Quality during Design
Quality during Design is a production of Deeney Enterprises, LLC. It is a podcast for product designers, engineers, and anyone else who cares about creating high-quality products. In each episode, we explore the principles of quality design, from user-centered thinking to iterative development. We introduce frameworks to make better design decisions and reduce costly re-designs. We explore ways to co-work with cross-functional teams. We also talk to experts in the field about their experiences and insights.
Join host Dianna Deeney in using quality thinking throughout the design process to create products others love, for less. Whether you're a seasoned designer or just starting out, looking to improve your existing designs or start from scratch, Quality during Design is the podcast for you.
Quality during Design
Celebrating a Year of Insights
Celebrating a year of insights and community growth, this episode reflects on key moments, popular episodes, and the future direction of the Quality During Design podcast. 2024 included episodes focused on actionable insights, deep-dive series, expert interviews, and insightful book reviews. With gratitude for listeners and a commitment to quality, we look ahead to new topics and collaborations for 2025.
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Dianna Deeney is a quality advocate for product development with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing. She is president of Deeney Enterprises, LLC, which helps organizations optimize their engineering processes and team performance by promoting the use of reliability and quality methods during design. She offers consulting services for managers and directors, training for engineers through the Quality During Design program, and other practical resources.
Hello and welcome to Quality During Design, the place to use quality thinking to create products others love for less. I'm your host, diana Deeney. I'm a senior level quality professional and engineer with over 20 years of experience in manufacturing and design. I consult with businesses and coach individuals and how to apply quality during design to their processes. Listen in and then join us. Visit qualityduringdesigncom.
Speaker 1:Hey everyone, wow, what a year it's been. Thinking back on all the conversations we've had, the guests we welcomed and the topics we've explored, I'm filled with a sense of accomplishment. I'm so proud of the podcast that we've built together Together, because this podcast wouldn't be possible without you. I'm incredibly grateful for this community. I wanted to create this episode as a thank you, to review some of the interesting statistics about this podcast, to remind you of what we did last year, so if you missed it, you can go back and catch up and looking forward to next year what we have planned. If you're a return listener, thank you so much for tuning in to Quality During Design. If you're new here, welcome to the Quality During Design podcast. Quality During Design is a philosophy that emphasizes the benefits of cross-functional team involvement in design, and it's also a methodology that uses quality tools to refine design concepts early. It's quality during the design process. So here at Quality During Design, we talk a lot about quality tools, reliability tools and analysis and design methodologies, and also communications and communication enhancements with our cross-functional team. Whether you're a seasoned designer or just starting out, looking to improve your existing designs or start from scratch, quality During Design is for you. We have something for you. Speaking of you, the listeners. Thank you for listening. The Quality During Design is for you. We have something for you. Speaking of you, the listeners. Thank you for listening. The Quality During Design podcast has been streamed in over 30 countries around the world. The top five countries are the United States, mexico, germany, ireland and the United Kingdom, no matter where you're located. Thank you for listening and tuning in.
Speaker 1:Over the life of the podcast, which started in 2021, the most popular episodes have to do with FMEA failure mode and effects analysis. That is one of the reasons why I decided to create an FMEA course. I teamed up with Ray Harkins and the Manufacturing Academy on Udemy U-D-E-M-Y to create an asynchronous course. It's a course that you buy, you have lifetime access to, and it is bite-sized lessons that you can digest a little bit here and there or you can do it all at once. It's asynchronous, it's up to you. You control your learning pace. The course is called FMEA in Practice From Plan to Risk-Based Decision Making a guide to understanding and applying failure modes and effects analysis in your systems, products and processes.
Speaker 1:My goal with this course was to take it way beyond filling in a table and meeting regulatory requirements. I really wanted to get into how to use these analyses to make decisions and how to use them to control and mitigate risks. We talk about risk management goals being strategic with what FMEAs we're supposed to be doing. We talk about the use of FMEA to help us meet our risk management goals. I touch on why you see people railing against the risk index and what that means for us and what we can do about it, and I also get into how to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of our meetings with strategic and tactical measures. I invite you to learn more about it at udemycom or you can go to qualityduringdesigncom and find a link to get more information there, and you can join over 200 other students in this learning material.
Speaker 1:Fmea might be the most popular topic over the history of the podcast, but over the last year. The most popular episode that was released this year was prioritizing customer satisfaction and product design in parentheses, the Kano model. I was not expecting this episode to be as popular as it was, but I'm pleasantly surprised because look for this type of analysis in a book to be released next year. I've been working on a manuscript with a working title Pierce the Fog of Design. Develop Design Inputs with a Team Before you Start Engineering Solutions. I'm not only talking about KANA model things. I'm also talking about risk management and use process, being able to evaluate those in knowledge sharing sessions with our cross-functional team. We're talking about concept development working with our team to develop ideas before we start creating solutions and creating prototypes for things. I think this topic is very important and encompasses a lot of the things that I try to promote with quality during design, so I am very excited to be able to bring this book to you next year. I'll be working with some experts to really polish it and make it the best that it can be. Be working with some experts to really polish it and make it the best that it can be. If you'd like to stay on top of the details and news about this book, then please sign up for the newsletter. It's a monthly digest of all things quality during design and engineering. Sign up using the forms at qualityduringdesigncom.
Speaker 1:Over the life of the podcast I've had a few special series. I had one special series this year called the Myths of Product Development. In it I took a article from Harvard Business Review and broke down what some of these myths of product development were, and a lot of them had to do with treating the product development process like a manufacturing process and how it doesn't work and why it doesn't work. So I broke that down over two episodes. We talked about each of the myths and how it applies and how quality during design methods can help address those myths or help to make your design process better. If you missed that special series, please go back and check it out. Other special podcast episodes we had included book reviews.
Speaker 1:I did a self-review of a book by Arnold Schwarzenegger Be Useful Seven Tools for Life. I really wanted to bring forward some of the ideas he presented in his book because it's applicable to our careers and to how we react to things in engineering and in product development. The major technique was to follow up and follow through and I share some of the stories that Arnold shares in his books, and I also share some of my own personal stories about my struggles with this. This is something that we all need to learn. We can either learn from others and be proactive about it. Sometimes it's a hard lesson learned where we have to experience it to really understand what people mean by follow up and follow through. Hopefully we can help you learn this lesson, or to help you move on from this lesson so you can be better at your career. I know I was once. I learned it. I collaborated with others in other book reviews.
Speaker 1:Another book review format that I take is to choose two books, read them at the same time and to compare and contrast the books, especially over a certain theme which we choose engineering themes and working as an engineer as a theme and what each book has to say about those themes. So I collaborated with somebody on comparing these two books Brilliant Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology by Bob Johnstone and how to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. This book review was published as part of an IEEE webinar series and I got permission to republish it as a podcast episode, so if you missed it this year, go back and check it out Late. In the previous year, in 2023, I collaborated with a couple of other friends on another book discussion, where we discussed the Wright Brothers by David McCullough and To Engineer as Human by Henry Petrosky. I shared these in the Quality Dairy Design podcast this year also. So if you like these book reviews there are two of them this year Please let me know if this is something you'd like to continue listening to, if this is something you're interested in. Also, let me know if there are any books that you think we should include in a book review discussion.
Speaker 1:Speaking of collaborations, we had three interviews this year. I interviewed Fred Schenkelberg on getting information for product design, where we talked a lot about reliability engineering and how it can provide information for design decisions. I spoke with Dr Megan Pollack about improving communication and the workplace, where she promotes looking at our workplaces a little differently to make them more inclusive, to be more empathetic with the people around us, so that we can improve our workplaces, make them a better place to work. I also spoke with Dr Yakira Mirabito about social dynamics within engineering, specifically in design reviews, how personalities and these social dynamics in engineering can affect the decisions that are made about a project and what we can do about it instead. I really enjoy these interviews. I like hosting these interviews and talking with other people and sharing our discussion with you.
Speaker 1:These interviews and talking with other people and sharing our discussion with you.
Speaker 1:If you like these interviews, know that they are packaged within season three of the Quality During Design podcast. You can also go to qualityduringdesigncom and in the podcast blog search for A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts. That'll give you a list of all the interviews that we've done so far with the podcast. So, besides the one-off episodes of special tools and techniques that can make our engineering lives easier, we also incorporate interviews, book review discussions and series about special topics. If you're listening on your podcast player, go ahead and click the link at the top of the description which says send us a text.
Speaker 1:Let me know which of these formats you like the most. If you like all of these formats and like having a mix of them, that is also useful information to know. As we head into the new year, I'm excited to continue bringing you insightful and engaging content. This year has been a journey of growth, learning and connection. I'm so thankful for this community of listeners who share a passion for quality, reliability and product design. I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. This has been a production of Dini Enterprises. Thanks for listening.
