Backup Balance
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Kirk and Fred discussing how much we should invest in backup power or systems redundancy to prepare for rare weather or use conditions.
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SOR 836 Backup Balance
Speaking of Reliability
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SOR 835 Role of Technical Papers
Role of Technical Papers
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Kirk and Fred discussing technical papers, which Fred and Kirk have a few on the website Research Gate, and the role they play in the reliability engineering world.
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SOR 834 Reliability Assumptions
Reliability Assumptions
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Carl and Fred discussing the broad subject of assumptions, and how they impact reliability analysis and applications. When are assumptions good and when are they questionable?
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SOR 833 FMEA Occurrence Question
FMEA Occurrence Question
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Carl and Fred discussing a question received by an Inside FMEA reader on the subject of FMEA occurrence rating.
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SOR 832 What is Your Approach
What is Your Approach
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Chris and Fred discuss your approach for estimating the reliability of a new product, with new technology, manufactured in a new facility? … wow!
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SOR 831 Setting up an ORT
Setting up an ORT
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to establish an Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT) … or is it an accelerated test? … or the MTTF?
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SOR 830 Dealing With Product Characteristics
Dealing With Product Characteristics
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Dianna and Fred discussing engineering projects and dealing with product characteristics and requirements.
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SOR 829 New Ways to Break Things
New Ways to Break Things
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Dianna and Fred discussing new innovations from a reliability point-of-view: how is this new stuff going to break? What are going to be the new ways to break things?
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SOR 828 New School Leadership
New School Leadership
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Chris and Fred discuss the changing ideas of leadership … and how people lament newer generations and their approaches to (and expectations of) leadership. There are challenges … so what does this mean?
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SOR 827 60th Percentile with Vendor Data
60th Percentile with Vendor Data
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What does this title mean? Chris and Fred discuss how some vendors make ‘startling’ claims regarding reliability from some small amounts of test data. So where does this 60th percentile some of us hear from time to time come from?
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SOR 826 Reliability and Statistics
Reliability and Statistics
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of statistics in reliability engineering, where they are useful and where their use may not be the most efficient way to find and fix the cause of failure.
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SOR 825 Learning about Failures
Learning about Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the idea of listing of failure mechanisms and their different viewpoints on how we learn some of the common failure mechanisms
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SOR 824 Single Use Product Reliability
Single Use Product Reliability
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Dianna and Fred discussing single use product reliability. For products that are used once and then disposed or recycled, do we need to consider and plan for their reliability? The short answer: yes! They talk about the things to consider with single use products.
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SOR 823 Stresses and Mechanism
Stresses and Mechanism
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Dianna and Fred discussing a listener question about understanding stresses and mechanism of failures of a new design.
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SOR 822 Identify Weak Points
Identify Weak Points
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Kirk and Fred discussing how a good reliability development process is to identify the weaknesses to improve a product including a recent fence repair at Kirk’s house.
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