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Chris and Fred discuss what are often seen as competing/different/complementary/friendly/unfriendly disciplines … systems and reliability engineering. How does one relate to the other?
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Dianna and Fred discussing differences and similarities between quality and reliability.
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Dianna and Fred discussing the role of Quality and quality professionals in an organization.
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Carl and Fred discussing how to build rapport with colleagues, as one of the steps in shaping and influencing product designs and manufacturing processes.
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Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the crossover knowledge between asset reliability and product reliability. What are the similarities? What are the differences? What about a potential career change between one and the other?
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Chris and Fred discuss the use of this thing called ‘Cpk’ which is what we call a ‘capability index.’ This is a measure of how ‘capable’ a typically manufacturing process is, which helps us understand the percentage of defects we create. But reliability engineers often see this as something that ‘manufacturing teams’ or ‘quality people’ do. But is it?
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Chris and Fred discuss what ‘Cpk’ and other ‘capability indices’ mean … especially when it comes to reliability. Never heard of this or want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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Dianna and Fred discussing the information needed to determine how to qualify product reliability. ᐅ Play Episode
Carl and Fred discussing a listener question about the value of certification in reliability engineering. Does it help one’s career advancement? Will it enhance one’s salary? What are the pros and cons? Does certification improve one’s prospects internationally?
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Greg and Fred discuss the increasing requirement for organizations to change.
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Greg and Fred discuss the range of elements involved with change management.
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability goals … and how we ‘allocate’ them to components and subsystems. This is really important, as subsystems and components are often built and designed by different designers or organizations. So how do we translate system-level goals to MEANINGFUL lower-level goals?
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Chris and Fred discuss questions that are easy to ask … but hard to answer. And these questions are often hard to answer because the person asking the question hasn’t thought about the REAL question they are trying to answer. So how many samples do I need for everything to be OK???
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Carl and Fred discussing the future of the field of reliability engineering, including where we have been and where we are going.
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Carl and Fred discussing unusual and interesting reliability projects that cross disciplines.
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