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Quality during Design — 194 episodes
Beyond the Pipeline: Rethinking Engineering Careers with Cassie Leonard (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
The Quiet System: Why Your Lessons Learned Aren’t Sticking
Shannon Cummings on Why Marketing Should Be in the Room Before the First Prototype (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Stop Being a Witness to Decisions That You Should be Helping to Shape
Karli Auble THRIVEs: Positive Psychology Meets Engineering Rigor (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Constraints Unlock Creativity: Why Frameworks Beat Blank Slates in Product Concept Design
Cut Through The Design Fog
The Design Fog is Derailing Your Project
Expected Value Makes Uncertainty Manageable
Define Kill Criteria to Avoid Zombie Projects
Confidence is a Dial: Turn It with Evidence, Not Guesswork
Raise Your Confidence by Strategically Stacking Evidence
Stop Risk Theater, Start Real Decisions
How to Choose Risk Tools That Actually Help Decisions
Design clarity through cadence: aligning podcasts, Substack, and a playbook for teams
QDD Redux: Prioritizing Customer Satisfaction in Product Design (the Kano Model)
Beyond Requirements: How Quality Methods Provide Actionable Design Inputs
Map the User Journey: Design for Seamless Experiences
Keven Wang’s 4-Step Journey to AI-Powered Quality Control (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Design to Avoid Problems: Focusing on Symptoms Early On
Slow Down to Speed Up: Jake McKee's Guide to AI Innovation (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Uncovering Customer Desires: Understanding Benefits in Concept Development
Blank Flipcharts Don't Make Magic, But Templates Do
Why Your Cross-Functional Team Isn't Communicating Effectively (And How to Fix It)
The Hidden Costs of Poor Concept Development in Product Design
Brighten Your Creative Spark
QDD Redux: Choosing a Confidence Level for Test using FMEA
AI in Design: Coming Full Circle
QDD Redux: 5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements
Supplier Agreements: The Good, The Bad, and The Quality
Practice Makes Improvement in Subjective Probability Estimations
QDD Redux: Quality Tools are Legos of Development (and Their 7 Uses)
Cultivating a Culture of Craftsmanship within Quality Systems
The Mighty Power of Mini Reports
Celebrating a Year of Insights
Social Dynamics within Engineering with Yakira Mirabito (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
How Engineers Changed Thanksgiving
Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, AI, and VR in Design Engineering
Improving communication and the workplace with Meagan Pollock (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Myths of Product Development - Part 2
Myths of Product Development - Part 1
Engineering Careers: A Panel Discussion with ‘Brilliant!’ and ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’'
Revolutionize Your Technical Presentations: Mastering the Assertion Evidence Model and the Six P's Framework
Prioritizing Customer Satisfaction in Product Design (the Kano Model)
Maximizing Meeting Value and Participation
Data Visualization Tips to Improve Analysis Skills
Effective Team Meetings: From Chaos to Cohesion
Unraveling QA, QC, Quality Assistance, and Quality 4.0
Simplifying Probabilities for Better Decision Making
From Solo to Collaboration: Lessons from Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura and Dale Carnegie
Bridging Triumph and Trial: A Panel Discussion about Engineering with 'To Engineer is Human' and 'The Wright Brothers'
What is DFSS and How does Quality during Design Relate?
Exposing The Hidden Flaws of FMEA and Risk Matrices: Advancing Your Risk Assessment
Getting Information for Product Design with Fred Schenkelberg (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts) - Part 2
Getting Information for Product Design with Fred Schenkelberg (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts) - Part 1
Harnessing Team Insights for Risk Analysis using Probabilities
From "Fall-Through" to "Follow-Through": A Proactive Strategy for Design
Welcome Back! New, upcoming opportunities with FMEA and Quality during Design
Taking a Brief Pause: Reflecting on Quality During Design's Journey and Preparing for What's Next
Timing Reliability in Product Design, with Jeffrey Lewis (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Driving Effective Conversations-Prioritizing and Decision-Making at Concept Development and Beyond
Driving Effective Conversations-Three Major Aspects to Consider for DfX
Driving Effective Conversations-Taking the Lead in Working Meetings
Supply Chain Management during Design, with Kevin Bailey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
The Strategic Gamechanger: Quality during (Product) Design
Leveraging Proven Frameworks for Concept Development
Understanding Cross-Functional Collaboration
Exploring the Problem Space: A Key Principle for Robust Product Design and Project Success
Exploring Product Development and AI Through Literature: Insights from 'Loonshots', 'AI 2041', 'Quit', and 'How Big Things Get Done'
Streamlining Design: The Power of Urgency and Importance
Information Development in Design, with Scott Abel – Part 2 (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Information Development in Design, with Scott Abel – Part 1 (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Crafting Effective Technical Documents for the Engineering Field
Decoding FMEA for Product Complaint Investigation
Reliability Life Testing in Design: A Deep Dive into Accelerated Stress Testing
Journey from Production to Consumption: Enhancing Product Reliability
QDD Redux: Choose Reliability Goals for Modules
Reliability Engineering during Design, with Adam Bahret (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
QDD Redux: 5 Options to Manage Risks during Product Engineering
Instant Glory of Product Design
What to do about Virtual Meetings
QDD Redux: How to self-advocate for more customer face time (and why it's important)
Engineering with Receptivity, with Sol Rosenbaum (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Don't wish for cross-functional buy-in on product designs - plan to get it!
Before You Start Engineering Solutions, Do This
QDD Redux Ep. 4: Statistical vs. Practical Significance
QDD Redux Ep. 3: When It's Not Normal: How to Choose from a Library of Distributions
QDD Redux Ep. 2: How to Handle Competing Failure Modes
QDD Redux Ep. 1: How Many Do We Need to Test?
The Fundamental Thing to Know from Statistics for Design Engineering
What to do for Effective and Efficient Working Meetings
Get Design Inputs with Flowcharts
Quality Tools are Legos of Development (and Their 7 Uses)
Lessons Learned from Coffee Pods Stories
Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)
Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development
Brainstorming within Design Sprints
After the 'Storm: Compare and Prioritize Ideas
After the 'Storm: Pareto Voting and Screening Methods
After the 'Storm: Group and Explore Ideas
Product Design with Brainstorming, with Emily Haidemenos (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)
Ways to Gather Ideas with a Team
The Spirits of Technical Writing Past, Present, and Future
The Gifts Others Bring
Next Steps after Suprising Test Results
Choose Reliability Goals for Modules
Start a System Architecture Diagram Early
Why Yield Quality at the Front-End of Product Development
QDD Book Cast
Engineering in the Color Economy
Getting to Great Designs
Get clarity on goals with a continuum
Variable Relationships: Correlation and Causation
Use Meetings to Add Productivity
Ways to Partner with Test Engineers
What do we do with FMEA early in design concept?
A Severity Scale based on Quality Dimensions
Use a Force Field Analysis to Understand Nuances
Getting Use Information without a Prototype
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Supplements Test
2 Lessons about Remote Work for Design Engineers
Always Plot the Data
Supplier Control Plans and Design Specs
Use FMEA to Design for In-Process Testing
Use FMEA to Choose Critical Design Features
Get Unstuck: Expand and Contract Our Problem
Get Unstuck: Reframe our Problem
5 Options to Manage Risks during Product Engineering
Prioritizing Technical Requirements with a House of Quality
Gemba for Product Design Engineering
Product Design from a Data Professional Viewpoint, with Gabor Szabo (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)
How Does Reliability Engineering Affect (Not Just Assess) Design?
How to use FMEA for Complaint Investigation
3 Tips for Planning Design Reviews
Product Design from a Marketing Viewpoint, with Laura Krick (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)
UFMEA vs. DFMEA
Design Input & Specs vs. Test & Measure Capability
ALT vs. HALT
Quality as a Strategic Asset vs. Quality as a Control
Design Specs vs. Process Control, Capability, and SPC
Internal Customers vs. External Customers
Discrete Data vs. Continuous Data
Prevention Controls vs. Detection Controls
Try this Method to Help with Complex Decisions (DMRCS)
Overlapping Ideas: Quality, Reliability, and Safety
Using SIPOC to Get Started
Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese?
Environmental Stress Testing for Robust Designs
Choosing a Confidence Level for Test using FMEA
Getting Started with FMEA - It All Begins with a Plan
2021 Retrospective & Looking Ahead in 2022
How can 8D help solve my recurring problem?
Mistake-Proofing - The Poka-Yoke of Usability
Getting Comfortable with using Reliability Results
How to Self-Advocate for More Customer Face Time (and why it's important)
Choosing Quality Tools (Mind Map vs. Flowchart vs. Spaghetti Diagram)
The DFE Part of DFX (Design For Environment and eXcellence)
Results-Driven Decisions, Faster: Accelerated Stress Testing as a Reliability Life Test
When to use DOE (Design of Experiments)
Design for User Tasks using an Urgent/Important Matrix
Statistical vs. Practical Significance
How many do we need to test?
Life Cycle Costing for Product Design Choices
5 Aspects of Good Reliability Goals and Requirements
Using Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions
Types of Design Analyses possible with User Process Flowcharts
Design Tolerances Based on Economics (Using the Taguchi Loss Function)
How many controls do we need to reduce risk?
Solving symptoms instead of causes?
Do you have SMART ACORN objectives?
Why Look to Standards
Getting the Voice of the Customer
The Way We Test Matters
Designing Specs for QA
Every Failure is a Gift
Understanding the Purposes behind Kaizen
Fishbone Diagram: A Supertool to Understand Problems, Potential Solutions, and Goals
What is 'Production Equivalent' and Why Does it Matter?
About Visual Quality Standards
Using the Pareto Principle and Avoiding Common Pitfalls
The Who's Who of your Quality Team
When it's Not Normal: How to Choose from a Library of Distributions
What are TQM, QFD, Six Sigma, and Lean?
The Designer's Important Influence on Monitoring After Launch
How to Handle Competing Failure Modes
About Using Slide Decks for Technical Design Reviews
Remaking Risk-Based Decisions: Allowing Ourselves to Change our Minds.
Need to innovate? Stop brainstorming and try a systematic approach.
HALT! Watch out for that weakest link.
The Designer's Risk Analysis affects Business, Projects, and Suppliers
A big failure and too many causes? Try this analysis.
Why your design inputs need to include quality & reliability.
My product works. Why don't they want it?
How to choose the right improvement model.