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Kirk and Fred discussing companies making reliability a priority early in the product development as opposed to waiting to after market release to see if it’s reliability.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the many years of discussions on Speaking of Reliability since Fred and Kirk recorded Episode 1 in 2015, six years ago.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how new technology designs of buildings or electronics are usually over-designed in the first generation.
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Kirk and Fred discussing marketing reliability, brand reputation for reliability along with tradeoffs between making equipment simple and reliable.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenges of failure analysis and reporting of the root cause of electronic system failures and corrective action to the consuming public
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Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failures during development.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how we can insure we receive outsourced parts meet our requirements when we may not know what variances in specifications will affect your particular system.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent failure of an electric range/oven and the troubleshooting, FA and repair. See the show notes to see photos and details of the failure analysis.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the evolution of technology and reliability in consumer products.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent opinion article in the New York Times on technology waste.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of finding a latent problem in a product after your company has been producing and selling for some time.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how we continue to evolve our reliability expectations as technology becomes more robust and reliable.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the role and relationship of meeting standards and making a reliable product.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of understanding the root cause of failures for products that are hard to retrieve from the field or have other reasons that make failure analysis almost impossible.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the failures of the electrical grid due to a extreme cold and snow in Texas that was a very rare weather condition in February 2021.
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