Reliability Leader with Adam Bahret

Wayne Johnson from Southside Partners LLC joins me to discuss the challenges in Semiconductor Design, Manufacturing, and Reliability. How do we scale up the production to meet the demands of the customer while maintaining sufficient Reliability? Listen more to this insightful conversation. Any questions or comments: Wayne Johnson

Today's episode is Part 3 of Holy Trinity of Reliability Testing. We discuss Reliability Growth Testing (RGT). Why do this test? How to do? What are the benefits? Check out other episodes of this 3-part series .

Today's episode is Part 2 of 3 of Holy Trinity of Reliability Testing. We discuss Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT). Why do this test? How to do? What are the benefits? Check out other episodes of this 3-part series .

Today's episode is about Accelerated Life Testing (ALT). This is considered one among the three testing methods that are considered the Holy Trinity of Reliability Testing. Why do this test? How to do? What are the benefits?

Jeff Gould joins the podcast again - this time to share his stories on different Management styles practiced in the industry. Management is a key part of Reliability Engineering projects & this episode gives insights to explore & experiment.

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 da...

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.

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.

Charles Jablonski from Mueller Water Products talking about Accelerated Life Testing (ALT). Example cases, Learnings, and how it ties within the Product development program.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 imp...

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. 

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.   

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 "Handb...

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. 

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. 

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...

Cam Page takes some time from her exhibit at the RAMS conference to discuss HALT testing and how it has grown in multiple industries.

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."

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.

Rick Sprenkle and I discuss how different personality types handle unforeseen issues when they arise.