Consumer Electronics and Cars

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Mojan and Fred discuss consumer electronics and cars. Consumer and automotive electronics may share similar technologies, but their reliability challenges are worlds apart. Designing for the stresses of a living room is nothing like designing for the stresses inside a car.

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Planned Obsolescence

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Mojan and Fred discuss Planned Obsolescence in product development. Planned obsolescence isn’t just about making people buy the next model — it’s a complex mix of engineering, business, and sustainability decisions. How do we decide how long a product should really last?

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Training Options

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Kirk and Fred discuss the evolution of ways to learn reliability and failure analysis with so much information available on the internet.

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Failure Mechanism Awareness

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Kirk and Fred discuss the many different failure mechanisms and the need for understanding the failure mechanisms and causes of failures.
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What’s So Hard About Planning

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Carl and Fred discuss a subject that some people find difficult. How to plan for reliability.
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Soft Skills Plus

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Carl and Fred discuss the wide range of soft skills that reliability engineers need to learn, in order to be fully successful in their jobs.
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Overcoming Product Protections for HALT

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Kirk and Fred discuss turning off the built-in over-temperature production circuits to perform thermal HALT.

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HALT Late in the Program

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Kirk and Fred discuss using HALT for a product that has been in the field and has many documented reliability issues from the initial warranty returns
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The Trouble with Interfaces

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Carl and Dianna discuss the topic of interfaces, in reliability engineering and FMEA.
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Team Creativity Techniques

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Dianna and Carl discuss team creativity techniques, especially relating to FMEA.
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How Do we Set Reliability Requirements?

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Chris and Carl discuss a listener question on FMEA RPN and connection to reliability requirements.
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Pitfalls of Reliability Allocation

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Carl and Chris discuss the broad subject of reliability allocation. What is it, when is it used, and what are the primary pitfalls to success?
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Special Characteristics

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Carl and Dianna discuss two of the least understood and potentially powerful FMEA data elements: Special Product Characteristics for Design FMEAs, and Special Process Characteristics for Process FMEAs.
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How HA and FMEA Relate

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Dianna and Carl discuss the relationship between Hazard Analysis (HA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
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