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Outsourcing or ‘Out of sight, out of mind?’
I was having a lunch meeting with a project manager, and the topic of outsourcing came up. Specifically, outsourcing the manufacture of a...
Aug 9, 2021
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Boeing, Boeing... Bugger. Now it's the Starliner.
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How to not suck at probability and statistics.
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Aug 13, 2024
And now to the biggest IT outage ever! (The Crowdstrike Incident...)
Aug 8, 2024
Preventative maintenance and the toxic need to "do something."
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No… 89 percent of failures are NOT random.
Jul 30, 2024
Boeing is Steering Harder into its Spiral of Death
Apr 17, 2024
Only People Who Are Biased Think They're Not Biased
Apr 17, 2024
Leadership and the Failure of the Apple Car
Apr 17, 2024
5 Reasons You Need to Allocate Reliability (and 1 Reason You Don't).
Nov 27, 2023
You Can't 'Contract' Your Way to Reliability.
Nov 20, 2023
So it's 'COTS' - Of course you need to demand that it be reliable!
Nov 13, 2023
Routine Things Risk Becoming Routine
Nov 6, 2023
How Company Visions Make or Break Reliability
Oct 30, 2023
Do Degrees Hurt or Help?
Oct 23, 2023
Reliability...and Why Asking 'Are We There Yet' Doesn't Work
Oct 16, 2023
Business Lessons from the European Super League Atrocity
Oct 9, 2023
The "3 P's" - Avoiding the Most Common Pitfalls of Establishing a Reliability Program.
Oct 2, 2023
Manufacturing Notes - What is Statistical Process Control (SPC)?
Sep 25, 2023
Relational Contracting: A Breath of Fresh Air or something that has Always Been Blowing in the Wind?
Sep 18, 2023
Complex Processes Become Your Product (Not Your Actual Product)
Sep 11, 2023
Find me the statistics that I like to believe the most...
Sep 4, 2023
The (smaller) carbon footprints of reliability engineering
Aug 27, 2023
10 Reasons you Need to do Reliability Engineering
Oct 4, 2021
How Do I Set-Up My Reliability Engineering Career?
Sep 27, 2021
'Artificial deep machine learning intelligence' is never your first option
Sep 20, 2021
When People Do Right - Does the Right Thing Happen?
Sep 13, 2021
‘Making’ and ‘checking’ reliability are very, very different
Sep 6, 2021
Same old reliability lessons from amazing new (solar cell) technologies
Aug 30, 2021
Red Flags, Autonomous System Safety, and the importance of looking back before looking forward
Aug 23, 2021
Reliability happens when you become impatient and selfish
Aug 16, 2021
Outsourcing or ‘Out of sight, out of mind?’
Aug 9, 2021
The Root Cause of a Failure is Always a Decision
Aug 2, 2021
How to Change Design Reviews from Tedious to Awesome
Jul 26, 2021
Words are important. But not as important as leadership
Jul 19, 2021
How to not do supplier relationships
Jul 12, 2021
The Stresa-Mottarone cable car crash is a lesson on culture
Jul 5, 2021
Do you ‘want’ something … or just ‘like the idea of it?’
Jun 28, 2021
Engineering Reports Need to Be Like Bad Movies - Give The Ending Away At The Start
Jun 11, 2021
The Russian Concorde … and why you haven’t heard of it
Jun 11, 2021
Announcing our new website!
Jun 11, 2021
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