Just Assuming

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to ‘assume’ something. We assume things all the time in our daily lives. We would never get anything done if we didn’t rely on quick ‘guesses’ about the world around us. But then there are those ‘assumptions’ that get us in trouble. So what’s the difference?
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Regulation Reducing Safety

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Greg and Fred discuss conformity assessment and what should and can you do to comply with a regulatory requirement.
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Improving Information

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Greg and Fred discuss how to improve your ability to get the right information to solve the right problems.
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When to do Monte Carlo Simulation (… and what is it)?

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Chris and Fred discuss when you should do this thing called Monte Carlo simulation? … in fact … what is it?
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Many Ways to Estimate Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss how we can go about estimating reliability … especially when you don’t have a lot of data, experience or other things that textbooks say you need to have to estimate reliability?
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Lifespan of an FMEA

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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about what is called a “living FMEA.” Is this a good idea? How is it done?
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RCM and FMEAs

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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question on FMEAs that involve maintenance. Specifically, can a Design FMEA have causes that are maintenance related?
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Details and Plans

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Greg and Fred discuss why and how the triple constraints of a project: schedule, cost, and scope variances result in risks that can result in project failure.

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Plug and Pray

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Greg and Fred discuss why engineers plug numbers into a formula not really knowing why or what they are doing.  At best, this is called ‘plug and play.’  At worst, this is called ‘plug and pray’ the formula works.

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Bad History Challenge

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Kirk and Fred discuss how to deal with those who have said that they tried using the HALT methodology with a past project but did not find any benefit from it.
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Cycles or Time

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Kirk and Fred discuss whether we should use time or number of cycles or total time a product has been available for use.
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Creating Reliability Awareness

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Chris and Fred discuss how to help me, you and the people around us more aware of reliability (and reliability engineering)? Good question!
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Required to Use MIL-HDBK 217?

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Chris and Fred discuss Military Handbook 217 Version F for the ‘Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment’ or MIL-HDBK 217F … and why being forced to use it is borderline evil.
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Using DFR Tools

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Kirk and Fred discuss using Design for Reliability (DFR) for reliability development of a new product.
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Using Outside Labs

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Kirk and Fred discuss the use and tradeoffs of using external environmental testing and failure analysis labs versus having in-house equipment
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