What Happens During a HALT Session?
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Kirk and Fred discuss a few of the essential steps as you turn on the HALT stresses.
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SOR 020 What Happens During a HALT Session?
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SOR 019 What do you need to do before a HALT session?
What Do You Need to Do Before a HALT Session?
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Kirk and Fred discuss a few of the essential steps before you turn on the HALT stresses.
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SOR 018 How to Build a Valuable Relationship with Your Supplier
Why Should the Supplier Care About Your Reliability?
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Tim and Fred discuss how to forge a mutually beneficial and trusting supplier relationships to improve reliability.
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SOR 017 Examples of Great Supplier Relationships
What Characterizes a Great Supplier Relationship?
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Tim and Fred discuss the hallmarks of great supplier relationships that work.
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SOR 016 Breaking the “Profit in Repair” Dilemma
Breaking the “Profit in Repair” Dilemma
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Tim and Fred discuss the need to partner with suppliers and how to avoid the “vendor’s profit is in repairs” trap.
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SOR 015 Dealing with the Drive to the Lowest Cost Supplier
The Danger of Choosing the Lowest Cost Supplier
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Tim and Fred discuss the common behavior of only focusing on purchase price when working with suppliers.
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SOR 014 Importance of Clear Communication Across the Supply Chain
Open Communication With the Supplier to Ensure Reliability
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Tim and Fred discuss just how important clear communication is across the supply chain and how it improves product reliability.
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SOR 013 The Design and the Supplier’s Capability
Matching Supplier Capability to the Design
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Tim and Fred discuss the supplier’s role in achieving a reliable design and product.
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SOR 012 The Evolution of Reliability Practices and HALT
Evolution of Reliability Practices and HALT
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Kirk and Fred discuss the history and evolution of environmental stress testing practices leading to HALT.
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SOR 011 Approaching HALT on a Water Resistance Coating
Approaching HALT on a Water Resistance Coating
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Kirk and Fred discuss how to approach developing a HALT for a discrete component that a vendor claims is more reliable.
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SOR 010 Should We Design for HALT
Should We Design for HALT?
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Kirk and Fred discuss the notion of designing for HALT and why that isn’t a good idea.
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SOR 009 Building Consistent Behavior Focused on Reliability
Building Consistent Behavior Focused on Reliability
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Adam and Fred discuss steps you can take to create consistent behavior focused on reliability.
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SOR 008 Recognizing Inconsistent Reliability Priorities
Recognizing Inconsistent Reliability Priorities
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Adam and Fred discuss recognizing and dealing with inconsistent behaviors concerning reliability performance.
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SOR 007 Where is the Break in Reliability Ownership?
Where is the Break in Reliability Ownership?
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Adam and Fred discuss the various priorities and break down of reliability focus across an organization.
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SOR 006 How to Get Started as a new Reliability Engineer
How to Get Started as a new Reliability Engineer
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Companies have high expectations for safety and reliability.
New reliability engineers face significant challenges when trying to meet these challenges. It is important to be guided by the right philosophy and approach and to ask the right questions.
Fred and Carl discuss these topics in this podcast episode.
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