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Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance — 541 episodes
SOR 1208 Return Logistics and Failures
SOR 1207 Weibull is Useful
SOR 1206 The GM Ignition Switch Failure
SOR 1205 Choosing the Right Reliability Metrics — Part 2
SOR 1204 Choosing the Right Reliability Metrics — Part 1
SOR 1203 Human Feedback vs AI Feedback
SOR 1202 Building a Strong Reliability Culture
SOR 1201 Decision Room Carry Problem
SOR 1200 When to Use Sensors
SOR 1199 How One Backhoe Can Break the Internet
SOR 1198 FMEA & AI: What is the Human Role?
SOR 1197 How to Select FMEA
SOR 1196 The Evolving Nature of FMEA
SOR 1195 AI Techniques and Projects
SOR 1194 DFR and Reliability Engineers
SOR 1193 The Value of Accendo Reliability
SOR 1192 PoF Resources
SOR 1191 FMEA Compensating Provisions
SOR 1190 FMEA Scales
SOR 1189 AI Names ‘Best’ Reliability Engineers
SOR 1188 Electronics in Today’s Vehicles
SOR 1187 They Are Just Not Listening
SOR 1186 MTBF to Weibull?
SOR 1185 Best Lessons Learned Method
SOR 1184 Damage Modeling
SOR 1183 Weibull and Crow-AMSSA
SOR 1182 Complex Product Reliability
SOR 1181 What is Reliability?
SOR 1180 Yes, Culture Can Change
SOR 1179 Why Gaps?
SOR 1178 Networking and Professional Development
SOR 1177 The Reliability Contract
SOR 1176 Reliability and Volume
SOR 1175 Got a Chamber? So…
SOR 1174 Right Tool at the Right Time
SOR 1173 Reliability is Still Important
SOR 1172 Tradeoffs and Right to Repair
SOR 1171 Changing Conditions and Challenges
SOR 1170 Lifecycle Target Misalignment
SOR 1169 Ongoing Projects
SOR 1168 25 Year Old Communicator
SOR 1167 Future Reliability Engineering
SOR 1166 Best Recommended Option
SOR 1165 Analyzing Repaired Spares
SOR 1164 Modeling Maintenance Benefits
SOR 1163 Why Paper Jams Persist
SOR 1162 Risk Prioritization in FMEA
SOR 1161 Our Unique Role in Reliability
SOR 1160 Data Gathering Challenges
SOR 1159 2 HALT Objections
SOR 1158 Clarifying a Point About HALT
SOR 1157 Dealing with No Failures
SOR 1156 Reasons to Model
SOR 1155 Timely Reliability Thinking
SOR 1154 Modeling and Testing
SOR 1153 One Sample Statistical Paradox
SOR 1152 Reliability Engineering Compentancies
SOR 1151 Why Your Product Requirements are Slipping (and How to Fix Them)
SOR 1150 Reliability in Start-up vs. Established Businesses
SOR 1149 Assume Bugs
SOR 1148 Effective Leadership
SOR 1147 Writing Skills
SOR 1146 Customer Expectations
SOR 1145 Standard Reliability Methods
SOR 1144 Trick Questions
SOR 1143 Getting Hired
SOR 1142 Starting a New Reliability Team
SOR 1141 Presenting Skills
SOR 1140 Getting and Giving Feedback
SOR 1139 Leaving a Team Better Off
SOR 1138 What is In it For Them
SOR 1137 Podcast Listens
SOR 1136 Early Life Failures
SOR 1135 Pitfalls of Reliability Testing
SOR 1134 Build, Test, Fix
SOR 1133 Statistics and Reliability
SOR 1132 AI & Reliability Use
SOR 1131 Selecting Tests
SOR 1130 Capturing Value
SOR 1129 Today’s New Reliability Challenge
SOR 1128 Reliability ≠ Testing
SOR 1127 Understanding Assumptions
SOR 1126 Good and Bad Meetings
SOR 1125 Roofing Material Failure
SOR 1124 The Future of HALT
SOR 1123 From MTBF to AI – Rapid Fire Reliability Questions
SOR 1122 The Right to Repair
SOR 1121 The Role of Stories
SOR 1120 Asking Questions
SOR 1119 EV Charging Stations
SOR 1118 Redundancy and Culture
SOR 1117 Supplier Trust Issues
SOR 1116 What Counts as a Failure?
SOR 1115 DFMEA and Assumptions
SOR 1114 Listening and Reliability Engineering
SOR 1113 Data Usage
SOR 1112 Quality Management Systems
SOR 1111 Customer Service and AI
SOR 1110 Consumer Electronics and Cars
SOR 1109 Planned Obsolescence
SOR 1108 Training Options
SOR 1107 Failure Mechanism Awareness
SOR 1106 What’s So Hard About Planning
SOR 1105 Office Hours, Plus
SOR 1104 Overcoming Product Protections for HALT
SOR 1103 HALT Late in the Program
SOR 1102 The Trouble with Interfaces
SOR 1101 Team Creativity Techniques
SOR 1100 How Do we Set Reliability Requirements?
SOR 1099 How do We do ‘Reliability Allocation’?
SOR 1098 Special Characteristics
SOR 1097 How HA and FMEA Relate
SOR 1096 How FMEA Worksheets can Help (and Hinder)
SOR 1095 Reliability Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
SOR 1094 Show Me the Money
SOR 1093 Quality and Reliability Disrupted
SOR 1092 Risk or Safety Triggers
SOR 1091 Keep it Simple
SOR 1090 Connectors
SOR 1089 10 Gems Career Start Advice
SOR 1088 AI Future of FMEA
SOR 1087 What do Reliability Engineers Do?
SOR 1086 Enough Data?
SOR 1085 Risk Monitoring Triggers
SOR 1084 Reliability Allocation
SOR 1083 Portable Device Feasibility
SOR 1082 Equations for Goal Setting
SOR 1081 Customer Requirements
SOR 1080 Bearing Failure and Analysis
SOR 1079 Decisions and Metrics
SOR 1078 Communicating Complex Topics
SOR 1077 Loss of Expertise
SOR 1076 Research Options
SOR 1075 Vendors and Reliability
SOR 1074 Mastering AI and Career
SOR 1073 Reliability Engineering Books
SOR 1072 Psychology and Reliability
SOR 1071 Better Risk Management
SOR 1070 AI and Reliability Planning
SOR 1069 System FMEA
SOR 1068 Risk Planning
SOR 1067 Phantom Test Results
SOR 1066 Sample Size Considerations
SOR 1065 Fault Tree Analysis
SOR 1064 Dismissing Failures
SOR 1063 Test to Pass or Fail
SOR 1062 Traditional Reliability Methods
SOR 1061 Adhesives
SOR 1060 Excessive Starts and Stops Modeling
SOR 1059 EV Battery Life
SOR 1058 Use and Environmental Data
SOR 1057 Intermittent Failure During a Test
SOR 1056 Is a PhD Worth It?
SOR 1055 Long-form Reading
SOR 1054 Using RBD Effectively
SOR 1053 A Good Reliability Engineer
SOR 1052 Confidence Reliability
SOR 1051 Reliability and Safety
SOR 1050 A Curse of Reliability Engineers
SOR 1049 The Testing Strategy
SOR 1048 Why Set a Reliability Goal
SOR 1047 Review of RAMS 2025
SOR 1046 Building a Reliability Team
SOR 1045 Complex AI Reliability
SOR 1044 Reliability Engineer or No
SOR 1043 Value of Failures
SOR 1042 Reliability Tradeoffs
SOR 1041 Service Life Requirements
SOR 1040 Getting it Right
SOR 1039 Competing Risk or Not
SOR 1038 FMEA and AI
SOR 1037 NUDD
SOR 1036 Defined Environment
SOR 1035 Lasting Just Long Enough
SOR 1034 Make it Less Robust
SOR 1033 Conference Value
SOR 1032 Available Reliability Information
SOR 1031 Warranty Analysis for Repairable Systems
SOR 1030 Starting a Consultancy
SOR 1029 Thermal HALT
SOR 1028 Dealing with Ongoing Changes
SOR 1027 Executing the Plan
SOR 1026 Starting a Reliability Program
SOR 1025 Getting Started with Vibration Testing
SOR 1024 MTBF and an Indicator
SOR 1023 What Counts
SOR 1022 Facilitator and Deep Understanding
SOR 1021 Influence vs Facilitation
SOR 1020 8D with ‘G’
SOR 1019 Can Manufacturing Improve the Design
SOR 1018 Calculate Equipment Reliability
SOR 1017 Influence
SOR 1016 Do it Right the First Time
SOR 1015 Moisture Failure Mechanisms
SOR 1014 Overcomplicating Systems
SOR 1013 Two Approaches
SOR 1012 The Trouble with Habits
SOR 1011 Design Justice
SOR 1010 Uneasiness with AI
SOR 1009 Reliability and Vacations
SOR 1008 Doing Calculations
SOR 1007 Pace of Facilitating
SOR 1006 Reliability Ethics
SOR 1005 Tech Obsolescence
SOR 1004 Confirmation Bias with HALT
SOR 1003 Risks of Persistence
SOR 1002 Decline of Quality
SOR 1001 Practice Data Sets
SOR 1000 The 1,000th Episode
SOR 999 Product Life Time
SOR 998 Reliability and Politics
SOR 997 Preparing to Interview
SOR 996 FMEA and HAZOP
SOR 995 Hidden Reliability
SOR 994 Introducing Risk Management Plan
SOR 993 What Happened to Quality?
SOR 992 Past Good and Bad Knowledge
SOR 991 What is MLE?
SOR 990 Impact of IoT on Maintenance
SOR 989 No Trouble Found Issue
SOR 988 Difference Between Quality and Reliability Statistics
SOR 987 Dealing with Missing Data
SOR 986 Pushing the Limits
SOR 985 Pursuing Ribbons
SOR 984 Instead of Reliability Prediction
SOR 983 Good Reliability Testing
SOR 982 High Precision Planning and Maintenance
SOR 981 Asset Management vs Performance
SOR 980 Effect and Likelihood
SOR 979 Conveying FMEA Results
SOR 978 Supply Management and Context
SOR 977 Telling the Boss No
SOR 976 Reliability in a Short Term Org
SOR 975 Eye-Popping Stunning Results
SOR 974 New Position Advice
SOR 973 Reliability Allocation Methods
SOR 972 An Idea Short Explainer Videos
SOR 971 FRACAS and CMMS
SOR 970 What is a Mode?
SOR 969 Common Reliability Mistakes
SOR 968 Selecting Tools to Solve Problems
SOR 967 Are Silos an Issue
SOR 966 Why is PoF so Hard?
SOR 965 MTBF, Really?
SOR 964 Finding Failures and Firefighting
SOR 963 Proving HALT Works
SOR 962 Limits of Block Diagrams
SOR 961 Where do Confidence Bounds Come From
SOR 960 Differing FMEA Approaches
SOR 959 Knotty Detection
SOR 958 Learning Weibull Analysis
SOR 957 Learning From Those Closest
SOR 956 Getting Failure Feedback
SOR 955 Data Analysis Assumptions
SOR 954 Ai Challenges and Opportunities
SOR 953 Robustness
SOR 952 Vintage Experience
SOR 951 Shorter Lifespan of Large Appliances
SOR 950 Value of Design FMEA
SOR 949 Forecasting Returns
SOR 948 Atlanta Airport Outage
SOR 947 Customer Support
SOR 946 Getting Questions Answered
SOR 945 Moose Lodge Syndrome
SOR 944 Check Your (Decision Making) Bias
SOR 943 Failure and Hazard Rate
SOR 942 Field and Operational Time
SOR 941 Risk vs Reliability
SOR 940 When I Know it’s Not Right
SOR 939 When to Consider Reliability
SOR 938 Predicting the Unknowns
SOR 937 Be Helpful
SOR 936 Interpreting Formulae
SOR 935 Change Management Success
SOR 934 Contingency and Risk Planning
SOR 933 FTA vs RBD
SOR 932 K out of N Systems
SOR 931 FMEA Detection – Useful?
SOR 930 Reliability Goals and Requirements
SOR 929 Redundancy Risk Balance
SOR 928 Risk and Reliability Lenses
SOR 927 Reliability from WWII
SOR 926 Just Assuming
SOR 925 Regulation Reducing Safety
SOR 924 Improving Information
SOR 923 When to do Monte Carlo
SOR 922 Many Ways to Estimate Reliability
SOR 921 Lifespan of an FMEA
SOR 920 RCM and FMEAs
SOR 919 Details and Plans
SOR 918 Plug and Pray
SOR 917 Bad History Challenge
SOR 916 Cycles or Time
SOR 915 Creating Reliability Awareness
SOR 914 Required to Use MIL-HDBK 217?
SOR 913 Using DFR Tools
SOR 912 Using Outside Labs
SOR 911 Dealing with Data
SOR 910 Consumable Product Reliability
SOR 909 Assumptions and Analysis
SOR 908 Why is Reliability a Process?
SOR 907 How Root is the Cause?
SOR 906 Environmental Testing
SOR 905 A HALT Plan Question
SOR 904 Good Reliability Requirements
SOR 903 Common FMEA Confusions
SOR 902 Learning What You Don’t Know
SOR 901 Good is Often Good Enough
SOR 900 Mil Hdbk 217 Again
SOR 899 Inspiring New STEM Students
SOR 898 ERM and Reliability Engineers
SOR 897 Creating a Culture of Innovation with Quality and Reliability
SOR 896 Q & R Management: Independence vs. Integration
SOR 895 Product Reliability in Complex Supply Chains
SOR 894 Sustainability and Reliability
SOR 893 Where is Reliability Training Going?
SOR 892 Where are FMEAs (and their standards) Heading?
SOR 891 Last Minutism
SOR 890 Hero Syndrome
SOR 889 Becoming a Consultant
SOR 888 The Role of Regulations
SOR 887 Changing Customer Expectations
SOR 886 Making Assumptions
SOR 885 Naked Mole Rat
SOR 884 Allocating Reliability – Conundrum
SOR 883 How to Start First Job
SOR 882 Operator Error?
SOR 881 Can You Change an Organization?
SOR 880 Bathtub Curve Flaws
SOR 879 Biggest Reliability Mistakes
SOR 878 The Worth of a Reliability Engineer
SOR 877 So Many Tools
SOR 876 Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Case Study
SOR 875 What Should a Reliability Engineer Do
SOR 874 Redundancy by Design
SOR 873 Wishful Accelerated Testing
SOR 872 Design Process Blindspots
SOR 871 Giving and a Reliability Career
SOR 870 Reliability Lunch and Learns
SOR 869 Reliability Engineering and Marketing Similarities
SOR 868 Reliability Engineering and AI
SOR 867 Identify Key Decisions
SOR 866 Career Strategies
SOR 865 The Right to Repair
SOR 864 Using Peck’s Equation
SOR 863 Failure Rate to a Distribution
SOR 862 Dealing with Reliability Risk
SOR 861 Reshoring and Talent
SOR 860 Software and Thinking
SOR 859 An ALT Design Question
SOR 858 Reliability Predictions and FMEA Occurrence
SOR 857 Selecting the Right Method
SOR 856 ChatGPT and Reliability
SOR 855 Mechanical Lessons Learned
SOR 854 Reliability Gap Assessment
SOR 853 Reliability Strategic Vision
SOR 852 Decisions and Value
SOR 851 ALT Sample Size
SOR 850 Sedentary Inertia in Quality
SOR 849 Two Sides of a Coin: Quality and Reliability
SOR 848 Monitoring Manufacturing Product Reliability
SOR 847 Issues with Single Stress Testing
SOR 846 Stuck in Your Job
SOR 845 RAMS Warts and All
SOR 844 Routine Reliability
SOR 843 Hidden Reliability Wins
SOR 842 Working on the Right Things
SOR 841 Expectations
SOR 840 Regulators and Risk
SOR 839 First Steps with Data
SOR 838 Basic Risk Management
SOR 837 Checking Assumptions
SOR 836 Backup Balance
SOR 835 Role of Technical Papers
SOR 834 Reliability Assumptions
SOR 833 FMEA Occurrence Question
SOR 832 What is Your Approach
SOR 831 Setting up an ORT
SOR 830 Dealing With Product Characteristics
SOR 829 New Ways to Break Things
SOR 828 New School Leadership
SOR 827 60th Percentile with Vendor Data
SOR 826 Reliability and Statistics
SOR 825 Learning about Failures
SOR 824 Single Use Product Reliability
SOR 823 Stresses and Mechanism
SOR 822 Identify Weak Points
SOR 821 Confirmation Bias
SOR 820 Failure to Adjust
SOR 819 Supply Chain Tradeoffs
SOR 818 Improving or Suing
SOR 817 Warranty to Failure Rate
SOR 816 Uniqueness of Reliability Engineers
SOR 815 Listing of Failure Mechanisms
SOR 814 Professional Societies: The Rules Have Changed
SOR 813 Quality of Decisions
SOR 812 Storage of Test Parts
SOR 811 Reliability Prediction Standards
SOR 810 Metrics and Games
SOR 809 The Value of Curiosity
SOR 808 What is a Reliability Score?
SOR 807 Confidence and Tolerance Intervals
SOR 806 MEOST Setup Remotely
SOR 805 Reliability Spooky Stories
SOR 804 Risk and Supply Chain
SOR 803 Decision Making in Reliability
SOR 802 How to Talk About MTBF
SOR 801 Deferred Maintenance in the News
SOR 800 What Could Go Wrong
SOR 799 Changing Company Career Advice
SOR 798 Inside Company Career Advice
SOR 797 Data and Automation of Analysis
SOR 796 Very Long Term Storage Question
SOR 795 The Point of Your Role
SOR 794 The Term Risk Management
SOR 793 Putting Reliability Plans Together
SOR 792 Overcoming Resistance
SOR 791 Approaches to Systemic Change
SOR 790 Necessity of Collaboration
SOR 789 Reliability of Produce
SOR 788 Prework for HALT
SOR 787 Working with a Lab
SOR 786 Strength-Stress with Limited Information
SOR 785 Restarting Quality
SOR 784 Decision Fatigue
SOR 783 A Facilitator’s Role
SOR 782 A PFMEA Use Question
SOR 781 Data and Mechanism
SOR 780 Influencing Change
SOR 779 Dealing with Changing Requirements
SOR 778 Connect Activity to Business Objectives
SOR 777 We Are All Consultants
SOR 776 Transferring Knowledge
SOR 775 Manager and Leader
SOR 774 Why Do Networking
SOR 773 Training that Sticks
SOR 772 Independent Design Reviewer
SOR 771 Too Many Meetings
SOR 770 Who Makes Something Reliable?
SOR 769 Confidence from Understanding
SOR 768 Training Everyone for Risk Management
SOR 767 Decision Making for Reliability
SOR 766 What Matters in a Demonstration Test
SOR 765 Fast vs Thorough
SOR 764 Regression Metrics
SOR 763 Technology Only Goes So Far
SOR 762 Problem Solving with Customer Service
SOR 761 Encouraging New Engineers
SOR 760 Dealing with Suppliers
SOR 759 Talking about HALT
SOR 758 Incomplete Data
SOR 757 No Such Thing as Safe
SOR 756 Fitting into a Risk Program
SOR 755 Risk Assessments
SOR 754 What Software Are You Using?
SOR 753 Catching Up with Questions
SOR 752 Bringing Back Old Plant Equipment
SOR 751 The Best Reliability Training
SOR 750 Decisions and Safety
SOR 749 Hierarchy of Engineering
SOR 748 Accuracy and Intervals
SOR 747 Celebrating Reliability Success
SOR 746 Do You Need a Degree in Reliability
SOR 745 Reliability Program vs Reality
SOR 744 Reliability Growth
SOR 743 System Engineering and Reliability
SOR 742 Reliability and Quality
SOR 741 What is Working in Quality
SOR 740 Building Rapport and Influence
SOR 739 Maintenance v Product Reliability Engineering
SOR 738 Design Use of Cpk
SOR 737 Proper Use of Cpk
SOR 736 Modern Phone Qualification
SOR 735 Value of Certification
SOR 734 Can Organizations Change
SOR 733 Change Management with Humans
SOR 732 Reliability Goals and Allocation
SOR 731 Easy to Ask Hard to Answer
SOR 730 The Future of Reliability
SOR 729 Unusual Reliability Applications
SOR 728 When a Proposal Fails
SOR 727 When to Stop Troubleshooting
SOR 726 Statistics, Mechanisms, Facilitation
SOR 725 Common Slope Assumption
SOR 724 Key Characteristics Revisited
SOR 723 Question Everything
SOR 722 Obsolescence and Reliability
SOR 721 Reliability and Testing
SOR 720 Reliability and Bathtub Curve
SOR 719 FMEAs and HALT
SOR 718 Dealing with HALT Fear
SOR 717 Planning a Reliability Program
SOR 716 Practical Way to Learn Statistics
SOR 715 Choosing Reliable Suppliers
SOR 714 Achieving or Calculating Reliability
SOR 713 Thoughts on ISO Standards
SOR 712 Still Need to Know the Basics
SOR 711 Are You Confident in Your Confidence?
SOR 710 HALT and Safety
SOR 709 A Great Customer Experience
SOR 708 How Well to Know Failure Mechanisms
SOR 707 Is There a Better Way than RPN?
SOR 706 What Reliability is Good Enough
SOR 705 What is the Failure Mechanism
SOR 704 What is this Risk Thing?
SOR 703 Hospital Power Supply Modeling
SOR 702 Podcasting and Reliability
SOR 701 Time to Market and Reliability
SOR 700 Purpose of Accendo Reliability
SOR 699 Only have MTBFs
SOR 698 Purpose of a Body of Knowledge
SOR 697 Reliability and Poor Project Management
SOR 696 Interpreting Test Results
SOR 695 Training and the Trades
SOR 694 How and What to Learn
SOR 693 Thoughts on ALARP
SOR 692 Reliability and Pumping Water
SOR 691 Design Failure Patterns
SOR 690 Reliability and Simplicity
SOR 689 Warning Signs and Culture
SOR 688 When is MTBF OK?
SOR 687 Creativity and Engineering
SOR 686 Short Term Thinking
SOR 685 Demonstration Testing
SOR 684 Perils of Assuming a Model
SOR 683 Public Reporting of Failures
SOR 682 Heroes versus Prevention
SOR 681 Selecting the Right Recommendations
SOR 680 Pareto was Right
SOR 679 Should We Ban the Term Failure
SOR 678 Wrapped Around the Axle
SOR 677 Military Customers, Center of Gravity, and Reliability
SOR 676 FMEAs and Percentage Reduction in Failures
SOR 675 A Better Way to do Design Reviews
SOR 674 Safety and Reliability
SOR 673 Safety – Binary or Variable
SOR 672 Make or Check Reliability
SOR 671 Supply Chain Controls and Checks
SOR 670 Kitchen Appliance Failure
SOR 669 Wright’s Law and Reliability
SOR 668 Maintenance Culture Matters