Abstract

Kirk discusses the many times his home appliances failing and doing his own failure analysis and the limitations.

Key Points

Join Kirk as he discusses his own experiences with unreliable appliances and possible causes.
Topics include:

• What limits did  the designs such a kitchen blender have for possible loads (Ice, small pebbles?)
• What amount and size of broken or hard pieces of debris was a considered by designers in a automatic dishwasher
• Market acceptance of the high cost limits us from developing a robotic dishwasher that could really scrub dishes.

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SOR 512 Learning From Any FailureKirk Gray

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Show Notes

Here is the link to the US ARMY/CALCE PAPER presented at the 2013 RAMS conference event mentioned in this podcast– “Reliability Prediction – A Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach” . This is a government document that is in the public domain and should be distributed a read by any engineer that believes failure prediction methodology is useful or beneficial during product development.

Here is a link to Kirk’s book co-authored with John J. Paschkewitz available from Amazon “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems”