Carl and Fred continue discussing the listener question about building an effective reliability program. After discussing some of the finer points about creating the reliability plan, the podcast focuses on execution of the reliability plan.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss some of the finer points about building a good reliability program. In this case, the company already has a reasonably solid testing program, but needs to put more effort into reliability in design.

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Carl and Fred discuss a voice message received on the Accendo Reliability “speak pipe.” The caller is trying to build a reliability program at his company. The company already has a good testing program, but needs to supplement with support for reliability in design.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss how to build a reliability program, building on a good testing program that is in place. Where do you start?

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Chris and Fred discuss how we get started with vibration testing. We are often told (or feel like) we need to conduct vibration testing on new products and components. But what does that mean? Where do we start?

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how you start going about vibration testing … and when you should use it. And what you should use. Where do we start?

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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called the MTBF … and how it (perhaps!) can be used in some reliability engineering applications … sometimes!

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss if (and how) the MTBF can be useful for reliability applications. But haven’t we been really, really, really adamant that it is a bad thing? And to be clear … the MTBF stands for Mean Time Between Failure. Wouldn’t we want to measure the MTBF to see if things are failing less often?

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Carl and Fred discuss a listener question about what type of field or test issues to count when assessing or estimating reliability in a project.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss how to collect and maintain field and test data when calculating or estimating reliability.

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Carl and Fred discuss  an Inside FMEA reader question: “does a facilitator have to have a deep understanding of the subject matter they are facilitating?”

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the level of knowledge a facilitator must have about there subject being facilitated, in order to be successful.

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To read the “FMEA Facilitation Series” use this link: https://accendoreliability.com/inside-fmea-index-articles/

and cursor down the the facilitation series of articles.

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Dianna and Fred discuss influence vs. facilitation and the difficulty of trying to do both at once.

Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss influence vs. facilitation, comparing the roles of when you are a contributor vs. facilitating with peers.

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Reliability engineers and quality engineers often find themselves needing to facilitate a meeting. Root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and other scenarios require teamwork. A challenge can be playing the facilitator role while you also want to be a contributor. These roles can be at odds with one another. Facilitators guard the process and ensure everyone is heard. Contributors have ideas and opinions to share with the team that help define the solution.

When you must facilitate, there are ways to shift from one role to another. Fred and Dianna talk about several ways to make the shift.

Facilitating itself is difficult and requires skill. Some suggestions they have:

One of the biggest takeaways: make it visible to everyone. Quality tools are examples of models and templates that that work.

Whether you facilitate in-person or are using remote tools, be sure you understand how to use the tools. Don’t let your misunderstanding about how to use tools create disruptive pauses in the process.

In conclusion, be cautious about the roles you play, and make it clear to the team which role you’re playing when. And you can enhance your career if you practice your facilitator skills.

Do you have any success stories to share?

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Dianna and Fred introduce a special guest, ‘G’, and talk about the 8 Disciplines method of problem solving.

Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss 8D with ‘G’, Google’s AI assistant.

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Fred and Dianna discuss problem solving, in general, and the benefits of a structured approach like 8D.

They invite a special guest to the show to provide a different perspective. G is an advanced language model developed by Google AI. Capable of understanding and responding to a wide range of prompts and questions, G offers a unique and informative conversational experience.

The three hosts talk about:

Fred and Dianna also talk about ways to use interactive AI, like G.

Please let us know what you thought of this episode. Share your questions and comments, below!

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Chris and Fred discuss how reliability and quality is destroyed by organizations that like to have a ‘razor’ split between design and manufacturing teams. Why?

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss when organizations see design and manufacturing functions as distinct, separate, never to talk to each other, and completely unaware of the other (this is a bad thing by the way …)

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Chris and Fred discuss how we can go about calculating equipment reliability … when you only have a small amount of information. Help!

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how you can calculate equipment reliability when you have a little bit of information. This comes from a listener who asked us to calculate the reliability of their equipment that failed four times in one month (with 400 hours of operation).  How do we find this system’s reliability?

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