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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.
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Carl and Fred discussing what it takes to be an expert reliability engineer, from a technical point of view.
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Kirk and Fred discussing doing failure analysis and the challenges
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Kirk and Fred discussing the new challenges in reliability engineering, which maybe the old challenges of moving away from the misleading approach of Failure Prediction Methodology (FPM) and for Fred its the continued use of MTBF as a metric for reliability.
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Chris and Fred discuss the typical decisions that are informed by reliability. It might be easier to list what decisions are not informed by reliability engineering. We came up with a list of 13 … and that is only because we ran out of time. What decisions you think are influenced by reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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Chris and Fred discuss different strategies for reliability. We start with a couple of strategies that don’t work (big shout out to virtually every military customer … ever!) and then come up with some approaches that have been shown to work – at least in some circumstances. And that is the key – different scenarios demand different strategies. Sound interesting? Then this is the podcast for you.
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Chris and Carl discuss reliability management.
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Carl and Fred discussing the proper role of standards in reliability programs: what makes for good standards, what makes for poor standards, and how to know the difference.
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Carl and Fred discussing the important role of models in reliability engineering programs.
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James and Fred discussing a question considering how to best qualify a new vendor for use in our plant.
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James and Fred discussing a recent question on the analysis necessary to switch to a condition-based strategy.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the classic bathtub curve used in reliability engineering to define the life cycle of electronics and systems.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting samples and the conclusions that can be drawn from testing and analyzing a low number of samples
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James and Fred discussing the notion of when we really need to check assumptions.
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