DFR and Maintenance Input
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James and Fred discussing getting maintenance input into the design process.
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SOR 477 DFR and Maintenance Input
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SOR 476 Motivation and Learning
Motivation and Learning
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James and Fred discussing the range of motivation for professional education.
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SOR 475 Cat vs Dog Reliability
Cat vs Dog Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the question of which common pet has more reliable behavior and how this relates to quality versus reliability
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SOR 474 Preventing a Public Reliability Problem
Preventing a Public Reliability Problem
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to prevent a field problem from becoming a widely disseminated through the media
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SOR 473 Reliability and Sample Size
Reliability and Sample Size
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Adam and Fred discussing the difficulties of selecting the correct sample size for reliability demonstration testing.
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SOR 472 The Intent of Reliability Testing
The Intent of Reliability Testing
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Adam and Fred discussing why the “why?” of testing is so important.
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SOR 471 Questions to Ask about Data Analysis
Questions to Ask about Data Analysis
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Chris and Fred discuss data analysis … specifically the first question we ask before we help someone with their data analysis project. Chris always asks – what is the decision that this data analysis will support? And Fred always asks – where did this data come from? The reason these questions are important is that you need to know what information you need before you construct an analysis to get that information. And you need to be confident in the results. A single data set can potentially create multiple information sets. And this depends on how you construct the analysis. Which based on the decision. Listen to this podcast if you would like to learn more.
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SOR 470 Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge
Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability leadership. What is reliability leadership? Writing a book? Putting together a few slides? The first thing to know is that there is a difference between a reliability manager and a reliability leader. A reliability manager will tend to oversee practices and processes that others have identified or put together. Reliability leaders come up with the rationale, the motivation, the linking with business outcomes and everything else that creates or sustains organizational change. You can have the ‘best’ reliability engineers – but without reliability leadership, you won’t make reliable products. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast.
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SOR 469 Should You Design for Corner Cases
Should You Design for Corner Cases
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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to design for the anticipated extreme corner case of environmental stresses that some percentage of the product may see in use.
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SOR 468 When Are You Done Investing in Reliability
When Are You Done Investing in Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing testing and monitoring the development of reliability and sustaining reliability and when to stop product improvement using HALT methods.
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SOR 467 Asset Management and Data Analysis
Asset Management and Data Analysis
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James and Fred discussing the use of data analysis with asset management.
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SOR 466 Reliability Organization Self Awareness
Reliability Organization Self Awareness
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Adam and Fred discussing how an organizations self awareness can have a big impact on how they operate
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SOR 465 Analysis vs Test for Reliability Work
Analysis vs Test for Reliability Work
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Adam and Fred discussing when a program should use analysis for reliability measurement and improvement vs testing.
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SOR 464 The Gist of Reliability
The Gist of Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss the ‘gist’ of reliability. Fred was recently asked to be part of a panel to a number ‘hardware startups’ and was asked … what is the ‘gist’ of reliability? We try and answer that question as simply as possible in this podcast. The thing is … reliability will happen. Ignoring it doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Reliability is an outcome of your decisions and the design choices you make. The harder you work on it, the closer reliability will be to what you expect. So do you want to learn what the ‘gist’ of reliability is? Well, listen to this podcast.
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SOR 463 What is an Outlier?
What is an Outlier?
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Chris and Fred discuss the concept of an ‘outlier.’ Depending on the definition, an outlier is something that is different, non-representative or somehow separate from the ‘main body’ of something. We often use the term ‘outlier’ when it comes to statistical analysis of something – specifically when we see something that is beyond what we expect to see. So what do we do with ‘outliers’ … particularly when it comes to reliability analysis? It may be tempting to exclude them (particularly if it makes the outcome of your analysis ‘better’!). We have not seen the exclusion of ‘outliers’ have a happy ending when it comes to reliability. Would you like to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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