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Kirk and Fred discussing his purchase of a new car and the manufacturers environmental condition as declared in the owners manual.
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Kirk and Fred discussing ways to find intermittent system failures.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a real case of product failure for a OEM sub-supplier and determining how to isolate the cause
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Kirk and Fred discussing the value of getting field failures returned for failure analysis and best practices in determining the causes.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relationship between quality and reliability. Quality can lead to a functional failure but sometimes is cosmetic or feel of a product.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of keeping the failure data and details of past failures of products in order to make more reliable products.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the problem of getting failure data from predecessor products for many companies. Without detailed useful and verified failure data, it is difficult to improve reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relation of costs versus how much reliability is needed for the design and production of electronics systems
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of quantifying the amount of life there is in solid state electronics with no moving parts.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the long, ever-impending death of the outdated reliability prediction handbook and its progeny.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the notion that being curious about failures is a key element of being a reliability engineer.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulties in sorting out a root cause when it requires a unique sequence of events.
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Kirk and Ryan Wanger discussing reliability in pinball machines and the challenge of keeping his many pinball machines operational in the field.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the continued use of prediction models in reliability engineering, such as MIL-HDBK 217F or any other models based on the 217 which is last revised in 1995.
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