Chris and Fred discuss the idea of timing how long you spend talking about ‘reliability engineering.’ And by this, we mean conversation where you (1) proactively talking about preventing failures before they occur, and (2) in a way where something gets done about it (improving something)? Let’s say someone timed how much time your organization spent on this sort of conversation – would you be proud of the number you get?

Chris wants to create a ‘character’ or ‘person’ in some of his training courses. This character has a stopwatch that they start when someone talks about reliability engineering – where you proactively talk about preventing failures and then going and doing something about it. How much percentage of total talking time would this character work out you were spending on actually talking about reliability. And this spurred the following podcast.

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Chris and Fred talk about accelerated life testing or ALT. Well before we start, we need to work out what the decision we are informing is. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast.

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss accelerated life testing or ALT. ALT is like the name sounds – testing done in an accelerated timeline. What questions do you need to ask? Which questions do you need to answer?

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Kirk and Fred discussing how to test a new product without knowing the specific mechanisms that will be a possible weakness, and reliability issue in the field

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss accelerated testing of mechanical systems and accelerated testing

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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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Kirk and Fred discussing the planning of the user profiles and use conditions that engineers must make during the design process

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the estimating of life cycle stresses and unique stresses a product may be subjected to in its use.

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.

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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Carl and Fred discussing the broad set of skills that are needed to be an effective team leader.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the finer points of team leadership, including running meetings, leading reliability projects, and facilitating FMEAs.

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(from Chapter 10 of Effective FMEAs )

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Carl and Fred discussing interfaces and how they can be addressed in reliability programs.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss why interfaces are important and what happens if they are ignored.

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James and Fred discussing the benefits and some constraints of shifting your maintenance program to a proactive stance.

Join James and Fred as they discuss the ways getting ahead of potential failures creates value, i.e. profit, for your organization.

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Chris and Fred discuss how you can influence behavior. Good behavior. Like taking reliability seriously. It is not about what you say when you are forced to say it. It is about what you like saying and what you make your people do. So there are some things you can do to influence people in a good way. But it takes some effort on your behalf. Keen to learn more? Listen here!

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss the difference been influencing behavior you value versus saying you value behavior. What do we do (as leaders or members) that shape the culture of our organization? – especially when it comes to reliability.

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Chris and Fred discuss the organizations that culturally avoid engineering. Those organizations that for some reason, never ask for the data, the math, the tests, the thinking or anything else that might actually help you understand why your thing fails.

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss the organizations that culturally avoid engineering. Those organizations that for some reason, never ask for the data, the math, the tests, the thinking or anything else that might actually help you understand why your thing fails.

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Chris and Fred discuss when you should run qualification tests again. A qualification test can be anything – essentially all your product, system or service has to do is meet or exceed something to get a tick in the box. So if you make a minor change to your system – do you need to run all your qualification tests again? Can you get away with not doing any? Listen to this podcast to learn more!

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss when we have to do ‘qualifications’ again? And by again we mean after something has changed … which means we have reason to do perhaps question if our product, system or service is what it once was. If something has changed (even if it is minor) do we need to run all qualification tests again?

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