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Fundamentals of Allocation

Feb 11, 2025

Fred Schenkelberg

Fred Schenkelberg, a reliability expert, shares valuable insights into allocation methods essential for achieving reliability goals in product design. He discusses how to effectively divide reliability targets among team members to foster collaboration. Fred highlights simple strategies for implementing reliability allocation, ensuring that teams work towards unified objectives. He also emphasizes the significance of understanding customer and business expectations in setting meaningful goals, enhancing overall system reliability.

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Understanding Allocation in Systems Engineering

00:00 • 56min

Fundamentals of Allocation

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

The dividing up of a reliability goal is one way to specify reliability goals for specific key elements of your product. Yet, that is not the only purpose of allocation. It can and should be a key practice to get your team working toward a common goal in a unified and collaborative manner.

Let's discuss a couple of easy ways to accomplish reliability allocation or apportionment, then examine a valuable way to use this tool to improve the chances of achieving your overall reliability goal.

This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 11 February 2025.

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