in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.
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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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Dianna and Fred discuss selecting tools to solve problems that are outside of the workplace, too!
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Dianna and Fred discuss workplace politics: are silos an issue?
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Chris and Fred discuss why the Physics of Failure (PoF) is hard to model? … or is it?
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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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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.
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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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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Chris and Fred discuss where the ideas of ‘confidence bounds’ come from … and perhaps what they mean.
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