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Kirk and Fred discussing the challenges of failure analysis and reporting of the root cause of electronic system failures and corrective action to the consuming public
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Kirk and Fred discussing why the service departments will get more accolades for repairing failed systems than those in design department that find and prevent failures during development.
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Carl and Fred discussing methods for selecting reliability recommendations, following the process used to develop effective reliability plans.
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Carl and Fred discussing the subject of prioritizing tasks, both in life, and in the field of reliability engineering.
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Chris and Fred discuss the term ‘failure’ … and should we use it?
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘wrapped around the axle.’ It is one of those perfect analogies … especially for people who fall for imperfect analogies! Like that assuming that all we have to do is wait for ‘early failures’ to disappear before we get into to the ‘bottom part of the bathtub curve’ … really?
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Chris and Kirk discuss how militaries go about making and getting reliable stuff. And this is sometimes more successful than others …
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Chris and Carl ask each other … by how much do FMEAs improve reliability? … or reduce failure?
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Chris and Fred ask each other ‘what makes a good design review?’ This is a great question. Reliability engineering can help! (… click here to read an article about this). If you want to learn more – listen to this podcast!
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Carl and Fred discussing the tools of safety and reliability engineering, and how these tools overlap.
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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of safety. Specifically whether an item or device can be considered safe or not safe (binary), or whether there are degrees of safety (variable).
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Chris and Fred discuss the difference between ‘making’ and ‘checking’ reliability. And there is a difference. This podcast follows on from Chris’s article about a US Department of Defense (DoD) quick reference guide on a ‘Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Body of Knowledge.’ The problem with this document was it was all about ‘checking’ reliability – and not enough ‘making’ reliability.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how we can insure we receive outsourced parts meet our requirements when we may not know what variances in specifications will affect your particular system.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a recent failure of an electric range/oven and the troubleshooting, FA and repair. See the show notes to see photos and details of the failure analysis.
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Chris and Fred discuss this thing called ‘Wright’s Law’ which is a really fascinating way of describing how things improve as we create more of them. And why is this relevant for reliability engineering? Does ‘reliability growth’ ring a bell?
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