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Join Renaud Anjoran, Founder & CEO of Sofeast, in this podcast aimed at importers who develop their own products as he discusses the hottest topics and shares actionable tips for manufacturing in China & Asia today! WHO IS RENAUD? Renaud is a French ISO 9001 & 14001 certified lead auditor, ASQ certified Quality Engineer and Quality Manager who has been working in the Chinese manufacturing industry since 2005. He is the founder of the Sofeast group that has over 200 staff globally and offers services (QA, product development & engineering, project management, Supply Chain Management, product compliance, reliability testing), contract manufacturing, and 3PL fulfillment for importers and businesses who develop their own products and buyers from China & SE Asia. WHY LISTEN? We‘ll discuss interesting topics for anyone who develops and sources their products from Asian suppliers and will share Renaud‘s decades of manufacturing experience, as well as inviting guests from the industry to get a different viewpoint. Our goal is to help you get better results and end up with suppliers and products that exceed your expectations!
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Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
In this episode...
Renaud hosts today and is joined by Andrew Amirnovin, Sofeast's reliability expert and our head of New Product Development, to cover the topic of reliability data and how it can be used to help you make better products and reduce your costs.
Show Sections
00:00 - Greetings and introducing today's topic.
00:43 - What kind of reliability data can we get?
04:43 - Keeping a database of past issues or 'lessons learnt.'
10:29 - Where do issues that occur during manufacturing come from?
12:50 - How can reliability data be used to make better products?
17:16 - How user experience can influence a new testing plan.
19:46 - Over-engineering and reliability: Mercedes Cars in the 1980s and NOKIA phones that seemed to be indestructible.
25:11 - How can reliability data be used to cut production costs?
27:56 - An example from the early automobile industry: Henry Ford's Model-T Kingpin
33:52 - Takata airbag safety scandal.
38:39 - Wrapping up.
Related content...
- Get help from Sofeast to do Reliability Engineering & Testing (in a China lab) - we provide reliability engineering services including reliability testing on component and PCB levels as well as the product level on various types of consumer products. Some of these tests include drop, vibration, temperature and humidity and package testing. We can customize the right tests for your product.
- The story of the NOKIA 3210
- How To Do Product Reliability Testing?
- DFR Design For Reliability Guide & Implementation Secrets
- Henry Ford kingpin story
- Takata airbag recall
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