Making Testing Useful for Your Organization
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Kirk and Fred discuss whether reliability testing is necessary or not.
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SOR 438 Making Testing Useful for Your Organization
SOR 437 Possible Ways to Change the Reliability Engineering Industry
Possible Ways to Change the Reliability Engineering Industry
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Kirk and Fred discussing what it takes to really make industry-wide changes.
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SOR 427 Splitting a Product for HALT Focus
Splitting a Product for HALT Focus
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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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SOR 426 Water Resistant Smartphone Article
Water Resistant Smartphone Article
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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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SOR 424 Motors That Almost Last Forever
Motors That Almost Last Forever
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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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SOR 423 Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
Thoughts on Galaxy Fold Reliability
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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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SOR 416 How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
How to Use Reliability Specifications Well
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Kirk and Fred discussing Reliability Specifications and how companies set reliability requirements in new products
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SOR 415 Making Reliability Training Effective
Making Reliability Training Effective
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Kirk and Fred discussing reliability training and the best way to have new reliability development techniques.
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SOR 411 Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
Kirk Gets a New Laptop, How Long Before There is a Problem?
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Kirk and Fred discussing Kirk’s purchase of a new laptop and his expectations of reliability.
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SOR 410 How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
How Does an Organization Pay Attention to The Right Stuff?
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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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SOR 407 Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress?
Should Component Temperature Specifications Limit HALT Stress?
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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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SOR 406 Variability of Weather Data
Variability of Weather Data
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Kirk and Fred discussing the differences in weather conditions in their home locations and how variable extremes in environmental conditions and impacts to equipment design and its reliability.
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SOR 403 How to Balance Features and Reliability
How to Balance Features and Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing decisions made regarding the costs, features and reliability when make a purchase of home appliances and other consumer products.
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SOR 402 How to Build An Understanding of HALT
How to Build An Understanding of HALT
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Kirk and Fred discussing good, better and best ways to introduce and motivate a company to use weakness discovery test methodology.
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SOR 393 How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
How Did You Learn Reliability Engineering?
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Kirk and Fred discussing how his career path led to being a reliability engineer and meeting a working with Gregg Hobbs. Ph.D. the reliability leader that gave him a new perspective on HALT and HASS.
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