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Carl and Fred discussing the need to be fast in smaller or startup companies. Reliability engineering can adapt to a fast culture and support lean product development, without compromising essential tasks.
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘regression metrics’ … or numbers that software packages spit out at us to suggest if a statistical model is ‘good’ or not. But if this is the only thing you (as an engineer) rely on to understand your system … you are already in trouble!
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Chris and Fred discuss the limits of ‘technology solutions’ … especially when it comes to reliability – mainly because there is always a human being involved!
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Dianna and Fred discussing customer service: personal and professional experiences.
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Dianna and Fred discussing why and how to encourage new engineers and foster younger generations to consider engineering as a profession.
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Kirk and Fred discussing dealing with suppliers in dealing with failures in complex interconnected systems.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a basic subject that Kirk has been speaking about for over three decades, Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and carrying the ideas of Gregg Hobbs, Ph.D. who termed the acronym and methodology
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have incomplete data. Isn’t data just data?
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Chris and Fred discuss this term we call ‘safe.’ What is ‘safe?’ How can we use the term ‘safe’ in industries that involve a lot of risk? Perhaps there is no such thing as ‘safe?’
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Greg and Fred discussing how risk assessment must be tailored to the context of the organization.
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Greg and Fred discussing how and why to conduct risk assessments.
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Dianna and Fred discussing software tools used by reliability engineers: the good, the bad, and pitfalls.
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Carl and Fred summarizing and discussing the latest questions received from readers and listeners.
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the use of FMEA when ramping up equipment in a plant. In this case, the equipment had been sitting dormant for a number of years.
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Kirk and Fred discussing their views on how to best learn the discipline of reliability engineering.
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