Learning From Those Closest

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the fact that many times those on the assembly and production lines are the ones that have the most information for assembly issues and causes of failures, yet the information they have is not heard by the engineers and management that could improve it.

Key Points

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss getting the information on reliability issues from those workers and technicians assembling the product or running production equipment to the engineers who made the assembly procedures.
Topics include:

Getting engineers to sit on the production lines and perform the procedure they wrote can be difficult even though watching the challenges and potential difficulty of the procedure and failures can be extremely beneficial and can help them relate to the assembly issues.
Management by walking around is a common method for knowing the real issues on the production floor, and allows managers and engineers to have a more macro perspective of the entire manufacturing process.
Fred tells of his experience finding a solution from a line worker for floating components in a wave solder using a ceramic bead bag that was very cost-effective, even though the engineers had come up with a much more expensive fixture.

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Show Notes

Please click on this link to access a relatively new analysis of traditional reliability prediction methods article from the US ARMY and CALCE titled “Reliability Prediction – Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”. It is in the public domain, so please distribute freely. Trying to predict reliability for development is a misleading a costly approach.

You can now purchase the most recent recording of Kirk Gray’s Hobbs Engineering 8 (two 4 hour sessions) hour Webinar “Rapid and Robust Reliability Development 2022 HALT & HASS Methodologies Online Seminar” from this link.

For more information on the newest discovery testing methodology here is a link to the book “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust design of Electronics and Systems” written by Kirk Gray and John Paschkewitz.

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