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R U a Keyboard Jockey?

Philip and Fred discussing several salient reliability and maintenance pitfalls and the role of continuous learning and solid mentoring for new reliability engineers.

Learn how craft bread making, pickle failures, and physics guessing teach us how to recognize the impossible and why being a keyboard jockey is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.

Key Points

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss:

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss the advanced interrelations between making craft bread, pickle fermentation and applied Physics based guessing applied to Reliability & Maintenance practical topics.

Fred and Phil muse and poke some fun at real issues that include:

  • Software Jockeys – the Shiny new coin effect
  • Knowing your answer is wrong – applying the “sniff test”
  • Recognizing the Impossible
  • Parameterized Regression pitfalls
  • Applications of MTBF to RAMS Studies
  • Forward Asset Predictions with confidence
  • The never ending cycle of continuous learning.

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

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