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Kirk and Fred discussing the adaptability of a HALT process and what stresses should be included in a HALT evaluation.
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This episode of the weekly podcast covers the need of designing for maintainability. It is one of the biggest processes involved in the area of reliability and helps in improving the availability of the equipment in time. So first of all, we need to understand what this term is —and the tools and techniques that are required to make it successful.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the creation of a HALT plan and how to adapt HALT plans based on what is discovered during the HALT process.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenge of getting samples to test during product development. Early prototypes of new products are typically scarce, expensive, and in high demand to many engineering teams to test. HALT testing requires pushing the product to operational limits and discovering what will fail which is scary for management and engineers that do not understand the value of information that is discovered with empirical limit tests.
This episode is about designing for reliability. It has been proven over time that the best inventions are designed properly after planning them and before implementation — even in the earlier times people used to draw things before they actually made them. After you have done an analysis of the equipment, there is not even close to good probability to make that product completely reliable. That is why a good design should be made before developing anything for which companies hire professional designers and good ones have their own designing teams too.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the role technical conferences play in your professional development
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Tim interviews Nihal Sinnadurai an engineer and organizer of the 1st and 2nd Foundation program.
You have carefully crafted a detailed reliability goal including function, environment, probability, and duration, plus apportioned it to critical supplied subsystems and components. Your vendor decides to use MTBF instead.
What can you do? What should you do?
This episode of the weekly podcast gives a detailed insight about spare parts. First of all, a technician should know whether to repair the equipment or replace it. For this, he needs to have some failure data to help him improve his handling strategy. Next question here is that which spare parts do we need to stock? The answer for this can be obtained on the basis of analysis mechanisms such as Failure mode and Effects Analysis or data collected through other reliability measures.
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Andre and Fred discussing how journal papers fit into your reliability engineering professional development.
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Andre and Fred discussing the interplay of modeling and testing to enhance the value you get with your testing.
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In today’s episode, the topic of the discussion is 8D problem solving. When it comes to problem-solving, there are a lot of procedures and techniques out there but what most of the engineers and reliability professional use is the Eight Disciplines problem solving. It is step by step approach to finding the root cause of the problem and then resolve it effectively and systemically. To perform this method, you need to have a team of different experts in place as it is not the job of a single person. Then, you can start solving issues in the following steps.
James and Fred discussing finding the balance between designing in reliability and optimizing maintenance practices.
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James and Fred discussing the importance of gathering the right data for the reliability engineers.
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