Prepared this presentation for the RMS Partnership 2011 Workshop. Achieving Highly Reliable & Safe Systems at Best Cost from FMS Reliability
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Ensure Product Safety and Reliability
Invited to present at the first ASQ Sino-US Quality Summit March 11th, 2011 in Shen Zhen China. Pretty impressive event and enjoyed the trip and people. Ensure Product Safety and Reliability from FMS Reliability
Reliability Integration
Presented at the 2005 Applied Reliability Symposium Reliability Integration Across the Product Life Cycle from FMS Reliability Built and gave this presentation multiple times for OALC clients – pretty good summary of how to approach reliability engineering tasks within an organization. Reliability integration across the product life cycle from FMS Reliability
Misuses of MTBF
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
Assessment of Organizational Reliability Capability
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
Perils of an Old Metric MTBF
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
5 Ways to Reduce Warranty Costs
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 […]
Trapped by MTBF ARS 2007
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. […]
Landing a Consulting Job with three questions
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
2011 Status of Reliability Education
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