What is the Failure Mechanism?
Abstract
Kirk and Fred discussing a very important question in all of unreliability.
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SOR 705 What is the Failure Mechanism
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SOR 704 What is this Risk Thing?
What is this Risk Thing?
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘risk’ is. Or what most people think ‘risk’ is. Or what the experts think ‘risk’ is. Or what ‘risk’ feels like. Do you know what ‘risk’ is?
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SOR 703 Hospital Power Supply Modeling
Hospital Power Supply Modeling
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Chris and Fred discuss a real-world problem … how do we use reliability engineering tools to work out how select a hospital power supply system.
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SOR 702 Podcasting and Reliability
Podcasting and Reliability
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James and Fred discussing how to know when you’re successful with a podcast.
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SOR 701 Time to Market and Reliability
Time to Market and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing companies making reliability a priority early in the product development as opposed to waiting to after market release to see if it’s reliability.
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SOR 700 Purpose of Accendo Reliability
Purpose of Accendo Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the many years of discussions on Speaking of Reliability since Fred and Kirk recorded Episode 1 in 2015, six years ago.
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SOR 699 Only have MTBFs
Only have MTBFs
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Chris and Fred discuss … MTBFs! Fred’s favorite! We (should) know that Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is not reliability. So what do we do if we somehow need to get reliability from nothing but the MTBF.
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SOR 698 Purpose of a Body of Knowledge
Purpose of a Body of Knowledge
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Chris and Fred discuss what the purpose of a ‘Body of Knowledge’ or BOK is? … or what is a BOK? … especially when it comes to reliability?
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SOR 697 Reliability and Poor Project Management
Implementing Reliability Programs
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Carl and Fred discussing the challenges associated with implementing reliability programs.
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SOR 696 Interpreting Test Results
SOR 695 Training and the Trades
Training and the Trades
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James and Fred discussing the impact of the labor shortage on maintenance programs.
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SOR 694 How and What to Learn
How and What to Learn
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James and Fred discussing learning from failures, yet shouldn’t we prevent failures?
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SOR 693 Thoughts on ALARP
Thoughts on ALARP
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Chris and Fred discussing another question from a listener based on ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ or ALARP. This is used a lot in risk management and analysis … but what is it?
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SOR 692 Reliability and Pumping Water
Reliability and Pumping Water
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Chris and Fred discussing service reliability based on a listener question where we don’t just look at reliability as it applies to an item, product or device. Instead … we look at ‘reliability of a service’ … or system, … or process. How can this help a farmer who is trying to work out how to best supply water to his cattle?
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SOR 691 Design Failure Patterns
Design Failure Patterns
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Kirk and Fred discussing how new technology designs of buildings or electronics are usually over-designed in the first generation.
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