Standards and Regulations

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Kirk and Fred discussing the role and relationship of meeting standards and making a reliable product.
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Dealing with Failures that Destroy

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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of understanding the root cause of failures for products that are hard to retrieve from the field or have other reasons that make failure analysis almost impossible.
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Maintenance FMEAs

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Carl and Fred discussing the application of FMEAs in support of asset maintenance.
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What Price Reliability?

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Carl and Fred discussing the reliability of the Texas electric grid debacle, and what can be learned from a reliability point of view. Lessons learned from this problem can be applied to other industries.
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How to Become a Reliability Engineering Consultant

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Chris and Fred discuss how to become a reliability engineering consultant. This is a very natural question for a lot of us. It might be easy to visualize what you want to achieve. But it can be daunting to get there.
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How Reliable Does My System Need to Be?

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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about setting a reliability goal. We got asked by someone who was responsible for a ‘complex’ system …

How reliable does our system need to be?

Unfortunately … you need to tell us that! Hopefully this webinar will help you start asking the right question to work it out for yourself.
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Ready to Teach Reliability

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Philip and Fred discussing the general need to be able to teach reliability all the time.
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How Much Do You Need to Know About Reliability?

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Philip and Fred discussing the journey of learning reliability engineering.
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Electrical Power Reliability in Texas

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Kirk and Fred discussing the failures of the electrical grid due to a extreme cold and snow in Texas that was a very rare weather condition in February 2021.
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ALT Samples and HALT Limits

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Kirk and Fred discussing two questions from a listener on HALT and ALT.
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Backward Blueprinting to Drive Building a Plan

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Philip and Fred discussing the idea of getting clear around what you want to have when working on reliability within a product, system, or program.
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The Need for Proper Reliability Plan

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Philip and Fred discussing the difference between a reliability plan and reliability testing.
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Assessing Reliability Courses

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Chris and Fred discuss what you need to think about when selecting your next reliability engineering course. What course do you need to do to become a better engineer (and more valuable to your organization)?
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Statistics and Reliability

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Chris and Fred discuss what came first … reliability or statistics? Reliability of course! There are plenty of organizations that focus on baking reliability into designs without the need for statistics. But statistics are a part of reliability engineering. So what is the relationship between the two? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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What to Do to Avoid Outdated Methods

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This is part two of a discussion Kirk and Fred have over a recent ASQ newsletter with CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) test sample questions at the end.
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