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Kirk and Fred discussing whether to design for the anticipated extreme corner case of environmental stresses that some percentage of the product may see in use.
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Kirk and Fred discussing testing and monitoring the development of reliability and sustaining reliability and when to stop product improvement using HALT methods.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the common response from design engineers when a weakness is found in HALT that is well outside the specifications
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Kirk and Fred discussing a little of the history of Kirk’s working with Dr. Gregg Hobbs, PE, the former IEEE/CPMT technical group Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability and the future of promoting and teaching the use of HALT and HASS.
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Kirk and Fred discuss whether reliability testing is necessary or not.
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Kirk and Fred discussing what it takes to really make industry-wide changes.
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Kirk and Fred discussing underwater drones and how we divide up a product to most efficiently apply HALT to subsystems before applying stress to the whole product
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Kirk and Fred discussing discussing the recent article that Kirk posted on LinkedIn about smartphone’s water resistance
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Kirk and Fred discussing old gasoline motors used in lawn equipment and how they can last what seems forever.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent failures of the new folding Samsung Galaxy phone and what might have been missed in their testing video.
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Kirk and Fred discussing Reliability Specifications and how companies set reliability requirements in new products
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Kirk and Fred discussing reliability training and the best way to have new reliability development techniques.
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s purchase of a new laptop and his expectations of reliability.
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Kirk and Fred discussing recent aircraft failures and how suppliers sort through all the reported data on failures and complaints from the field.
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Kirk and Fred discussing manufacturing thermal specifications of components and how HALT is used to find margins beyond specifications.
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