BIOMed Device Show

November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment

BIOMEDevice Show December 6-7, 2011, San Jose, CA, 10am-4pm We will be giving a seminar called “Innovation in Medical Product Design”. Register at: MD&M

Nov

15

Multiple Control Accelerometer Data – what it is REALLY showing you.

November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Sometimes no matter how well your vibration fixture is designed, you absolutely MUST use two or more control accelerometers to get all the way through your test spectrum. Now I’m NOT talking about using multiple control accelerometers to make a bad fixture work, there’s no excuse for that, I’m talking about a large, complex fixture [...]

Nov

12

Medical Risk Based Testing Webinar

November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment

FREE WEBINAR Medical Risk-Based Testing with IEC60601-1 3rd Edition by Ops A La Carte, part of the Ops monthly webinar series. Friday December 2nd, 8:30-9:30am PST The medical industry is moving in a similar direction to many other industries – Risk Based Testing. We will discuss what this means and how to comply. We will [...]

Nov

8

Solar Reliability Seminar

November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

FREE WEBINAR: Solar Reliability Webinar on Nov 10 Thursday November 10th, 9-10am PST – FREE WEBINAR on Reliability in the Universe of Solar Products, by Ops A La Carte and Concurrent Design, part of the ASQ Reliability Society webinar series. The universe of solar products is large and expanding rapidly. Of all of the emerging [...]

Nov

7

Continuation of Supplier Development

November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

In order to gain cooperation with the supplier, the key point is to look at your improvement objective in the eyes of the supplier – “Why should I do this”? “What’s in it for me”? The intent is to bring value to the supplier as well as the customer – both to win/gain! GAIN WHAT [...]

Nov

5

A Novel FMECA Approach

November 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment

A client developed a novel FMECA technique that I think has much to recommend it. A key difference lies in the way “Occurrence” is handled. Generally, when we develop a FMECA, we assign a somewhat-arbitrary number (1 – 10) to the occurrence factor. In this approach, the failure rate (in FIT’s) is used for each [...]