Philip Sage

Philip and Fred discussing a question about locating a listing of failure mechanisms.

Key Points

JJoin Philip and Fred as they discuss a listing of all failure mechanisms that probably doesn’t exist due to sheer magnitude of the number of mechanisms that exist.

Topics include:

• We do not know of a catalog of all failure mechanism
• The technical literature may be the best current source
• Connecting life models in a meaningful way

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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Key Points

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss:

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss what makes reliability engineering attract ‘particular’ types of people.

Topics include:

• Curiosity with how things fail
• The ability to deal with and learn from failures
• The language of reliability that transcends spoken language or culture

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Abstract

Philip and Fred discussing how setting expectations impact reliability engineering tasks and results.

Key Points

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss
Topics include:

• The set of written and unwritten expectations for your role as a reliability engineer.
• The different set of expectations when reacting to problems or proactively avoiding them.
• Dealing with the often myopic view of what a reliability engineer should be doing.

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