Learning about Failures
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Kirk and Fred discussing the idea of listing of failure mechanisms and their different viewpoints on how we learn some of the common failure mechanisms
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SOR 825 Learning about Failures
SOR 824 Single Use Product Reliability
Single Use Product Reliability
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Dianna and Fred discussing single use product reliability. For products that are used once and then disposed or recycled, do we need to consider and plan for their reliability? The short answer: yes! They talk about the things to consider with single use products.
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MC 002 How Materials Engineering Fits In
How Materials Engineering Fits In
I discuss my education, my experience working in a semiconductor factory and as part of a product design group, and the many different product design and manufacturing activities I was involved in as a metals engineer.
QDD 090 The Gifts Others Bring
The Gifts Others Bring
What are the gifts others bring to new product development?
It takes intentional actions and acknowledgement to understand how to bring design inputs into our designs from other people.
We consider project teams like a neighborhood and how this frame of mind can help our designs.
SOR 823 Stresses and Mechanism
Stresses and Mechanism
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Dianna and Fred discussing a listener question about understanding stresses and mechanism of failures of a new design.
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SOR 822 Identify Weak Points
Identify Weak Points
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Kirk and Fred discussing how a good reliability development process is to identify the weaknesses to improve a product including a recent fence repair at Kirk’s house.
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QDD 089 Next Steps after Surprising Test Results
Next Steps after Surprising Test Results
During product development, we’re consistently looking for ways to learn more about the product in order to make design decisions. Some of that comes from test.
What do we do when our test results are…surprising?
We talk about some next steps I typically take when tasked with surprises.
SOR 821 Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias
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Kirk and Fred discussing the paths they took in Reliability Engineering, how our past experience shaped our view of the best methods for improving the reliability of systems, and how we learn new information on reliability issues.
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SOR 820 Failure to Adjust
Failure to Adjust
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Greg and Fred discussing why people have a hard time adjusting and pivoting in times of uncertainty, much like what we all experience today.
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MC 001 Metal Conversations Introduction
Metal Conversations Introduction
This episode is an introduction to the Metal Conversations podcast. Michael Pfeifer from Industrial Metallurgists, LLC introduces himself and gives a brief description of what the podcast series will be about.
Michael Pfeifer is a metallurgist and metals engineer. He works with design and manufacturing clients to help with component materials selection, manufacturing process development, supplier evaluation, failure analysis and root cause analysis.
He received a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a Professional Engineer, licensed in Illinois.
He’s wrote a book – Materials Enabled Designs. It teaches how to select materials that optimize product performance, reliability, and cost.
For more information about Michael go to https://www.imetllc.com/about/
Industrial Metallurgists offer metallurgy and metals engineering consulting and training. The training is geared to design, manufacturing, and quality engineers. More information about Industrial Metallurgists’ services and training is at https://www.imetllc.com/
QDD 088 Choose Reliability Goals for Modules
Choose Reliability Goals for Modules
We have a reliability target for our system. But we’re not meeting it.
To avoid this scenario, what is something we can do in early development?
When we’re figuring out our concept, we can better learn about our options. We can work with Reliability Engineers to understand what we know, the risk in what we don’t know, and to prioritize reliability of the modules to be able to meet the reliability of our whole system.
We talk about using reliability allocation to help us choose reliability goals for modules of our product design. And we talk about its limitations.
RM 110: A Wrap-Up of the Reliability Matters 2022 Season
A Wrap-Up of the Reliability Matters 2022 Season
On this episode, there are no guests, and no specific topics. I would like to use this opportunity to thank my guests, our syndication partners, and, of course, my audience we’re making this podcast so successful. We have a full season ahead in 2023 and I’m excited to share those episodes with you. Please keep your questions and topics suggestions coming. Send them to. mike@mikekonrad.com.
A huge shout-out to my 2022 guests:
Joel Scutchfield
Brian O’Leary
Tony Lentz
Mike Adamson
Greg Papandrew
Kevin Huo
Michelle Ogihara
Marco Sanchez
Colin Harper
Dr. Kunal Shah
Dr. Ron Laskey
Jim Hall
Claire Hotvedt
Tom Watson
Phil Zarrow
Keith Bryant
Dr. David Bernard
David Kruidhof
Robert Boguski
Jen Fijalkowski
Graham Naisbitt
Matt Kelly
David Raby
Ed Stone
Thomas Ricciardelli
Dr. Martin Anselm
Julie Silk
Raiyo Aspandiar.
David Greenman
Michael Mchale
Randy Cherry
Dr. Chuck Bauer
David Graham
SOR 819 Supply Chain Tradeoffs
Supply Chain Tradeoffs
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Greg and Fred discussing the tradeoffs in reshoring. Many companies are considering bringing design and manufacturing back to the US or host country.
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SOR 818 Improving or Suing
Improving or Suing
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Chris and Fred discuss whether you want to lay blame (i.e. sue) or improve reliability? Don’t be confused … accountability is important. But that doesn’t replace everyone ‘owning’ the end result.
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QDD 087 Start a System Architecture Diagram Early
Start a System Architecture Diagram Early
New product development projects are really exciting at the start.
Even though we know very little about what the final product is going to look like, we can still use a quick graphical tool to help us direct our engineering attention.
We talk about ways to use a very simple System Architecture Diagram to help us get started and ways we can continue to iterate on it throughout development to help us communicate and make decisions.
