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Kirk and Fred discuss steps that should be followed when trying to find the location and cause of failures in electronics.
They use examples of from their own experiences with recent failures of appliances and personal computers and how using a systematic approach to investigating failures is the best way to discover the causes of failures.
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Tim Rodgers interviews Dan Deans, concerning Dan’s work as the Chair of the 62nd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium in 2016.
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Kirk and Fred discuss how to know when a failure occurs during a stress test to find operational and destruct limits.
In some cases, the failure and component causing the failure are very obvious when “the smoke comes out”.
In other cases, the product being tested has a performance degradation under increased stress that can be used as discriminators for ensuring reliability and quality during product development and manufacturing.
They also discuss how some fundamental technology limitations of common operational monitors, such as a display LCD, does not have to limit the stress to the more typically more capable circuit board assembly.
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Tim and Fred discuss a few of the typical responses from suppliers when confronted with field failures.
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Tim and Fred discuss some proven techniques for improving failure analysis and getting more engagement with your suppliers.
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Tim and Fred discuss the right way to hold a supplier accountable for system failures.
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Adam and Fred discuss the challenges of designing and ALT within the schedule of a product development program.
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Adam and Ken Haven, CEO of Acorn Product Development, discuss the differences between the creative design process in China vs. North America.
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Tim Rodgers interviews Cliff concerning his book, People: A Reliability Success Story*
Carl and Fred discuss the importance of people skills in achieving reliability objectives.
While technical skills and experience in the various reliability tools is essential, achieving reliability objectives requires working with engineering teams and influencing engineers in a positive manner.
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You have signed up to sit for the CRE exam.
You have the education and experience. Then you look at the CRE body of knowledge. The breath of statistics, the range of tools, the plethora of concepts.
You need to review the material. Where do you start?
Carl and Fred discuss the most common roadblocks to achieving high reliability in any company, and what the reliability practitioner can do to overcome each of the potential roadblocks.
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Adam and Fred discuss the importance of identifying the “change agents” in the organization and linking their message with the leadership.
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Tim Rodgers interviews Kirk Gray concerning his observations and advice concerning accelerated testing best practices.
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