Design for Reliability and Testing

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Carl and Fred discuss the general definition of design for reliability, then the essential essence of DFR. The ability to influence the point of decision during the design and development process.
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Using DFMEAs as Intended

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Adam and Fred discuss how one of the forgotten core functionalities of DFMEA is its contribution to successful project management.
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Syncing Marketing and Reliability Engineering

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Adam and Fred discuss how to sync marketing and reliability engineering goals.
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Balancing Time to Market and Reliability Priorities

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Adam and Fred discuss how mid project priorities may pause or stop reliability activities
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Marketing is Driving Reliability

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Adam and Fred discuss how many industries that historically didn’t put product reliability as the most critical competing factor now do.
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Selecting the Correct ALT

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Adam and Fred discuss the criticality of selecting the correct ALT for the product to be tested.
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Introduction to Acceleration Models

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Adam and Fred discuss the fundamentals of Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)
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Team Culture and Reliability

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Adam and Fred discuss with guest Jim McCarthy, of McCarthy Industries, how organizational cultures can change to include long term deliverables.
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Getting Important Services from Your Supplier

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Tim and Fred discuss the risks of focusing only on cost, and how that prevents companies from getting more from their suppliers.
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A Better Plan than Incoming Inspection

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Tim and Fred discuss the pros and cons of incoming inspection and propose some lower cost alternatives that are more effective.
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Troubleshooting Failure Analysis

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Kirk and Fred discuss steps that should be followed when trying to find the location and cause of failures in electronics.

They use examples of from their own experiences with recent failures of appliances and personal computers and how using a systematic approach to investigating failures is the best way to discover the causes of failures.
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What Do I Need to Detect Failures?

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Kirk and Fred discuss how to know when a failure occurs during a stress test to find operational and destruct limits.

In some cases, the failure and component causing the failure are very obvious when “the smoke comes out”.

In other cases, the product being tested has a performance degradation under increased stress that can be used as discriminators for ensuring reliability and quality during product development and manufacturing.

They also discuss how some fundamental technology limitations of common operational monitors, such as a display LCD, does not have to limit the stress to the more typically more capable circuit board assembly.
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