How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
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Kirk and Fred discussing Reliability Specifications and how companies set reliability requirements in new products
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SOR 416 How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
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SOR 415 Making Reliability Training Effective
Making Reliability Training Effective
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Kirk and Fred discussing reliability training and the best way to have new reliability development techniques.
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SOR 414 How Not to do FDSC
How Not to do FDSC
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Chris and Adam discuss FDSC. This may only mean something to you if you have experience in ‘military’ equipment. It stands for Failure Definition and Scoring Criteria. And it is used to remove subjectivity in classifying what sort of failure it is. Unless the military customer decides to change these during development. And this causes issues for all. If you want to hear more about what happens when you ‘shift the goal posts’ during development, then listen to this podcast!
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SOR 413 Characteristics of an Organization That Limits Reliability
Characteristics of an Organization That Limits Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘tell’s an organization that sucks at reliability has. That is, can you just tell an organization makes terrible products before you even get to their reliability department/guidebook/strategy/laboratory? And if you can, what are they? Our experience shows that when we are brought in to solve a ‘reliability’ problem, we need to address a vision/leadership/resourcing/(insert poor business practice here) issue. If this interests you … please listen to this podcast!
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SOR 412 Are Regulators Good For Reliability
Are Regulators Good For Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss the role regulators play in many industries. Are we better off because of them? In many cases … yes. But perhaps regulators are also getting in the way of us doing things better. And at what point does their ‘net harm’ exceed their ‘net good’? Can regulators do a better job, and perhaps create an alternative to archaic checklists and compliance audits? We think yes. If this topic interests you, listen to this podcast!
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SOR 411 Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s purchase of a new laptop and his expectations of reliability.
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SOR 410 How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
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Kirk and Fred discussing recent aircraft failures and how suppliers sort through all the reported data on failures and complaints from the field.
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SOR 409 Are Customers Always Right?
Are Customers Always Right?
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Adam and Fred discussing the way customers use products is not inline with how they were designed.
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SOR 408 I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
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Adam and Fred discussing a whirlwind trip Adam just completed including Miami, Orlando, Cleveland, Chicago, Fairbanks Alaska, and Costa Rica
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SOR 407 Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress?
Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress?
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Kirk and Fred discussing manufacturing thermal specifications of components and how HALT is used to find margins beyond specifications.
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SOR 406 Variability of Weather Data
Variability of Weather Data
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Kirk and Fred discussing the differences in weather conditions in their home locations and how variable extremes in environmental conditions and impacts to equipment design and its reliability.
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SOR 405 What’s Wrong with MTBF
What’s Wrong with MTBF
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Carl and Fred discussing the pitfalls of using Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) as a metric for identifying reliability requirements.
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SOR 404 Pitfalls of Reliability Allocation
Pitfalls of Reliability Allocation
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of reliability allocation, how it is used and some of the pitfalls in application.
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SOR 403 How to Balance Features and Reliability
How to Balance Features and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing decisions made regarding the costs, features and reliability when make a purchase of home appliances and other consumer products.
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SOR 402 How to Build An Understanding of HALT
How to Build An Understanding of HALT
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Kirk and Fred discussing good, better and best ways to introduce and motivate a company to use weakness discovery test methodology.
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