Hello and welcome to Quality During Design , the place to use quality thinking to create products others love for and less . I'm your host , Dianna 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 on how to apply quality during design to their processes . Listen in and then join us . Visit qualityduringdesign . com . Hello there , I'm glad to be back . We are back from a brief hiatus just because we had some other obligations and things that were being developed .
But you know something that I learned while on this hiatus ? Besides all the cool things that we were doing , I realized that I missed podcasting for you . So I am really glad to be back . I want to share with you what I've been working on because you'll be interested in it .
And I also have some questions for you on some of your preferences and things you'd like to see , and I'll share some of the changes that you can expect in the future with the podcast, here . But first I want to get reacquainted , or take a moment to get reacquainted with you . I'm Dianna Deeney .
I'm an engineer and a senior quality professional that's certified through the ASQ , and this is Quality during Design . Here at Quality during Design , we look at using quality tools during development of new offerings of products and services . Quality tools reframe our problems and they help facilitate working groups , especially if it's a cross-functional team .
Cross-functional teams are something that's a great benefit when we're developing and designing new things , and quality tools can help with that . This is not groundbreaking news that quality tools can help with teams of people .
If you've been involved with any continuous improvement teams or done an 8D project or led or run a Lean Six Sigma project , those are all focused on systems or techniques of using quality tools for continuous improvement . Your manufacturing friends also use quality tools to make sure that their processes are effective and efficient .
But here at Quality During Design , we're focusing on quality during product development , using particular quality tools in a different way in order to help gather information from our cross-functional team to help us facilitate discussions and reframe the design problems that we're facing . Now to share a little bit about what I've been working on .
I've been working on an FMEA course . I've been collaborating with Ray Harkins from the Manufacturing Academy . That's where the course will be hosted on Udemy . If you have a Udemy account , then you're well on your way to being able to take this FMEA course . It is not released yet .
I'm still working on some of the final touches downloads and final videos , that kind of thing but I will announce when it is out . This FMEA course covers how to execute FMEA with teams and any industry for risk-based decisions .
I cover the traditional methods and then also the criticisms to those methods and why there are criticisms and a different way to approach FMEA , so that we address those . I am excited for this course to be able to be made available . I think it'll help a lot of people .
The other thing I've been working on are a system and assets for people in design to get early inputs from their cross-functional team . Even if we don't have a design yet , if we don't even have a concept yet , we're still gathering requirements and user needs . We can use some quality tools in a special way in order to get the requirements that we need .
We're looking to make the design process more effective and efficient . When we're designing new things , we've got to talk to other people . Using quality tools to be able to talk to others , explore ideas , gather their insights are all important things to do at the beginning of anything new that we're developing . This program takes a systems point of view .
In four to five working meetings , you can have a really good understanding of what it is that you're to be developing , what the requirements are , what the users are , what kind of user experience you're targeting . I've been calling this a quality during design fast track . I don't know if that's a good name and I would like your input .
I have a few names picked out , but I'm not sure which one is a good one , so I'm going to put it on a survey and ask you to please help me out with this . Just go to qualityduringdesigncom and please help me out with that . Since we're back with this podcast , are there any changes to expect ? Well , yes , there are . I'm glad you asked .
You'll notice there's some new cover art . So if you're scrolling through and looking for quality during design podcasts , just notice that the cover art has changed . This is really just to signify that hey , we're back .
We have been releasing podcasts every week and I'm going to try changing that to every two weeks and you may notice , for a little while anyway , that the release date of this podcast is going to change . So one week it may release on a Wednesday , like this one . Another week it may release on a Thursday or a Friday .
I'm changing this to see when is the best day for you to listen to this podcast . I'm also planning to have more interviews because it seems like you all like the interviews . I have some more questions about that in that survey .
So if you'd like to help me out with the content of this podcast , what kind of interviews you'd like to listen to and the kind of topics to be covered , go to that survey: www . q Qualityduringdesign . com/survey . I wanted to make sure that we were back by the first Wednesday of February , and here we are . I'm looking forward to continuing this podcast with you .
Like I said , I have a few questions for you at qualityduringdesigncom qualityduringdesign . com/s urvey what to name things and the kind of content you want to see . So your feedback would be greatly appreciated and I look forward to seeing you here again soon . This has been a production of Deeney Enterprises . Thanks for listening !