A HALT Plan Question
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Kirk and Fred discuss a test plan sent to Kirk and how this plan misses the point of accelerated testing.
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SOR 905 A HALT Plan Question
SOR 887 Changing Customer Expectations
Changing Customer Expectations
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent product failure that Kirk had with the manufacturer of his e-bike, and the positive outcome.
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SOR 886 Making Assumptions
Making Assumptions
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Kirk and Fred discuss the use of assumptions in the reliability models, testing, and predictions
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SOR 874 Redundancy by Design
Redundancy by Design
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of backups and system redundancy in the design of electronics for increased reliability.
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SOR 873 Wishful Accelerated Testing
Wishful Accelerated Testing
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Kirk and Fred discussing a accelerated stress test that a listener was going to use a different combination of stresses on samples to determine life estimates.
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SOR 866 Career Strategies
Career Strategies
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Kirk and Fred discuss about a career progression in the field of reliability engineering and job movement in this post-pandemic work world.
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SOR 865 The Right to Repair
The Right to Repair
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Kirk and Fred discuss new efforts in states to legislate the consumer’s right to repair equipment they have purchased.
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SOR 856 ChatGPT and Reliability
ChatGPT and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discuss the use of artificial intelligence engines such as ChatGPT in Reliability Engineering. A copy of the ChatGPT questions and responses that we discuss on this podcast is listed in the show notes below.
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SOR 855 Mechanical Lessons Learned
Mechanical Lessons Learned
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s recent trip to the Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) and the reliability of Pinball Machines which new designs have been produced for over six decades. Some of the mechanical assemblies have not changed in design for those many decades, even though some changes would be simple and useful, but change is difficult in this very small group of manufacturers.
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SOR 848 Monitoring Manufacturing Product Reliability
Monitoring Manufacturing Product Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to ensure that the quality and reliability of the last units produced from a manufacturing line is the same as the first units produced.
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SOR 847 Issues with Single Stress Testing
Issues with Single Stress Testing
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Kirk and Fred discussing a question from a listener regarding a specific failure mechanism and time to failure for the same, and how most failures are not due to a single stress condition.
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SOR 836 Backup Balance
Backup Balance
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Kirk and Fred discussing how much we should invest in backup power or systems redundancy to prepare for rare weather or use conditions.
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SOR 835 Role of Technical Papers
Role of Technical Papers
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Kirk and Fred discussing technical papers, which Fred and Kirk have a few on the website Research Gate, and the role they play in the reliability engineering world.
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SOR 826 Reliability and Statistics
Reliability and Statistics
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of statistics in reliability engineering, where they are useful and where their use may not be the most efficient way to find and fix the cause of failure.
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SOR 825 Learning about Failures
Learning about Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the idea of listing of failure mechanisms and their different viewpoints on how we learn some of the common failure mechanisms
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