Robustness

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Philip and Fred discuss the idea of a robust design for a product or system.
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Vintage Experience

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Philip and Fred discuss the value of the experience our co-workers may be able to share.

• How important is Mentoring in the Workplace? Should we all be mentors?
• How do we collaborate with a cross functional team that is built through the many generations and Leveridge the experience and foster the growth of a recent addition to your workforce.
• How do we build a team and best advantage the walking encyclopedia? Coporate knowledge and Cross pollination of great ideas through effective collaboration techniques.
• What techniques are best to merge grey haired knowledge with the arrogance of youth?
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Shorter Lifespan of Newer Appliances

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Carl and Fred discuss an article from the Wall Street Journal describing how newer appliances tend to have more complexity and shorter lifespans, and what can be done to reverse the trend.
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Value of Design FMEA

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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting question from a listener about modeling the money value of Design FMEAs.
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Forecasting Returns

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Chris and Fred discuss how you go about forecasting returns … and understanding things like warranty reliability for products that are ‘shipped all over the place? … at different times? Sound familiar?
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Atlanta Airport Outage

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Chris and Fred discuss what happened during the ‘2017 Atlanta Airport Blackout’ where power was lost for 11 hours, hundreds of flights had to be diverted, passengers needed to be housed in hotels, and lots of other costly things. Surely this was due to some sort of unforeseeable event bordering on the ‘supernatural?’ Nope. Not even a little bit.
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Customer Support

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Dianna and Fred discuss the challenges as a customer when calling for customer support.
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Getting Questions Answered

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Dianna and Fred discuss the challenges in asking others reliability questions and getting questions answered.
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Moose Lodge Syndrome

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Greg and Fred discuss how institutions can and should adapt, but often don’t.  The result is that even most Fortune 500 companies have a 10 year half life.
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Check Your (Decision Making) Bias

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Greg and Fred discuss how bias is a part of all of us.  Our challenge is that bias impacts our decision making from simple rules of thumb to complex decisions.
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Failure and Hazard Rate

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Chris and Fred discuss the similarities and differences between two terms that many people think mean the same thing.
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Field and Operational Time

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Chris and Fred discuss a listener’s question about dealing with different ‘duration’ metrics for their field data … so how do we find things like ‘operating time’ and other age-related metrics that aren’t calendar time that simply aren’t there?
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Risk vs Reliability

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Carl and Fred discuss whether the reliability community should focus on the body of knowledge associated with risk or reliability. ᐅ Play Episode

When I Know it’s Not Right

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Carl and Fred discuss a question brought up at recent conference: what do you do when you are supposed to do something that you know is not the right thing to do? The context was reliability engineering and management.
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When to Consider Reliability

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Kirk and Fred discuss at what point in the product development process should we consider applying reliability engineering to the concept and actual prototypes.
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