Tech Obsolescence

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Kirk and Fred discuss long-term reliability and the speed of technological obsolescence.
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Confirmation Bias with HALT

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Kirk and Fred discuss the problem or benefits of having confirmation bias, where we accept or reject test results based on expectations.
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The 1,000th Episode

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Kirk and Fred and a long-time listener, Nik Sharpe, discuss the long history of doing this podcast from the first Speaking of Reliability podcast SOR #1, “Can you pass HALT?” recorded June 20th, 2015, to this 1000th episode.
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Impact of IoT on Maintenance

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Kirk and Fred discuss the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on maintenance and the data feedback to the manufacturer on usage and failure data.
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No Trouble Found Issue

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Kirk and Fred delve into the crucial topic of managing returned parts and products, even those that are functioning perfectly.
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New Position Advice

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Kirk and Fred discuss the advice we would give a engineer just starting a career in Reliability Engineering
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Reliability Allocation Methods

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Kirk and Fred discuss reliability allocations for individual components and subsystems.
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Finding Failures and Firefighting

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Kirk and Fred discuss new product market release schedule pressures, and then after customers start finding reliability issues, the actual firefighting begins. Many times, those who quickly can fix the causes of failures, the firefighters, get many more accolades than those who find and mitigate product weaknesses that become failures during the design and development phase.

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Proving HALT Works

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Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of showing those new to limit discovery using HALT and proving does find relevant future field issues that either already have occurred in a new released product, or in a product under development.
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Learning From Those Closest

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Kirk and Fred discuss the fact that many times those on the assembly and production lines are the ones that have the most information for assembly issues and causes of failures, yet the information they have is not heard by the engineers and management that could improve it.
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Getting Failure Feedback

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Kirk and Fred discuss the many required tests before market release and post market ongoing reliability testing and why testing is so necessary.
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When to Consider Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discuss at what point in the product development process should we consider applying reliability engineering to the concept and actual prototypes.
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Predicting the Unknowns

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Kirk and Fred discuss the world of reliability predictions and the issue of predictions when many, if not most of the causes of unreliability, are surprises.
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Bad History Challenge

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Kirk and Fred discuss how to deal with those who have said that they tried using the HALT methodology with a past project but did not find any benefit from it.
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