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The DFE Part of DFX (Design For Environment and eXcellence)

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Design for Excellence (DFX) is a concept that includes many initiatives, like design for usability, design for manufacturability and assembly, and design for environment and disassembly. It’s a focus on doing things right, exceeding customer expectations, optimizing what’s needed while minimizing costs, and continuous improvement.  Today we take a deep dive on one of those…

Results-Driven Decisions, Faster: Accelerated Stress Testing as a Reliability Life Test

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When to use DOE (Design of Experiments)?

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Design for User Tasks using an Urgent/Important Matrix

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Statistical vs. Practical Significance

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How Many Do We Need To Test?

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In this episode we review sampling for design tests. We talk through a generic thought process for choosing a statistically relevant sample size and propose some basics that we can all learn about to better understand sampling. Our goal is for us to be able to better talk through a sampling scenario with our quality…