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Kirk and Fred discussing how to ensure that the quality and reliability of the last units produced from a manufacturing line is the same as the first units produced.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a question from a listener regarding a specific failure mechanism and time to failure for the same, and how most failures are not due to a single stress condition.
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Chris and Fred discuss what you can do to feel good about your job … including when you know it is time to move on.
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Chris and Fred discuss how it felt like the 2023 Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) went? Was it a success? Is it going downhill?
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Dianna and Fred discussing routine reliability from a listener’s question: when creating a reliability plan for a project, how do we separate the routine and unique parts of reliability activities?
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Dianna and Fred discussing hidden reliability wins: when reliability efforts go right, things don’t go wrong. So then, how can reliability engineers quantify their work?
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Philip and Fred discussing what should reliability engineers be working on that are the right things.
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Philip and Fred discussing how setting expectations impact reliability engineering tasks and results.
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Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem or regulation. If the regulators are not the adults in the room, then we have a problem.
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Chris and Fred discuss what is the first thing with you do when someone gives you lots of information. What do you do?
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Greg and Fred discussing how to set up a risk assessment program.
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Greg and Fred discussing how assumptions in reliability and quality engineering are highly critical. We all know what assume can stand for: make an ‘ass of u and me.’
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Kirk and Fred discussing how much we should invest in backup power or systems redundancy to prepare for rare weather or use conditions.
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Kirk and Fred discussing technical papers, which Fred and Kirk have a few on the website Research Gate, and the role they play in the reliability engineering world.
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Carl and Fred discussing the broad subject of assumptions, and how they impact reliability analysis and applications. When are assumptions good and when are they questionable?
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