
Why Do Networking
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance and challenges of networking.
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance and challenges of networking.
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As a design engineer, you’re tasked with translating vague customer statements into something technical and measurable. And you also need to identify what requirements are important: filtering the “must meet” requirements against the “should have” requirements. And, finally, you need to do this with your cross-functional team.
What if you miss something important?
It’s difficult. There is a method that we can use. Let’s talk about the House of Quality and how you can use it no matter where you work.
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Both reliability and maintenance activities work to reduce failures and downtime. Perfect reliability of a system would eliminate the need for maintenance. Perfect maintenance would keep even poorly designed (reliability-wise) operating.
Together, the work of reliability and maintenance professionals can achieve more than each team working separately. Each brings a set of insights and skills to the conversation. Working together means improving the design of a system so it’s easier to maintain. It also means the maintenance teams’ day-to-day observations provide meaningful information to the reliability team.
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Today, we’re going to talk about cleanliness testing of post-reflowed circuit assemblies. In late 2018, IPC shocked the electronic assembly community by introducing an amendment to section 8 of the J-STD-001G. This amendment radically changed the way industry determines cleanliness. Now, assemblers must prove their assemblies are clean enough not to experience electro-chemical migration events which would cause the assembly to fail.
This new process of obtaining objective evidence has been met with a considerable degree of confusion. To help clear up the confusion, I invited Graham Naisbitt to be my guest. Graham is an IEC 1906 Lord Kelvin Award Winner, IEC TC91 WG2, 3 and 10 Maintenance Leader of 4 Standards.
Graham is Vice-Chair of the IPC 5-30 Cleaning and Coating Sub-Committee which oversees 15 IPC Standards Development Committees and recipient of 14 IPC Standards Awards. Graham is also a British Standards Institution EPL-501 Member.
Graham is a specialist in Surface Insulation Resistance Testing, Ionic Contamination Control, Solderability, Conformal Coating materials and application systems, Cleaning, Inspection and Test.
Graham’s Webinar:
“Predicting Reliability in Electronics” with experts Graham Naisbitt
and Chris Hunt
https://iconnect007.com/index.php?cID=854
Graham’s Book:
“The Printed Circuit Assembler’s Guide to Process Validation”
https://iconnect007.com/my-i-connect007/books/process-validation/
Graham’s Contact Info:
graham.naisbitt@gen3systems.com
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Why Maintenance & Reliability Communications Goes Wrong, and How to Fix it!
In Maintenance and Reliability, communication may be the most important skill set to have, whether talking with production, asking for budget approval, or getting that promotion, yet this skill set is never taught in class or any reliability certification path.
As Maintenance and Reliability leaders, we often need to take complex technical information and make it more understandable for our audience, after all, we are the experts and they likely aren’t. But having so much knowledge on the topics we discuss often makes simplifying the information more difficult, leading to technical jargon and a story that is not re-tellable after the presentation. This is known as the “curse of knowledge”, and there is a way to overcome it and still have a lasting impact.
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How do we measure the planning and scheduling process? George Williams and Ramesh Gulati dive deeper into why we do so in the Reliability field.

Dianna and Fred discussing design reviews and independent reviewers.
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This week I’m joined by Suzane Greeman to discuss asset management and why your business processes are holding you back from achieving your reliability goals.
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If you have quality friends, you may have heard of Gemba. What is Gemba and can it help with product design?
Gemba is an ideology.
And, yes, it can help with product design!
We explore how and talk about why you might want to adopt the term “Gemba” for product design engineering.

Dianna and Fred discussing how to get next steps when being presented a problem by quality assurance.
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Why should we measure maintenance and reliability? George Williams and Ramesh Gulati explore the reasons behind measuring
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Chris and Fred discuss the seemingly never resolved question on ‘who’ is responsible for making something reliable? Is it the supplier? The designers? The manufacturers? Aliens?
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In this episode I got to interview the amazing Fred Schenkelberg, who is a reliability expert at FMS Reliability and the owner of the super popular reliability and quality engineering professional development online platform, Accendo Reliability (make sure to check it out if you haven’t already!).
The episode centers on using and making sense of sensors in manufacturing. The application of sensors in manufacturing has become quite widespread. The goal is to collect large amounts of data from manufacturing equipment with the goal for those data to become information, knowledge and aid decision making. Potential areas are equipment maintenance/reliability, product performance and reliability, quality, efficiency, traceability, regulatory etc.
Fred shares with us his experience and wisdom on:
– Misapplication of sensors in manufacturing
– How experimentation prior to setting up a sensor is critical for understanding what you need to (and more importantly, what you don’t need to) collect data on
– Merely looking at sensor data doesn’t replace hands-on, in-person interaction with manufacturing equipment
– Strategies for deciding on what is important to collect data on
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“A Chat with Cross Functional Experts” is a Quality during Design interview series. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. 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.
Today we talk with Gabor Szabo. Gabor is an engineering and data professional with experience in numerous industries, including the medical device and automotive industries. In his current role a Sr. Principal Engineer of Operations Excellence, he works with various cross-functional teams on validating new processes and products, launching new products, helps them diagnose and solve technical problems. He hosts the Critical Talks podcast. He also develops software and builds data products in R.