Engineering Judgement
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of “engineering judgement” in analysis of reliability testing and the results.
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SOR 617 Engineering Judgement
SOR 610 Public Perception and Reliability
Public Perception and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the public’s perception of reliability after having a product with poor reliability or one with impressive robustness and how the online sharing of information can affect that in sales, or lack of.
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SOR 609 Demistifying Derating
Demistifying Derating
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Kirk and Fred discussing the reasons and practice of derating components for the purpose of improving the reliability of electronics products, as Kirk’s experience has shown most causes of unreliability are due to mistakes and overlooked errors in design, use, or manufacturing
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SOR 602 Is a Test to Pass Useful?
Is a Test to Pass Useful?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the desire of everyone to “Pass the Tests”, which in reliability testing may not provide the best information on a products potential reliability.
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SOR 601 Checkbox Activities
Checkbox Activities
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Kirk and Fred discussing those reliability procedures such as cookbook predictions that are “check the box” activities and do not add value and may be misleading
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SOR 591 MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve
MTBF, Reliability, and the Curve
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Kirk and Fred discussing how testing a small sample size of a new product results on a larger margin of error for the larger population.
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SOR 590 The Balance of Good Enough
The Balance of Good Enough
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Kirk and Fred discussing the trade-offs between selling more reliable equipment for different markets, costs, and how reliable can we make a product
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SOR 581 Testing Without Knowing Mechanisms
Testing Without Knowing Mechanisms
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to test a new product without knowing the specific mechanisms that will be a possible weakness, and reliability issue in the field
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SOR 580 Understanding Use Profiles
Understanding Use Profiles
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Kirk and Fred discussing the planning of the user profiles and use conditions that engineers must make during the design process
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SOR 570 Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis
Policy – Minimum Acceptable Failure Analysis
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Kirk and Fred discussing when a failure rate of a product is acceptable or not acceptable.
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SOR 569 Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives
Dealing with False Positives or False Negatives
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Kirk and Fred discussing when to act on improvement of reliability from testing, HALT results, or change in field failure rates
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SOR 563 Tips on Failure Analysis
Tips on Failure Analysis
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Kirk and Fred discussing doing failure analysis and the challenges
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SOR 562 What are the New Challenges in Reliability Engineering?
What are the New Challenges in Reliability Engineering?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the new challenges in reliability engineering, which maybe the old challenges of moving away from the misleading approach of Failure Prediction Methodology (FPM) and for Fred its the continued use of MTBF as a metric for reliability.
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SOR 554 Do Customers only Want the Flat Part of the Curve
Do Customers only Want the Flat Part of the Curve?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the classic bathtub curve used in reliability engineering to define the life cycle of electronics and systems.
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SOR 553 How Many Samples?
How Many Samples?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting samples and the conclusions that can be drawn from testing and analyzing a low number of samples
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