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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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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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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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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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Kirk and Fred discussing his purchase of a new car and the manufacturers environmental condition as declared in the owners manual.
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Kirk and Fred discussing ways to find intermittent system failures.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a real case of product failure for a OEM sub-supplier and determining how to isolate the cause
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Kirk and Fred discussing the value of getting field failures returned for failure analysis and best practices in determining the causes.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relationship between quality and reliability. Quality can lead to a functional failure but sometimes is cosmetic or feel of a product.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the difficulty of keeping the failure data and details of past failures of products in order to make more reliable products.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the problem of getting failure data from predecessor products for many companies. Without detailed useful and verified failure data, it is difficult to improve reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the relation of costs versus how much reliability is needed for the design and production of electronics systems
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of quantifying the amount of life there is in solid state electronics with no moving parts.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the long, ever-impending death of the outdated reliability prediction handbook and its progeny.
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