ALT Sample Size
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss how many samples you need to conduct Accelerated Life Testing or ALT … and a little bit about what ALT is.
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SOR 851 ALT Sample Size
SOR 850 Sedentary Inertia in Quality
Sedentary Inertia in Quality
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Chris and Dianna discuss the ‘sedentary inertia’ that many companies experience when they need to change … but can’t (don’t want to). Especially in the world of quality!
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Where does the Bell Curve come from?
Where does the Bell Curve come from?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Everyone has heard of the ‘bell curve.’ Sports show hosts, teachers, scientists, and a bunch of other people routinely use the term ‘bell curve’ to describe uncertainty. But do you know where it comes from? It is not just a ‘pretty shape’ that seems to work, It comes from a really cool physical phenomena that we find everywhere. So, the ‘bell curve’ naturally aligns with how our primitive human brain often tries to characterize or visualize uncertainty. The other really cool thing about the bell curve (and lots of other curves that look like bells) is that if we find it in our reliability data, it automatically tells us where to look in order to improve reliability. If you want a basic introduction to one of the most common statistical concepts with NO EQUATIONS … this is the webinar for you!
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SOR 846 Stuck in Your Job
Stuck in Your Job
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Chris and Fred discuss what you can do to feel good about your job … including when you know it is time to move on.
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SOR 845 RAMS Warts and All
RAMS Warts and All
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Chris and Fred discuss how it felt like the 2023 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) went? Was it a success? Is it going downhill?
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SOR 840 Regulators and Risk
Regulators and Risk
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Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem or regulation. If the regulators are not the adults in the room, then we have a problem.
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What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?
What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Some of you have heard of HALT (and I don’t mean someone asking you to stop). HALT is a very powerful form of testing that really helps us improve the robustness and reliability of new products. So what is HALT? HALT is a targeted test strategy to stress your amazing new product to (and beyond) its limits. Which means HALT will break your product (or prototype). Over and over again. Some people ask ‘so what … of course it was going to break when you pushed it that hard?’ But there is a method to this madness. And many organizations have used HALT to create amazing new products that are robust and reliable very quickly (with competitors struggling to understand why). Want to learn more? See you at this webinar!
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SOR 839 First Steps with Data
First Steps with Data
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Chris and Fred discuss what is the first thing with you do when someone gives you lots of information. What do you do?
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Complex Processes Become your Product (not your Actual Product).
I was recently asked by a product design engineer why their organization struggles with reliability even though they have a very ‘robust’ design process that seemingly has lots of different ‘good’ reliability engineering activities embedded in it. And when I say ‘good’ reliability engineering activities, I mean activities that have (in the past) shown to have a really good impact on reliability.
When I looked at some of this engineer’s processes as summarized by a ‘process flow chart,’ the reason his organization struggled with making reliable products was quite obvious.
The process was so complex that it became the ‘product.’
SOR 832 What is Your Approach
What is Your Approach
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss your approach for estimating the reliability of a new product, with new technology, manufactured in a new facility? … wow!
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SOR 831 Setting up an ORT
Setting up an ORT
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss what it means to establish an Ongoing Reliability Test (ORT) … or is it an accelerated test? … or the MTTF?
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What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT?
What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Sounds simple … right? We simply test faster! Great! But what does this get us? Many organizations are faced with a dilemma when it comes to testing to MEASURE reliability. If we test an amazing new product in ‘at use’ conditions, it might take many years before it will fail. This is time we simply don’t have when it comes to product development. So, how do we test faster? One of the more obvious answers is to increase the stress. Turn the temperature up. Increase the vibration. Use more voltage. But how do we get this right? How can we know that (for example) one week of accelerated testing is equivalent to 10 years of actual use? This webinar will help introduce you to the idea of Accelerated Life Testing, or ALT, to help you and your organization make reliability testing a reality.
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SOR 828 New School Leadership
New School Leadership
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss the changing ideas of leadership … and how people lament newer generations and their approaches to (and expectations of) leadership. There are challenges … so what does this mean?
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SOR 827 60th Percentile with Vendor Data
60th Percentile with Vendor Data
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What does this title mean? Chris and Fred discuss how some vendors make ‘startling’ claims regarding reliability from some small amounts of test data. So where does this 60th percentile some of us hear from time to time come from?
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SOR 818 Improving or Suing
Improving or Suing
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Chris and Fred discuss whether you want to lay blame (i.e. sue) or improve reliability? Don’t be confused … accountability is important. But that doesn’t replace everyone ‘owning’ the end result.
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