Quality during Design

Dianna Deeney interviews Scott Abel about why members of the technical documentation team should be brought into product design process earlier rather than later. And to encourage product design teams to incorporate the insights available from technical documentation professionals into their design decisions. This episode is Part 2 of our interview. Part 1 (published earlier) was a discussion invo...

Dianna Deeney interviews Scott Abel about information development management, a discipline concerned with best practices for managing and coordinating all activities related to the development, production, and distribution of information. He shares ideas, strategies, and best practices for unifying all product information - technical documentation, product specifications, customer support, trainin...

Ready to hone your technical writing skills as an engineer? This episode of the Quality During Design podcast is a must-listen! We delve into the critical role of technical communication in engineering, and why written communication skills are non-negotiable for engineers. Join me, Dianna Deeney, as we consider different perspectives to make your technical writing the best it can be. Our chat take...

Who wouldn't want a treasure trove of product knowledge right at their fingertips? We explore FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and unlock its potential for complaint investigation. Harness the power of FMEA - not just a tool, but a wellspring of team knowledge about your product. But we're not finished there - we're turning FMEA data into actionable knowledge. We delve into the...

Are you ready to elevate your understanding of reliability during design to the next level? This episode is an absolute must-listen! I'm your host, Dianna Deeney, and I'll help you dissect the world of reliability life testing in design. We'll explore how the integration of critical reliability data into the decision-making process can revolutionize your design approach. Ever felt c...

When you design a product, you consider the field reliability. Use environment usually comes to mind first. Do you also consider the stresses it undergoes from its creation to the end user's hands?  We talk about designing for reliability, accounting for not just the product's use but also its journey from production to the consumer. As a part of our in-depth discussion, we'll look...

We're continuing to explore topics about reliability engineering during design. ==== 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...

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...

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...

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.  Visit...

Virtual meetings are here to stay. What does this mean when product design engineers are trying to get design inputs from the cross-functional team? It means we need to adapt and to show that we're consistent and that we can be trusted to facilitate the meeting within time and with goals achieved. Visit the podcast blog . Send us a message Work with Dianna I help product development teams bui...

We've been talking about how to best work with our cross-functional team at early concept development - to use quality and reliability tools in working meetings to really understand the concept space as a way to design for how the customer may experience our new concept idea. Coming out of our talks make be questions about unknowns or misalignments. We may need to meet our customers where the...

Dianna Deeney interviews Sol Rosenbaum about engineering with receptivity: how an openness toward others for new impressions and different ideas can lead to a successful engineering career. 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. About Sol Sol...

A goal without a plan is just a wish. We take these wishes... "I wish I had the cross functional input that I need for design inputs." "I wish I could work with my cross functional team." "I wish my team would accept my design idea." ...and we add a plan to make them a GOAL. We plan for what it is we want and how we're going to get there using Quality during Desi...

We're given information about an opportunity for a new product.  We talk about what can happen when we start solution-building just with what we're given. And we talk about an alternative start to a new engineering project. Send us a message Work with Dianna I help product development teams build quality into the front end when it's cheap and easy, not late when it's expensive...

In this special episode of Quality during Design Redux, we're pulling episodes from our archive about test results analysis. In our Season 1 - Episode 93  titled "The Fundamental Thing to Know from Statistics for Design Engineering", we talked about hypothesis testing: how it is used for lots of data analysis techniques. The next 4 episodes of this QDD Redux are taking the next step...

In this special episode of Quality during Design Redux, we're pulling episodes from our archive about test results analysis. In our Season 1 - Episode 93  titled "The Fundamental Thing to Know from Statistics for Design Engineering", we talked about hypothesis testing: how it is used for lots of data analysis techniques. The next 4 episodes of this QDD Redux are taking the next step...

In this special episode of Quality during Design Redux, we're pulling episodes from our archive about test results analysis.  In our Season 1 - Episode 93  titled "The Fundamental Thing to Know from Statistics for Design Engineering", we talked about hypothesis testing: how it is used for lots of data analysis techniques.  The next 4 episodes of this QDD Redux are taking the next st...

In this special episode of Quality during Design Redux, we're pulling episodes from our archive about test results analysis. In our Season 1 - Episode 93  titled "The Fundamental Thing to Know from Statistics for Design Engineering", we talked about hypothesis testing: how it is used for lots of data analysis techniques. The next 4 episodes of this QDD Redux are taking the next step...

A quiz: What statistical concept is used in these design activities? DOE (design of experiments) Sampling  Test results analysis  Gage R&R studies  Test method validations  SPC (with some rules in monitoring changes in a process)  If you answered, "Hypothesis Testing", you're right on! Even if you’re not really into statistics, there’s still basics that we should learn and under...

We all like effective and efficient working meetings. What do we do to plan them, or how do we improve our recurring ones? Are we prepared to do things differently? If so, we can collect information so we know what we want to improve and by how much. We talk about best practices of meeting evaluations for those that we plan and facilitate and those recurring team meetings. What about your meetings...

How do we even begin a design for the user without getting into engineering prototypes? Don't we need to do lots of iterations of prototypes and physical mockups to get design inputs from other people? While these things can be useful, they're not always practical or necessary, No - we don't need to do lots of iterations of different mockups to get design inputs. In fact, we want to...

How are quality tools Legos of development? We talk about two philosophies of brick building and our use of the family of quality tools. We also talk about seven uses of quality tools in product development. Visit the podcast blog for fun graphics. Other Quality during Design podcast episodes you might like: Choosing Quality Tools (Mind Map vs. Flowchart vs. Spaghetti Diagram) Quality as a Strateg...

What types of things might happen when we don't fully understand, explore, or address: the breadth of the whole concept space, a product's many users, and the voice of the customer? We explore a public consumer complaint and upset over coffee pods. And we imagine what may have happened (or didn't happen) during design development that could have helped avoid the issues from the star...

Dianna Deeney and Shere Tuckey talk about Crucial Conversations® in an engineering environment: how to prepare for and have difficult conversations with peers, managers, and everyone else.  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 for new product development. We discuss th...