Tech Obsolescence
Abstract
Kirk and Fred discuss long-term reliability and the speed of technological obsolescence.
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SOR 1005 Tech Obsolescence
Speaking of Reliability
Let us address your reliability engineering questions. Gain the experience of your peers and accelerate the improvement of your program and career.
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SOR 1004 Confirmation Bias with HALT
Confirmation Bias with HALT
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Kirk and Fred discuss the problem or benefits of having confirmation bias, where we accept or reject test results based on expectations.
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SOR 1003 Risks of Persistence
Risk of Persistence
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Greg and Fred discuss the risks of persisting in a project or in life when you know there are risks. In poker terms, “do you hold em’ or fold em’? What do companies do when they’ve sunk a lot of costs and know the ROI of their project is vaporizing? What do you do when you know you’re losing. Fight on. Or, walk away. The risks of persistence is what we face all the time.
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SOR 1002 Decline of Quality
Decline of Quality
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Greg and Fred discuss the future of quality and reliability professions. The average age of the quality professional is getting older. Fewer people are entering the profession. So, where is the profession going?
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SOR 1001 Practice Data Sets
Practice Data Sets
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Chris and Fred discuss the ability to get ‘data sets’ to practice reliability analysis on! … sounds like a party …
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SOR 1000 The 1,000th Episode
The 1,000th Episode
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Kirk and Fred and a long-time listener, Nik Sharpe, discuss the long history of doing this podcast from the first Speaking of Reliability podcast SOR #1, “Can you pass HALT?” recorded June 20th, 2015, to this 1000th episode.
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SOR 999 Product Life Time
Product Life Time
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Chris and Fred discuss how long stuff lasts! … or how long something should last! … how do you ‘know’ what it should be?
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SOR 998 Reliability and Politics
Reliability and Politics
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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability can sometimes be linked to politics (… at least in some way). Is this an experience you share?
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SOR 997 Preparing to Interview
Preparing to Interview
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Chris and Fred discuss how to make a good impression when interviewing for a reliability engineering position. How do you prepare?
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SOR 996 FMEA and HAZOP
FMEA and Hazard Analysis
Abstract
Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about FMEA and Hazard Analysis and whether or not they can be combined into a single analysis.
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SOR 995 Hidden Reliability
Hidden Reliability
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Carl and Fred discuss the challenges of hidden reliability problems, especially issues that are certain to occur, but not easily observed. When failures are invisible or hidden, they can be missed or ignored.
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SOR 994 Introducing Risk Management Plan
Introducing Risk Management Plan
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Greg and Fred discuss why risk is becoming a personal issue to home owners and to all of us. They discuss aging infrastructure risk, who pays, and how to mitigate these risks.
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SOR 993 What Happened to Quality?
What Happened to Quality?
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Greg and Fred discuss quality from engineering and quality points of view. Greg is developing AI engineering applications. Greg wants to build, ship, and monetize. Fred wants to build quality in. What do you think is the right way?
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SOR 992 Past Good and Bad Knowledge
Past Good and Bad Knowledge
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Chris and Fred discuss the so-called ‘bedrock documents and statistics’ that are used over and over again as if they are universally correct – even though they might have nothing to do with ‘your’ machines or systems. WHY?
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SOR 991 What is MLE?
What is MLE?
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Chris and Fred discuss the three-letter acronym ‘MLE’ stands for? Well, it stands for ‘maximum likelihood estimate.’ Ever heard of it? Do you know what it means?
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