SOR 093 What Does a Procurement Engineer Really Do?

What Does a Procurement Engineer Really Do?

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Tim and Fred discuss the role of procurement engineers and the supply chain management team generally in helping to ensure a good match between what product designers need and what suppliers can provide.

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SOR 092 How to Prevent NDF Returns

How to Prevent NDF Returns

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Kirk and Fred discuss what we can do during product development before shipping a product that will help reduce warranty returns that seem to have no identifiable failure mode.

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SOR 091 How to Address NDF Issues

How to Address NDF Issues

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Kirk and Fred discuss how using environmental stress can help discover marginal operation failures and intermittent connections that are not detectable during bench testing and troubleshooting at ambient conditions.

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SOR 090 Not Sure Why Customer Says it Failed

Not Sure Why Your Customer Says it Failed

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Kirk and Fred discuss the problem of products being returned because the customer claims it failed and yet when tested to verify or identify the failure mode, it seems to be working as it should.

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SOR 089 Define Availability Uptime and Reliability to Get Them Right

Define Availability Uptime and Reliability to Get Them Right

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Adam and Fred discuss how important getting the definitions right to support decision making.

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SOR 088 What Triggers a Focus on Reliability

What Triggers a Focus on Reliability?

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Adam and Fred discuss the circumstances that encourage an organization to pay attention to reliability.

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by Tim Rodgers 3 Comments

DTK Pantelis Vassiliou Business Leader

Pantelis Vassiliou, Business Leader, Vassiliou Ventures

Fred Schenkelberg interviews Pantelis about his career and future.
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How to Build Your Influence as a Reliability Engineer

Good with data or failure analysis are elements of a great reliability engineer.

Another is the ability to influence. The perfect analysis and dynamic slide deck are not sufficient. You also must master the ability to persuade, to influence.

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SOR 087 Confusion between repairable and non-repairable data analysis

Confusion between repairable and non-repairable data analysis

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Andre and Fred discuss the basic approaches for proper data analysis depending on the data source.
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SOR 086 Is DFX serial or parallel?

Is DFX serial or parallel?

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Adam and Fred discuss the application of DFx methodology in the product development process.
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SOR 085 The Early Design Process and Reliability

The Early Design Process and Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss the early design process and the reliability approach that can best integrate reliability objectives with the design team.
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SOR 084 The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part II

The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part II

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Carl and Fred discuss to discuss the most common mistakes made by FMEA practitioners and how they can be avoided.
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SOR 083 The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part I

The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part I

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Carl and Fred discuss some of the most common mistakes made by FMEA practitioners and how they can be avoided. In this episode, 4 of the most common mistakes are discussed.
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