In this special episode, Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva joins us to talk about her work - Reinvention. What is reinvention? Why this framework is needed? and how it can be applied to the product development process. Resources from Dr. Nadya: To test some of the reinvention tools with a community of 500+ professionals from all over the world, join the free live online Easy Reinvention Lab here. Get more data and insights shared by Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva, download the free 85-page preview of her latest bo...
Sep 11, 2023•21 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Adam sits down with Guest Miki Rosenberg, VP of Strategic Technologies, Medtronic Surgical Robotics. In this episode, they discuss how to introduce & effectively execute Reliability Testing in a high-priority, fast-paced development program.
Sep 04, 2023•20 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Guest Nelson Rego shares his perspectives on how to bring Reliability Culture into product development. Adam & Nelson discuss how to tie in specific outcomes of tasks to program goals, what to measure, and how to balance development with Time-to-market pressure.
Aug 28, 2023•19 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Charles Jablonski from Mueller Water Products talking about Accelerated Life Testing (ALT). Example cases, Learnings, and how it ties within the Product development program.
Aug 21, 2023•20 min•Season 6Ep. 3
In this informative episode, Charles Recchia shares his research paper on a new method to perform the Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT) with fewer sample units & higher statistical confidence. Adam & Charles discuss the method's implications on the overall Reliability program. Reference Links: Charles Recchia IIRW Conference Paper ASQ RRD Webinar on Chi-square corrections...
Aug 14, 2023•18 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Episode Guest Leyla Mirmomen shares her journey to starting Optimuos and how her Engineering background has helped identify & provide services to clients. Adam explores how physics-based simulations could be applied to Reliability Engineering.
Aug 07, 2023•21 min•Season 6Ep. 1
In this free flowing conversation, Dan Burrows shares his knowledge on Design of Experiments (DOE). What are the fundamentals & how is it being used in Relibaility Engineering.
Apr 24, 2023•27 min•Season 5Ep. 12
How do you approach Reliability Testing for a bearing on a Robot System? This short episode discusses the different aspects to consider. L10 life is commonly quoted as a metric for bearing life. But to measure Reliability with confidence, individual operating conditions & system layouts should be considered.
Apr 17, 2023•6 min•Season 5Ep. 11
A quick refresher on Weibull Analysis for Reliability Engineering. What is a Weibull plot? How are the results used in understanding the failure rates of the population? The episode explains a simple way to understand the complexity of the plots.
Apr 10, 2023•9 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Red Cell is an idea used in the military to create an elite unit of outsiders to intentionally launch an attack on oneself to uncover weakness. Similar techniques are used in hacking competitions, Bug finding bounties, & banking sector security. How can we adapt this for Reliability Engineering & use it during product development? The episode explores some of the ways it can be used to improve product reliability.
Apr 03, 2023•8 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Andre and Adam discuss how reliability engineers grow in their careers and find sources for educational content. Andre shares how RAMS conference is different, how to teach reliability, and what has been his own journey. Andre Kleyner is a renowned author and editor for the Wiley series on Reliability & Quality.
Mar 27, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Neil Dotenbaugh from ESPEC shares real stories of how Time-to-market pressures teams to release the product without completing reliability tests and how HALT test results can inform the design team. We also discuss how to accelerate the parameters in accelerated testing and his latest conference paper: Doing HALT with fewer samples.
Mar 20, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 7
In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Kishor Trivedi from Duke University shares how software is a major cause of failures in complex systems. Shares ideas on how to treat software as a wearing-out component, how to test for failures, identify improvement areas, and plan software maintenance. He also stresses the need for more research on software reliability failures. Resource: Book "Handbook of Software Aging and Rejuvenation"
Mar 13, 2023•15 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Felix Chen talks about how he got into the Reliability Engineering field and his current experience managing product failures. What metrics to use for reliability? How to best describe it to other stakeholders? How do metrics drive the program? He also highlights the importance of Statistics, and how it can be used to quantify the uncertainty in predicting Reliability.
Mar 06, 2023•19 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Lots of resources are available to learn Reliability Engineering, how do you choose the best Reliability program to train your team? In this episode, Chris Jackson breaks down the factors to consider when choosing to invest in training programs, insights on whom to train among Organizational teams, and spills the beans on his next educational project.
Feb 27, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 4
ESG goals are the talk at board meetings these days. In this episode, Charles Bourland from L3 Harris shares how Reliability engineering can contribute to the organizational ESG goals. Recorded live from RAMS Conference, Charles shares how we got started in Reliability and how his latest exploration into the world of ESG has taught about the wide impacts of reliability tools. Charles can be reached at: Charles Bourland | LinkedIn...
Feb 20, 2023•17 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Cam Page takes some time from her exhibit at the RAMS conference to discuss HALT testing and how it has grown in multiple industries.
Feb 13, 2023•14 min•Season 5Ep. 2
I was very fortunate to have Dr Wayne Nelson as a guest on Reliability Leader. We both attended the RAMS conference in Orlando this year and he was gracious enough to discuss his upcoming new edition of his 2003 book "How to Analyze Recurring Events Data."
Feb 06, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Setting out to build a new reliability department taught me a lot about the right way to integrate reliability into product development. I almost learned the really hard way, but luckily corrected my path in time.
Nov 21, 2022•13 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Rick Sprenkle and I discuss how different personality types handle unforeseen issues when they arise.
Nov 14, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Tim Looney and I discuss the different unofficial roles we find in all organizations including the "pioneers and the settlers." Tim Looney is the President of NorthEast Biomedical . A medical product design firm.
Nov 07, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Rick and I discuss some of the common personality types we find on design teams. The dynamics and interactions that unfold have a lot to do with how well a program runs.
Oct 31, 2022•21 min•Season 4Ep. 9
The Motto for the Lightening Fast Reliability method is "Robust Ready and Risk Guidance." In this episode, we discuss what Risk Guidance is.
Oct 24, 2022•12 min•Season 4Ep. 8
The Motto for the Lightening Fast Reliability method is "Robust Ready and Risk Guidance." In this episode we discuss what Robust Ready is.
Oct 17, 2022•17 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In product development we so often, or almost always, have a show stopper issue. This is a technical challenge we can't easily overcome or a simple problem with a difficult solution late in teh game. What do we do? Tim Looney, President of Northeast Biomedical , and I discuss some experiences and ideas on how to address it.
Oct 10, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Tom Dutremble, CEO of Acorn Product Development, joins us to talk about common pitfall and best practices in electro-mechanical product design. More about Acorn Product Development can be found at www.acronpd.com
Oct 03, 2022•20 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Do we consider all the ways preventative maintenance can effect design strategy?
Sep 25, 2022•14 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Rich Harpster , founder of harpcosystems.com, joins us to talk about doing FMEA's with purpose. He has created methods that better connect the true design process to the FMEA method. The result is an FMEA team that is enthusiastic and feels purpose in using the tool. Rich can be contacted at richard.harpster@harpcosystems.com.
Sep 19, 2022•26 min
So often we identify leadership talent in technical people. They are marked for advancement but not always given the training needed to succeed. Henry Chidgey and I discuss how this process can be done different.
Sep 12, 2022•18 min
The fourth season of Reliability Leader has a them of "The Human Side of Engineering." In our first episode Jeff Gould joins me to discuss how language can have a tremendous effect on the success of technical programs.
Sep 05, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 1
