The Most Common FMEA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – Part I

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Carl and Fred discuss some of the most common mistakes made by FMEA practitioners and how they can be avoided. In this episode, 4 of the most common mistakes are discussed.
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Benefits of Reliability Education for the Entire Team

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Adam and Fred discuss the importance of teaching, coaching and encouraging your engineering peers.
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Generate Invitations to Improve Reliability within Your Company

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Adam and Fred discuss how to help your team want to learn about reliability.
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HAST in Production

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Adam and Fred discuss HAST, HASS, and HASA as products transition from development to manufacturing.
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When is it Time to Buy a Chamber

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Kirk and Fred discuss when and how best to justify the costs to move from using an external lab to perform HALT testing to building an internal HALT lab.

There are many benefits of having a HALT chamber or environmental testing capability, but many of those reasons are not easily quantifiable in dollars.
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What to Expect When Contracting a HALT Lab

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Kirk and Fred discuss what should be considered when choosing to use an external lab to perform HALT evaluations. Distance, costs, measurement instrumentation, lab experience and knowledge of HALT by lab personnel are all part of the considerations deciding what HALT lab to use.
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Transition of Reliability Culture

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Adam and Fred as they discuss how the approach to reliability tools and practices change within a product development culture.
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The Importance of Reliability Training

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Adam and Fred discuss how training in reliability with advance the team’s ability to participate in a reliability program.
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The Gap Assessment Process

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Carl and Fred discuss how to identify what to include in your reliability plans.
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The Scope of a Reliability Plan

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Carl and Fred discuss how to determine and agree on the overall scope of reliability plans, and why this is important.
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The Essence of Reliability Plans

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There are many important attributes to reliability plans.

In this episode, Carl and Fred discuss what is meant by reliability plan tasks and how to increase the effectiveness of reliability plans by writing well thought out task descriptions.
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ALT Considerations Using Thermal Cycling

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Andre and Fred discuss a few considerations when conducting thermal cycling accelerated life testing.
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Warranty and What You Can Do About It

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Andre and Fred discuss the connection between warranty and the development, manufacturing, and supplier management teams.
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Creating a Reliability Program Plan that optimizes usage of reliability testing and tools

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Adam and Kirk discuss Reliability Program Plans
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Should reliability prediction be part of your reliability plan?

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the controversial subject of reliability prediction. The discussion centers around the value of reliability prediction and whether or not it should be part of a reliability plan.
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