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Chris and Fred discuss the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) … A US Department of Defense vehicle that can perhaps teach us a lot about reliability (especially in the field of military and defense).
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From an engineering perspective, what is a successful product? In this episode I discuss what I think it is and the influence of metals engineering on product success.
I also discuss three new resources for learning about successful component design, designing for reliability, and various metallurgy and metals engineering topics that apply to product design and manufacturing.
This episode is a complement to articles and podcasts available on the Industrial Metallurgists website.
Dianna Deeney interviews Adam Bahret about reliability engineering during design: how product design engineers and product development leadership can incorporate reliability engineering.
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. [Read more…]
Covid taught us the importance of managing suppliers, especially those from China and Asia. Risk became the top supply management concern over supplier delivery, quality, and cost. For example, just-in-time deliveries became just-in-case—many common sense ideas of lean changed. Incoming, in-process, and final inventories rose. Overall costs increased. Risk became the overarching concern for managing suppliers. [Read more…]
Chris and Fred discuss what should a reliability engineer ‘do’? Isn’t this obvious? … is it?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the use of backups and system redundancy in the design of electronics for increased reliability.
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Part of Quality during Design is using reliability engineering as part of the design process.
We’re warming up to the topic this week with a QDD Redux episode – pulling an episode from our archive from last year that’s a good overview of some things we’ll be getting more into.
Next week, I’m interviewing a Reliability Engineer as part of the series A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts. You won’t want to miss it!
So, let’s stretch and warm-up to Reliability during Design!
Everyone ‘knows’ why we do reliability engineering … right? Customer experience. Organization reputation. Reduced warranty claims ten years from now. But these are boring reasons that really don’t motivate me to take reliability seriously now. Why should I invest so much time into an activity that benefits the ‘company’ or the ‘customer’ in the future but won’t make an immediate difference when my boss gives me a ‘gold star’ on my next performance appraisal? Besides, no one person is responsible for reliability, so any effort I invest in reliability will be ‘lost in the noise’ anyway. And, of course, reliability will increase the budget and schedule today. Right? [Read more…]
When it comes to circuit assemblies, there are defects, which result in one of two situations. The preferred result of a defect is to capture it on your factory floor and repair it before it ships to the customer. The second scenario is referred to as an escape. That’s when the board ships to the customer and fails in the field. This is a scenario, all assemblers dread and strive to prevent. One way to prevent escapes is through the use of automated inspection or AOI systems.
My guests today are Arif Virani, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Darwin AI, and Bart Piwowar, CTO of Darwin AI, a manufacturer of innovative inspection systems.
Arif Virani is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the industry. As Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of DarwinAI, he spearheads the company’s mission to transform manufacturing with a new standard for quality inspection using AI. DarwinAI’s solutions have been implemented at the top Electronics Manufacturers to increase quality and efficiency, while reducing waste. DarwinAI was selected by CBInsights for its AI 100 annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies in the world in both 2020 and 2021.
Before founding DarwinAI, Arif had a successful career in management consulting at McKinsey & Company, where he advised F500 enterprises on technology investments and transformation. He led several technology-enabled programs, including building and commercializing data and analytics capabilities. Arif started his career working as a software developer at various technology companies. In addition to his work at DarwinAI, Arif is an Advisory Board Member of NGEN Canada’s AI for Manufacturing Initiative. He has a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Bachelor’s in Applied Science (Computer Engineering) from the University of Waterloo.
Bart Piwowar is an experienced Product Leader, leading high performing product teams driven by data to deliver solutions that solve customer’s problems. He has spent many years leading data science teams, applying Innovation methodologies, and working with emerging technologies to bring solutions in many disciplines. He graduated from University of Waterloo with a degree in Physics and Computing and later followed with an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Bart’s career interests range from AI product development, decision science and entrepreneurship.
I met Arif earlier this year at the IPC APEX Expo in San Diego California when he introduced me to his company’s automated inspection system.
Needless to say, I was truly impressed with their technology and I’m thrilled to have him as my guest on this episode of the podcast.
Contact Information:
Arif Virani
arif@darwinai.ca
https://darwinai.com/
Darwin AI’s YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@DarwinAI
Kirk and Fred discussing a accelerated stress test that a listener was going to use a different combination of stresses on samples to determine life estimates.
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Carl and Fred discussing the interesting subject of “blind spots,” and how they can impede good designs.
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This episode is a complement to articles and podcasts available on the Industrial Metallurgists website.
The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Limuel Sagadraca in Episode 35 of this series.
We do projects all the time. Some projects are about developing new things, and others are about improving what we have – continuous improvement.
In the quality realm, there’s what they call the instant glory model. This same kind of thing can happen in product design, too.
We talk about what quality folks call an instant glory, and what to do about it in product design engineering.
