Moose Lodge Syndrome
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Greg and Fred discuss how institutions can and should adapt, but often don’t. The result is that even most Fortune 500 companies have a 10 year half life.
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SOR 945 Moose Lodge Syndrome
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 944 Check Your (Decision Making) Bias
Check Your (Decision Making) Bias
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Greg and Fred discuss how bias is a part of all of us. Our challenge is that bias impacts our decision making from simple rules of thumb to complex decisions.
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SOR 943 Failure and Hazard Rate
Failure and Hazard Rate
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Chris and Fred discuss the similarities and differences between two terms that many people think mean the same thing.
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SOR 942 Field and Operational Time
Field and Operational Time
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Chris and Fred discuss a listener’s question about dealing with different ‘duration’ metrics for their field data … so how do we find things like ‘operating time’ and other age-related metrics that aren’t calendar time that simply aren’t there?
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SOR 941 Risk vs Reliability
Risk vs Reliability
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Carl and Fred discuss whether the reliability community should focus on the body of knowledge associated with risk or reliability. ᐅ Play Episode
SOR 940 When I Know it’s Not Right
When I Know it’s Not Right
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Carl and Fred discuss a question brought up at recent conference: what do you do when you are supposed to do something that you know is not the right thing to do? The context was reliability engineering and management.
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SOR 939 When to Consider Reliability
When to Consider Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discuss at what point in the product development process should we consider applying reliability engineering to the concept and actual prototypes.
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SOR 938 Predicting the Unknowns
Predicting the Unknowns
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Kirk and Fred discuss the world of reliability predictions and the issue of predictions when many, if not most of the causes of unreliability, are surprises.
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SOR 937 Be Helpful
Be Helpful
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Chris and Fred discuss the importance of being helpful when it comes to reliability engineering. After all, it is much easier to have people want to come to you as opposed to forcing them to do something they don’t want to. To be influential is to be helpful.
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SOR 936 Interpreting Formulae
Interpreting formulae and not just generating numbers …
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Chris and Fred discuss how formulae (or formulas!) can be very important … but it is way more important to understand what formulae represent, and how they work. Listen to this podcast if you want to learn more!
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SOR 935 Change Management Success
Change Management Success
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Greg and Fred discuss organizational change management and behavior change. Greg’s change management is sell the sizzle. Fred’s is give them the steak. Discover why?
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SOR 934 Contingency and Risk Planning
Contingency and Risk Planning
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Greg and Fred discuss various situations where contingency and risk planning may be required.
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SOR 933 FTA vs RBD
FTA vs RBD
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Chris and Fred discuss the differences, pros and cons of FTA (fault tree analysis) and RBD (reliability block diagrams). Need to learn more about how to model system reliability? Do you struggle to spell FTA or RBDs? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 932 K out of N Systems
K out of N Systems
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Chris and Fred discuss about this thing called a ‘k out of n’ system … and how most people don’t really know about how they contribute to system reliability. Do you know what the reliability curve of a ‘k out of n’ system looks like when compared to series or parallel systems? Don’t know what these systems are? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 931 FMEA Detection – Useful?
FMEA Detection – Useful?
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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about assessing risk related to detection, as part of FMEA procedure, specifically its usefulness and application.
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