Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Quality during Design
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| Revolutionize Your Technical Presentations: Mastering the Assertion Evidence Model and the Six P's Framework | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:19:34 | |
Can the way you present technical information drastically impact decision-making? Absolutely. In our latest episode, discover how the assertion evidence model can revolutionize your presentations. Rather than relying on lifeless bullet points, this method encourages you to make clear recommendations at the top of each slide, coupled with compelling graphical evidence. We delve into the six P's—Perspective, Problem, Principle, Proposal, Proof, and Process—that serve as the backbone for structuring your presentation. These elements not only enhance learning but also facilitate more informed and productive discussions within your team. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Prioritizing Customer Satisfaction in Product Design (the Kano Model) | 22 Aug 2024 | 00:16:39 | |
How do you balance customer wants with project constraints? If your customer-facing teammates are saying our customers want this, that and the other thing, which ones do we prioritize over others? DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Exposing The Hidden Flaws of FMEA and Risk Matrices: Advancing Your Risk Assessment | 18 Apr 2024 | 00:18:10 | |
Unveil the hidden flaws of FMEA and risk matrices that could be skewing your analysis and decision-making. The episode emphasizes the importance of staying informed and adapting to new methods in the ever-evolving landscape of risk management. By doing so, professionals can ensure that they are not only equipped to handle current challenges but also prepared to meet the demands of the future. And for those of you eager to translate this newfound knowledge into practice, we spotlight an exceptional resource: "FMEA in Practice from plan to risk-based decision making," an Udemy course that promises to elevate your risk-based decision-making abilities. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Prevention Controls vs. Detection Controls | 23 Feb 2022 | 00:10:45 | |
Not all controls are equal, and we don't have to wait for something bad to happen to start designing with them. We compare different types of controls in product development and design engineering: Prevention Controls vs. Detection Controls. We review concepts, uses for controls, risk-based controls, and how to prioritize design efforts for the right controls. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Try this Method to Help with Complex Decisions (DMRCS) | 16 Feb 2022 | 00:09:12 | |
Your team is faced with a complex decision. Maybe it's complex because you have a lot of options or maybe it's complex because it's technically challenging and requires some testing. You may want to consider a structured approach: DMRCS. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Overlapping Ideas: Quality, Reliability, and Safety | 09 Feb 2022 | 00:07:39 | |
We’ve identified safety concerns about our product design. How concerned do we need to be about quality while we’re determining root causes? There is an intersection of quality, reliability, and safety. We talk about how they fit together. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Using SIPOC to Get Started | 02 Feb 2022 | 00:12:26 | |
We’re at the concept phases of our product design, trying to get our heads around the high-level steps that our users are going to take to use our product. We have an idea that we’ll have many different user groups interacting with our product, but we’re not so clear about the big picture – who is doing what, when and who needs what afterwards. To put it all together, we can help ourselves with a common quality tool: a SIPOC diagram. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese? | 26 Jan 2022 | 00:08:51 | |
There's a model that can help us visualize and consider the different barriers to harm: The Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation. Learn what makes up this model and how ideas are represented. There are also different ways that the model is being used today. How can we design for controls, policies, or actions that are part of the use of our product but outside of our control? We step through an example of a situation where we're thinking about our product design in this way.
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| Environmental Stress Testing for Robust Designs | 19 Jan 2022 | 00:09:25 | |
There is a rather large family of test methods associated with Qualitative Accelerated Tests. They're also known as RETs (or Reliability Enhancement Tests). Today, we’re focused on the models that are used to help us with the design. Awareness about these methods will help us with future test plans and project management. We talk about environmental stress testing and remind ourselves a little about HALT. Episode 6: HALT! Watch out for that weakest link. Episode 36: When to use DOE (Design of Experiments) Episode 37: Results-Driven Decisions, Faster: Accelerated Stress Testing as a Reliability Life Test DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Choosing a Confidence Level for Test using FMEA | 12 Jan 2022 | 00:05:36 | |
We’re developing requirements for our product, including setting reliability requirements. Or we’re setting acceptance criteria for our test plans. What confidence levels do we choose? We don’t have to blindly set them - we can base it off the risks of failure, using our FMEA (failure mode effects analysis). FMEA is a great tool for us to refer to, to help us choose a relevant confidence level by basing our decision on one or more metrics that the FMEA can provide. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Getting Started with FMEA - It All Begins with a Plan | 05 Jan 2022 | 00:07:49 | |
We’re starting to populate an FMEA table with our team. We get it started, but then we get stuck in disagreements. Or we think we finish it and then we don’t know what to do with it. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| 2021 Retrospective & Looking Ahead in 2022 | 29 Dec 2021 | 00:09:54 | |
It's almost a new calendar year! DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| How can 8D help solve my recurring problem? | 22 Dec 2021 | 00:11:04 | |
We talk about the 8D methodology, describe situations where we could benefit from it, list each of the 8 Disciplines, and compare it to PDSA and DMAIC. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Getting Information for Product Design with Fred Schenkelberg (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts) - Part 2 | 04 Apr 2024 | 00:24:11 | |
Dianna Deeney interviews Fred Schenkelberg about getting information for product design, focusing on reliability engineering in new products. This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts". Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team within engineering projects. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they're involved and work with product design engineering teammates. About Fred Fred and Dianna talk about
Fred's tales from the trenches offer a unique lens into the challenges and triumphs of creating products that not only work but last. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Mistake-Proofing - The Poka-Yoke of Usability | 15 Dec 2021 | 00:15:03 | |
How do we go about mistake-proofing our product design? There are steps we can take and a checklist we can use, based on a well-known manufacturing production method: poka-yoke. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Getting Comfortable with using Reliability Results | 08 Dec 2021 | 00:16:01 | |
We want to engage a reliability engineer in an analysis for our product design. They can help us produce some great information from which we can make decisions. You might be feeling uncomfortable about our team making a design decision based on those results. You don’t quite understand how the reliability engineer came up with the answer. You want to know where that information comes from so you can gauge the level of project risk of our decision. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| How to Self-Advocate for More Customer Face Time (and why it's important) | 01 Dec 2021 | 00:12:00 | |
There are many stories of design successes attributed to the right level of understanding of the customer. Product designers make decisions, daily, about how a product is going to look and perform. So, we need to really understand the customer. And, to really get the customer, engineers need to spend time with them. Sometimes, the business doesn’t want us to interact with the customer or doesn’t think it would be valuable. Objections include that we're not prepared for the user's environment, that we're too blunt or honest, or that we just overgeneralize what we learn, anyway. Or, there's a reluctance because of costs. Besides seeing these objections first hand, someone also listed them out in a published book! This shows that this is common across industries. Is that fair to design engineers? No matter if it’s fair or not. We can prepare ourselves to address those objections. We talk about how we can prepare ourselves to self-advocate for more customer face time. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Choosing Quality Tools (Mind Map vs. Flowchart vs. Spaghetti Diagram) | 24 Nov 2021 | 00:14:42 | |
Within our quality toolbox, there are a lot of graphical organizers. Some are better at fulfilling different goals than others. If we have a goal in mind, then we may choose a certain tool. However, we don’t want analysis paralysis about which tool is best to stop us from using any tool at all. I share my 3 general guidelines about choosing a graphical quality tool, how to draw them, and when to use them. Plus, we talk about 3 tools in particular, prompted by a social media ask: mind map, process flowchart, and spaghetti diagram. We get into what they are, when we're most likely to use them, and how they can be used for design. Episode 29 “Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts” talks about a lot of various analyses we can do with a process flow chart, like identifying important tasks, making the process more efficient, and performing a costs analysis. Episode 2 “My product works. Why don't they want it?” talks about a process flow chart for the user’s process and the appropriate level of detail we may need to identify the true customer needs and requirements for our design. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| The DFE Part of DFX (Design For Environment and eXcellence) | 17 Nov 2021 | 00:12:08 | |
Design for Excellence (DFX) is a concept that includes many initiatives, like design for usability, design for manufacturability and assembly, and design for environment and disassembly. It’s a focus on doing things right, exceeding customer expectations, optimizing what’s needed while minimizing costs, and continuous improvement. Today we take a deep dive on one of those aspects: design for environment (DFE), including design for disassembly. What are reasons that a business would consider this important, and how does a design engineer fit in? DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Results-Driven Decisions, Faster: Accelerated Stress Testing as a Reliability Life Test | 10 Nov 2021 | 00:15:28 | |
This episode talks about options for reliability life testing, specifically accelerated stress testing. We explore how accelerated stress testing is one subset of other reliability life testing, when it's a good idea, how we can approach doing it, and what we can do with the results. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| When to use DOE (Design of Experiments) | 03 Nov 2021 | 00:07:49 | |
What is design of experiments, or DOE? What do we use it for and what is it all about? We talk about when we might want to use it during the design cycle, and we do this without getting into all of the how-to and mathematical equations. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Design for User Tasks using an Urgent/Important Matrix | 27 Oct 2021 | 00:11:47 | |
We’ve collected all sorts of preliminary information about our users that we’re using for a new product design. We may be faced with so much data we’re not sure where to turn first, or what design feature is a priority. There’s a simple, 2-way matrix we can use to help us sort it all out: an urgent/important matrix. We may have used it to prioritize tasks for ourselves or as a management strategy for our team. But, we can also use it to evaluate the tasks our users take when using our product. We talk more about this matrix in the podcast, and we talk through an example of how to use it to evaluate user tasks. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Statistical vs. Practical Significance | 20 Oct 2021 | 00:05:56 | |
When we’re looking at results (like measures of a characteristic), we need to take care not to get too hung-up on what the statistics is trying to tell us. Yes, statistical tools are a good way for us to make decisions and the results can act as proof for us. But, there’s a practical, engineering side to results, too. We need to evaluate the statistical significance along with the practical significance. We review an example and how to document it. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| How many do we need to test? | 13 Oct 2021 | 00:15:07 | |
In this episode we review sampling for design tests. We talk through a generic thought process for choosing a statistically relevant sample size and propose some basics that we can all learn about to better understand sampling. Our goal is for us to be able to better talk through a sampling scenario with our quality and reliability engineering friends, and to better prepare for the information that they're going to want to know when asked, "How many do we need to test?" DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Getting Information for Product Design with Fred Schenkelberg (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts) - Part 1 | 21 Mar 2024 | 00:34:45 | |
Dianna Deeney interviews Fred Schenkelberg about getting information for product design, focusing on reliability engineering in new products. This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts". Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team within engineering projects. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they're involved and work with product design engineering teammates. About Fred Fred and Dianna talk about
Fred's tales from the trenches offer a unique lens into the challenges and triumphs of creating products that not only work but last. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Life Cycle Costing for Product Design Choices | 06 Oct 2021 | 00:10:58 | |
It costs our customers to own our designed products. It costs them initially to purchase it, but it also costs them to use it, maintain it, repair it, and eventually dispose of it. And it costs our company in ways too, like processing, training requirements for customers, and warranty repair costs. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| 5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements | 29 Sep 2021 | 00:12:32 | |
Good reliability requirements are going to drive our design decisions relating to the concept, the components, the materials, and other stuff. So, the moment to start defining reliability requirements is early in the design process. But, what makes a well-defined reliability requirement? There are five aspects it should cover: do you know what they are? We'll describe what makes a good reliability requirement and examples of common (but not good) requirements. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions | 22 Sep 2021 | 00:11:49 | |
We have good requirements for the reliability of our design. We also have a preliminary design with ideas of how we're going to manufacture it. Is our design idea good enough? Are there things we should do to improve its performance and reliability? For a physical product, there are three general stages in its life cycle. In many cases the failure rates of physical products can be represented by a reliability bathtub curve. This curve is really a plot of a hazard rate function, also known as a failure rate function. We talk about data collection in the early design phase, what types of failures are typical for each phase, and design decisions we may make to improve our reliability, based on the failure rate function we plot for our system. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts | 15 Sep 2021 | 00:12:06 | |
Flowcharting isn't just useful for manufacturing processes. We can use them in lots of ways to help us with design of products and to identify quality characteristics. After all, products are used by people, and the way in which they use them is a process.
We also talk about specific flowchart analyses and how they can be used to analyze the User Process for Design.
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| Design Tolerances Based on Economics (Using the Taguchi Loss Function) | 08 Sep 2021 | 00:09:21 | |
Genichi Taguchi related his measure of quality (variation from the target spec) with economics, called the Taguchi Loss Function. It’s used to calculate the cost (in money) of a certain deviation from a target value. It assumes that the farther our quality characteristic is from our target value, the more costly it is to us. We talk about how we can use the Taguchi Loss Functions as a way for us to set tolerances for our designs. Visit the podcast blog to get an interactive tool and the equations. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| How many controls do we need to reduce risk? | 02 Sep 2021 | 00:09:09 | |
When we've identified a risk to our design or user process - and that risk can pose a potential harm - how many controls do we need to add? DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Solving symptoms instead of causes? | 25 Aug 2021 | 00:10:18 | |
How we describe and approach the issues we need to solve can affect how we react to them. We know we’re supposed to be solving for root causes. But are we, instead, really just addressing symptoms? Are we celebrating the quick fix and then moving on without addressing the root of our issue? DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Do you have SMART ACORN objectives? | 18 Aug 2021 | 00:06:58 | |
Objectives are goalposts of what it is we’re trying to accomplish. Though they’re only a part of planning a project, if we don’t have well-defined and clear objectives, it could lead to us not having the stellar project results we want. Our objective should be a SMART ACORN. We review these two, complementing acronyms as ways to check that we're setting up our project for success. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Why Look to Standards | 11 Aug 2021 | 00:07:51 | |
Standards are everywhere, and lots of organizations are sourcing and creating them. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission held a workshop 2019 that recently made the news, again, in July 2021. It was called “Nixing the Fix: a Workshop on Repair Restrictions”. Here’s what it's about: manufacturers are not creating products with standard parts, or their design is created so its difficult for consumers to repair. Are standards part of the answer? How can we proactively use them them for design? Why should we? DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Getting the Voice of the Customer | 04 Aug 2021 | 00:06:42 | |
Before we can link customer needs to design, production, and service of our products, we need to listen to and understand the voice of the customer. We review 6 common VOC collection strategies, and talk about their pros and cons. We also discuss an affinity diagram process, which may help our team organize all of the data to get to customer needs. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Harnessing Team Insights for Risk Analysis using Probabilities | 08 Mar 2024 | 00:10:35 | |
Navigating the common roadblocks of team consensus on severity ratings during FMEA or hazard analysis can be challenging. But with the right strategies, your team can capture uncertainty and avoid the pitfall of too many conservative estimates that skew prioritization. Learn how a probability mass function can revolutionize your risk assessment, ensuring a smoother, more accurate process for all stakeholders involved. Reliability Engineering during Design, with Adam Bahret (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts) DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| The Way We Test Matters | 28 Jul 2021 | 00:07:43 | |
We can look at test methods like a product in and of itself. Because tests also have requirements and need to produce usable results, we validate against those requirements. Validating our test method also ensures that they are precise and accurate. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Designing Specs for QA | 21 Jul 2021 | 00:08:59 | |
Creating specs for suppliers and producers is generally at the forefront of our thoughts about the activity. But, it's also important to design for our QA friends, too, for inspection. We talk about what acceptance sampling is all about. We also step through a thought process for identifying and creating design features for inspection using FMEA. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Every Failure is a Gift | 14 Jul 2021 | 00:06:30 | |
When designs fail we can take on damaging mindsets while we're deciding our next steps, and this can lead us to bad decisions. We explore this and give some examples of pitfalls. We also talk about what to do within the design-realm to prepare for and combat those mindsets. Finally, I share my mantra when designing activities get tough with failures. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Understanding the Purposes behind Kaizen | 07 Jul 2021 | 00:07:37 | |
In the quality world, kaizen is a tool for continuous improvement under the umbrella of a Lean philosophy. The quality-tool kaizen is just one layer of a larger, overarching idea that we benefit from small, incremental improvements made consistently. Kaizen as a tool involves all employees of the company toward continuous improvement. The way kaizen events are done helps to promote the continuous improvement philosophy throughout the business through its effect on culture, time, proof, and teamwork. We talk more about how this all fits together in the podcast. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Fishbone Diagram: A Supertool to Understand Problems, Potential Solutions, and Goals | 30 Jun 2021 | 00:07:38 | |
A Fishbone Diagram is named for its looks because it resembles the bones of a fish drawn on paper. Its less creative names are Cause-and-Effect Diagram and Ishikawa Diagram. It's popularly known to help with root cause analysis. But, we can also use it to help with goals and to evaluate a potential solution. Why is it a Supertool? Just creating its headings helps us to better define our question. Writing it out as a graphical organizer helps organize jumbled thoughts. And, when paired with a 5W2H approach and the 5-whys, it can help us dig to the root causes. Listen to hear more about Fishbones. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| What is 'Production Equivalent' and Why Does it Matter? | 23 Jun 2021 | 00:10:48 | |
We're in the middle of our design process and we're getting some of the first parts in hand, either from prototyping or benchtops, or our manufacturing cell. Let's test them and finish our verification testing! Maybe we shouldn’t. We talk about the concept of production equivalent: what it means and when it's important to consider. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| About Visual Quality Standards | 16 Jun 2021 | 00:05:57 | |
"A picture is worth a thousand words" is an old saying, and it holds true! Visual standards, visual aids, and quality standards are a great tool, especially in design when communicating the limits of acceptability. This episode explores areas to capture this type of information and how it can be used not just for Quality Assurance and Production, but also for FMEA, root cause analysis, and future field defect investigations (to name a few). DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| Using the Pareto Principle and Avoiding Common Pitfalls | 08 Jun 2021 | 00:11:47 | |
The likeness of the Pareto Principle can be compared to Murphy's Law and the Peter Principle: it's a curious phenomenon. So, how did it make its way into quality? If using it to make decisions, there are some common pitfalls which can lead to delays in fixing a problem or even misdirect our efforts. So, what is it, and how can we use it for design? Get to know the Pareto Chart. If it's built and applied properly, it can help us prioritize: root cause analysis, new design features based on user input, or to help us tackle a problem that just seems too big to even start (just to name a few examples). We review the Pareto Principle, what a Pareto Chart is, what we need to consider when building one, and how we need to be careful when interpreting its results. Get extra graphics, links, and articles at this podcast blog, at www.qualityduringdesign.com. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| The Who's Who of your Quality Team | 02 Jun 2021 | 00:06:34 | |
Part of being an effective team member is knowing what the other teammates are responsible for doing. It's important because we need to know who to ask or interface with at certain points in our design process. This episode introduces (or reintroduces) some of our quality friends in design: Quality Engineer, Reliability Engineer, Supplier Quality, Calibration Technician, Quality Technician, and Quality Inspector. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| When it's Not Normal: How to Choose from a Library of Distributions | 26 May 2021 | 00:09:24 | |
When trying to fit a probability distribution to quantitative results, sometimes the normal probability doesn't fit. Minitab has a wealth of distributions to pick from. Do you just pick whichever one Minitab tells you fits the best? Maybe not. Just because the distribution fits your data doesn't mean it's a good one to use. We review my top 3 distributions for product testing and some other ones that come up but may not be appropriate to use. We'll also share what you need to think about when picking a distribution. The podcast blog includes useful links. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| From "Fall-Through" to "Follow-Through": A Proactive Strategy for Design | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:12:53 | |
Ever find yourself at the tail end of a project, swamped with unfinished tasks, and wondering where things went awry? Are there important recommended actions that the team was excited about that just didn't get done? These are the conundrums we tackle in this episode of Quality During Design, with a special nod to Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Be Useful" for his proactive approach to work. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| What are TQM, QFD, Six Sigma, and Lean? | 19 May 2021 | 00:13:36 | |
You may have heard of QMS (Quality Management Systems) but are not sure how your activities fit in. Or, you’ve heard of QFD, ISO 9000, Six Sigma, Lean...these cryptic names that you’re not sure what they’re about. You may be doing activities under one of your company’s procedures and asking, “Why am I spending time on this?" Sometimes it’s good to re-orient to the big picture. That’s what we’ll be doing in this episode: reorienting to the QMS. We'll also talk about some of the standard Quality Management System philosophies:
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| The Designer's Important Influence on Monitoring After Launch | 12 May 2021 | 00:10:46 | |
Because of your role as a designer in product development, you have great input into the planning for what field (or real-use) data should be monitored for your product. We talk about this as post market surveillance, which is a typical term used for medical devices. This episode talks about how the post market surveillance engine follows the PDSA (plan-do-study-act) continuous improvement cycle, some expectations of post market surveillance systems, and what inputs designers have in its planning. DISCOVER YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS: UNLOCK YOUR IMPACT BI-WEEKLY EPISODES NEWSLETTER SELF-PACED COURSE FMEA in Practice: from Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making is enrolling students now. Join over 300 students: Click Here. ABOUT DIANNA | |||
| How to Handle Competing Failure Modes | 05 May 2021 | 00:08:22 | |
If we're not careful with or ignore failure modes, we can choose the wrong reliability model or statistical distribution. If our product performance is close to the required limits and/or we need a very accurate model, this could be a big problem. We talk about the importance of failure modes and step-through a tensile-test example to explore these other topics:
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