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Supply Chain Management during Design, with Kevin Bailey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Kevin Bailey and Dianna Deeney talk about how design engineers are affected by and can affect supply chain management, for design success.

Next Steps after Surprising Test Results

We use test to learn more about the product in order to make design decisions. What do we do when we get surprising test results?

Why Yield Quality in the Front-End of Product Development

We want to yield quality in the front-end of product development, to help us do the engineering work that’s important for great designs.

Supplier Control Plans and Design Specs

Supplier control plans and design specs can go hand-in-hand in the quest for quality. Learn how control plans can benefit your design process.

Use FMEA to Choose Critical Design Features

Creating design specs is an important part of engineering design. We review a way to choose critical design features, based on risk.

Design Specs vs. Process Control, Capability, and SPC

This fourth episode of the “QDD Versus” series focuses on concepts relating to Design for Manufacturability. Understand how design specs fit into process control, process capability, and SPC and where they typically don’t fit at all. We talk about things to think about when setting limits on design features.And, when defining controls for potential failures,…

Discrete Data vs. Continuous Data

Once we’ve decided to control something (think of our prevention and detection controls), we then need to decide how to measure it. Different controls may need different measuring requirements, which can give us discrete or continuous data. We treat these data types differently when collecting it, determining sample sizes, and analyzing it for results. Tune-in…

Prevention Controls vs. Detection Controls

Dianna compares different types of controls in product development and design engineering: Prevention Controls vs. Detection Controls. She reviews concepts, uses for controls, risk-based controls, and how to prioritize design efforts for the right controls.

Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese?

There’s a model that can help us visualize and consider the different barriers to harm: The Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation. Learn what makes up this model and how ideas are represented. There are also different ways that the model is being used today. How can we design for controls, policies, or actions that are part of the use of our product but outside of our control?