My Papers and Presentations

A collection of my published papers and presentations.

A simple presentation about how common mis-understandings around MTBF occur. If you know of other ways it can be mis-understood and have a good story about it – let me know and let’s share the information so others can spot and hopefully avoid the problems. Misuses of MTBF from FMS Reliability

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This short article highlights the IEEE Reliability Program Standard 1332 as became available. I enjoyed working on this standard and it was a good team of folks that build a very useful standard. Assessment of Organizational Reliability Capability from FMS Reliability

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Presented this paper at the 2008 ASQ World Quality Congress International in Houston, Texas. Full room and plenty of fun with the NoMTBF buttons. Perils of an Old Metric: MTBF from FMS Reliability

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This short tutorial was presented on March 6th, 2012 at the Warranty Chain Management Conference in Orlando, Florida. Pretty good crowd and great conference. The audience understood that simply tracking warranty was not sufficient, it was also important to learn what and how to take action to avoid warranty expenses. WCM 2012 5 Ways to […]

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On Friday June 22nd, 2007 I presented to at the Applied Reliability Symposium in San Diego. It was a previous ARS conference that I ran across a room full of professionals that also had experienced frustration with the general use and mis-understanding of MTBF. Great discussion the a precursor to the nomtbf.com site and movement. […]

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I presented this talk at the local Consulting Network of Silicon Valley in 2010. It was fun, led to some great discussion and let me use a few of rock climbing images. Landing a Consulting Job with three questions from FMS Reliability

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This article was part of the IEEE Reliability Society 2010 Annual Report. I updated and expanded in 2012 here. Do let me know if there are other education opportunities or channels out there that focus on reliability engineering. I’m always looking for ways to update this report. Status of Reliability Education 2011 from FMS Reliability

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Fred Schenkelberg and Angela Lo, Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2011, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 25 January 2011. The paper. Equipment Availability Analysis from FMS Reliability And the presentation. Equipment Availability Analysis from FMS Reliability And, as presented at the 2010 Fall Technical Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Equipment Availability Analysis from FMS Reliability

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G.A. Whitmore and Fred Schenkelberg, Modelling Accelerated Degradation Data Using Wiener Diffusion With A Time Scale Transformation, Lifetime Data Analysis, 3, 27-45, Kluwer Academic Publications, The Netherlands, 1997. My very first work in reliability engineering and very first technical paper. Modeling Accelerated Degradation Data Using Wiener Diffusion With A Time Scale Transformation from FMS Reliability

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Fred Schenkelberg, Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2012, Reno, NV, 26 January 2012. Here is the paper. RAMS 2012 Determine and Design the Best ALT from FMS Reliability And, the presentation. Determine and design the best ALT from FMS Reliability

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