Chris and Fred discuss what it means to have confidence in something. Confidence can mean all things to all people. How confident are you as a person? How confident are you in someone else? What confidence do you have in a conclusion? Statisticians and reliability engineers need to talk to each other where the term confidence has a clearly defined and fixed meaning. But does it? How confident are you in the results of a test? How confident are you in a test that has 75 data points versus one that has 70? How confident will your boss be in you when you present the outcomes of these tests? Have these tests shaken YOUR confidence? Best you listen to this podcast.

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss how we have confidence in our conclusions resulting from data analysis or any other investigation. We often use the term confidence intervals to describe the outcomes of an analysis. But it is more than that.

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Carl and Fred discussing whether there is such a concept as “minimum viable reliability”?

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss what is the minimum acceptable reliability for a product.

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Carl and Fred discussing the differences and similarities between safety and reliability, and how to address them in reliability programs.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the bodies of knowledge that relate to safety, quality and reliability.

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Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss how levels of criticality of different cases of failure help determine the level of failure analysis, effort and cost to fix it.

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Here is a link to Kirk’s book co-authored with John J. Paschkewitz available from Amazon “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems”

Here is the link to the US ARMY/CALCE PAPER presented at the 2013 RAMS conference event mentioned in this podcast– “Reliability Prediction – A Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach” . This is a government document that is in the public domain and should be distributed a read by any engineer that believes failure prediction methodology is useful or beneficial during product development.

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Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss testing and dealing with the information derived from HALT and consider them a false reason to improve product robustness.

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.

Here is a link to Kirk’s book co-authored with John J. Paschkewitz available from Amazon “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems”

Here is the link to the US ARMY/CALCE PAPER presented at the 2013 RAMS conference event mentioned in this podcast– “Reliability Prediction – A Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach” . This is a government document that is in the public domain and should be distributed a read by any engineer that believes failure prediction methodology is useful or beneficial during product development.

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Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss

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Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers. Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss the advanced interrelations between making craft bread, pickle fermentation and applied Physics based guessing applied to Reliability & Maintenance practical topics.

Fred and Phil muse and poke some fun at real issues that include:

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The show discussed the hazards of being a Reliability Software Keyboard Jockey and relates Fred’s bread making expertise with Philip’s pickle disasters to suggest there are some parallel’s in modern Reliability and Maintenance work. What should you do with a pile of data, and how not to go about the process of getting a correct answer. Phil and Fred touch on the bear traps associated with parameterized regression, impossible results, practical sniff testing, forward asset replacement projections, RAMS implications and the never ending need for continuous learning in the Reliability and Maintenance profession.

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Philip and Fred discussing How to get started in Reliability, Building your Network of Advisors, Using Mentoring to uncover Gold, Thirst and passion for getting better, teamwork and making the inevitable mistake.

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss how to get started in the Reliability role s available today.

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Philip and Fred discuss a myriad of topics relevant to getting started and succeeding in the Reliability profession. As reliability professionals we get to work on everything from the smallest micro circuit to the largest of machines ever built. This show discusses how we got our start into the field of reliability back when it wasn’t a defined field of specialization. Salient points are made for the next generation of Reliability professions that include continual learning, the need to have a great mentor who helps guide your development and having a thirst or passion for getting better everyday. Fred and Phil speak to the technology trap, the need for effective communications, the value of technical soundness and the need to appraoch reliability as a people process.

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Carl and Fred discussing what it takes to be an expert reliability engineer, from a technical point of view.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the technical levels of expertise associated with reliability engineering, including expertise in one or two technical subjects, and knowing enough about the broad set of tools to know when to seek out an expert.

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https://www.sae.org/standards/content/tahb0009a/

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Carl and Fred discussing the most important people skills that are needed to succeed as an expert in a reliability engineering career.

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the broad subject of people skills, and how to influence engineering organizations in the best possible way.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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