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Kirk and Fred discussing a basic subject that Kirk has been speaking about for over three decades, Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and carrying the ideas of Gregg Hobbs, Ph.D. who termed the acronym and methodology
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Kirk and Fred discussing their views on how to best learn the discipline of reliability engineering.
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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to ship a product that may or may not be safe and reliable.
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Kirk and Fred discussing higher education and the importance of a college degree in reliability for a career in reliability engineering.
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Kirk and Fred discussing failures in products after launch and the importance of and knowing how the customers use conditions.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting a proposal for new testing (i.e HALT) accepted.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of when to end efforts in troubleshooting a failure.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the article Kirk wrote titled “Why the Drain in the Bathtub Curve Matters” (see link in notes) about how technological obsolescence, and not product failures are the cause that cause many products to be retired or replaced.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how much of reliability engineering is devoted to testing and what other functions should a reliability engineer do.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the relationship between FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and HALT (Highly Accelerated Limit Test)
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Kirk and Fred discuss misunderstandings of the limit testing and believing it’s “just breaking it”
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relationship between reliability, the fundamental limits of technology, and safety.
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s experience with a new pinball machine’s component failures and the manufacturer.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the expectations of reliability of their own vehicles and some of the wear out mechanisms we expect.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a very important question in all of unreliability.
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