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Kirk and Fred discussing a basic question Fred asks in the Reliability Management Class and with new clients, that is “what are you trying to accomplish” with your reliability program,
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Carl and Fred discussing how much of what we do as reliability professionals falls into the role of consultants. Learning how to be better consultants will enhance the results of our day-to-day work.
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Carl and Fred discussing the process of knowledge transfer from one person to others. This process is at the core of influencing others to achieve reliability objectives.
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance of management and leadership. They cover the similarities and differences between the two.
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance and challenges of networking.
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Dianna and Fred discussing design reviews and independent reviewers.
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Dianna and Fred discussing how to get next steps when being presented a problem by quality assurance.
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Chris and Fred discuss the seemingly never resolved question on ‘who’ is responsible for making something reliable? Is it the supplier? The designers? The manufacturers? Aliens?
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Chris and Fred discuss what this term ‘confidence’ means … especially when it comes to statistics (and reliability)
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Greg and Fred discussing risk management training for all employees.
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Greg and Fred discussing risk based, decision making for reliability and quality engineers.
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about how which failures to count in demonstration testing. Specifically, what about maintenance induced failures, supply chain failures and other types of failures, not typically part of the product design.
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Carl and Fred discussing the need to be fast in smaller or startup companies. Reliability engineering can adapt to a fast culture and support lean product development, without compromising essential tasks.
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Chris and Fred discuss ‘regression metrics’ … or numbers that software packages spit out at us to suggest if a statistical model is ‘good’ or not. But if this is the only thing you (as an engineer) rely on to understand your system … you are already in trouble!
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