Andre and Adam discuss how reliability engineers grow in their careers and find sources for educational content. Andre shares how RAMS conference is different, how to teach reliability, and what has been his own journey. Andre Kleyner is a renowned author and editor for the Wiley series on Reliability & Quality. 

Neil Dotenbaugh from ESPEC shares real stories of how Time-to-market pressures teams to release the product without completing reliability tests and how HALT test results can inform the design team. We also discuss how to accelerate the parameters in accelerated testing and his latest conference paper: Doing HALT with fewer samples. 

In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Kishor Trivedi from Duke University shares how software is a major cause of failures in complex systems. Shares ideas on how to treat software as a wearing-out component, how to test for failures, identify improvement areas, and plan software maintenance. He also stresses the need for more research on software reliability failures. 

 Resource: Book "Handbook of Software Aging and Rejuvenation"

Felix Chen talks about how he got into the Reliability Engineering field and his current experience managing product failures. What metrics to use for reliability? How to best describe it to other stakeholders? How do metrics drive the program? He also highlights the importance of Statistics, and how it can be used to quantify the uncertainty in predicting Reliability. 

Lots of resources are available to learn Reliability Engineering, how do you choose the best Reliability program to train your team? In this episode, Chris Jackson breaks down the factors to consider when choosing to invest in training programs, insights on whom to train among Organizational teams, and spills the beans on his next educational project. 

ESG goals are the talk at board meetings these days. In this episode, Charles Bourland from L3 Harris shares how Reliability engineering can contribute to the organizational ESG goals. Recorded live from RAMS Conference, Charles shares how we got started in Reliability and how his latest exploration into the world of ESG has taught about the wide impacts of reliability tools. 

Charles can be reached at: Charles Bourland | LinkedIn

Cam Page takes some time from her exhibit at the RAMS conference to discuss HALT testing and how it has grown in multiple industries.

I was very fortunate to have Dr Wayne Nelson as a guest on Reliability Leader.  We both attended the RAMS conference in Orlando this year and he was gracious enough to discuss his upcoming new edition of his 2003 book "How to Analyze Recurring Events Data."

Setting out to build a new reliability department taught me a lot about the right way to integrate reliability into product development.  I almost learned the really hard way, but luckily corrected my path in time.

Rick Sprenkle and I discuss how different personality types handle unforeseen issues when they arise.