Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead Abstract Adam and Fred discussing a whirlwind trip Adam just completed including Miami, Orlando, Cleveland, Chicago, Fairbanks Alaska, and Costa Rica Key Points Join Adam and Fred as they discuss a whirlwind trip Adam just completed including Miami, Orlando, Cleveland, Chicago, Fairbanks Alaska, and Costa Rica Topics include: Finding things to [...]

Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress? Abstract Kirk and Fred discussing manufacturing thermal specifications of components and how HALT is used to find margins beyond specifications. Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss manufacturers specifications and use conditions, and what constitutes normal use and abuse when in comes to common electronics. Topics [...]

Variability of Weather Data Abstract Kirk and Fred discussing the differences in weather conditions in their home locations and how variable extremes in environmental conditions and impacts to equipment design and its reliability. Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss environmental specifications and actual environmental conditions. Topics include: Recent article on why Wind [...]

What’s Wrong with MTBF Abstract Carl and Fred discussing the pitfalls of using Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) as a metric for identifying reliability requirements. Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss some of the primary issues with MTBF as a reliability metric Topics include: What is MTBF? Why is MTBF used? Question [...]

Pitfalls of Reliability Allocation Abstract Carl and Fred discussing the subject of reliability allocation, how it is used and some of the pitfalls in application. Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss what works and what does not work when allocating reliability from system to lower levels. Topics include: Don’t assume every component [...]

How to Balance Features and Reliability Abstract Kirk and Fred discussing decisions made regarding the costs, features and reliability when make a purchase of home appliances and other consumer products. Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the challenge of adding and selling new features on a product that has many customers happy [...]

How to Build An Understanding of HALT Abstract Kirk and Fred discussing good, better and best ways to introduce and motivate a company to use weakness discovery test methodology. Key Points Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the approach to reliability development using HALT methodology. Topics include: The advantage of one of Kirk’s first [...]

Hard Line or Soft Touch When Building a Reliability Program Abstract Carl and Fred discuss the approach to building quality and reliability programs. Is it better to implement a disciplined approach or a more collaborative approach? Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the impact of company cultures when implementing changes to reliability [...]

Reliance on Devices Abstract Carl and Fred discussing how dependent we all have become on a multitude of devices to do our daily work, and the ramifications on our daily lives. Key Points Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the role of standards in managing the interfaces between devices. We are becoming more and [...]

Paths to Learning Reliability Abstract Chris and Fred discuss about how to learn to be a reliability engineer. And ‘learn’ means different things. It could be experiential learning. It could be academic learning. It could be instructional or ‘mentorship’ learning. And you tend to be a particular type of a reliability engineer based on how [...]