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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?

Join Greg and Fred as they discuss what’s happening to quality profession where many products are becoming more disposable and less sustainable.  Topics include:

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Chris and Fred discuss the ability to get ‘data sets’ to practice reliability analysis on! … sounds like a party …

Join Chris and Fred respond to a listener who wants ‘practice data’ to hone their data analysis skills! Awesome … but where is it?

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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.

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss with Nik how and why he found the Speaking of Reliability podcast around SOR podcast 540 in the year 2020 and what he has found beneficial from SOR.

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

Please click on this link to access a relatively new analysis of traditional reliability prediction methods article from the US ARMY and CALCE titled  “Reliability Prediction – Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”. It is in the public domain, so please distribute freely. Trying to predict reliability for development is a misleading a costly approach.

You can now purchase the most recent recording of Kirk Gray’s Hobbs Engineering 8 (two 4 hour sessions) hour Webinar “Rapid and Robust Reliability Development 2022 HALT & HASS Methodologies Online Seminar” from this link.

For more information on the newest discovery testing methodology here is a link to the book “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust design of Electronics and Systems” written by Kirk Gray and John Paschkewitz.

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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?

Join Chris and Fred as they respond to a question from one of our listeners about how long something should last. Specifically, our listener proposed that the lifetime of a product should be based on a product failure probability that is ‘accepted by the industry at large.’ But should it?

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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?

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss the role politics plays in reliability engineering and reliability endeavors. Because it is unfortunately prevalent …

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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?

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss what you can do to prepare for a (new?) career in reliability engineering. What can you do to prepare yourself to make a fantastic impression on your prospective employer?

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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about FMEA and Hazard Analysis and whether or not they can be combined into a single analysis.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the difference between FMEA and Hazard Analysis.

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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.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the importance of making reliability issues visible. Topics include:

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

Deming quote from “Out of the Crisis”

“One gets a good rating for fighting a fire. The result is visible, can be quantified. If you do it right the first time, you are invisible. Mess it up and correct it later, you become a hero.”

Factor of Ten Rule

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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.

Join Greg and Fred as they discuss infrastructure risks of aging water, sewage, and power systems.  Topics include:

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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?

Join Greg and Fred as they discuss what’s happened to quality from critical perspectives.  Topics include:

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability as sparks fly. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

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