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PCBA Protection: How to Care for the Heart of your Electronic Product [Podcast]

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On this episode of the China Manufacturing Decoded Podcast, Adrian hosts and is joined by Andrew, our reliability and testing head who is going to explain why the PCBA in your electronic product is critical, and how to protect it both physically and through product design.

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Greetings and introduction.
  • 01:45 – What is the PCB and why is it so important?
  • 03:04 – How and why do we protect the PCB?
  • 04:40 – Conformal coating.
  • 08:51 – Other PCB protection options.
  • 14:14 – The process of protecting a product from the inside out.
  • 18:42 – The costs of protecting PCBs.
  • 23:44 – The coating process.
  • 25:05 – Wrapping up.

 

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Apple Vision Pro Cracks! Reliability Problems Already? [Bonus Podcast]

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Our CEO Renaud chats with reliability and durability expert, Andrew Amirnovin, about Apple’s recent bad news about cracks appearing in their much-hyped Vision Pro headset just weeks after its release to the public. They explore the reliability and durability problems rearing their heads only a month or so into the product’s general release in early February 2024, based on information found in online news articles and videos, and make some predictions about how this can be fixed and what customers should do.

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Introduction, what is the Vision Pro?
  • 02:29 – Uh-oh, cracks to the headset!
  • 04:04 – How would an engineer start diagnosing this case?
  • 06:40 – Is the return or repair policy straightforward? What should Apple customers do if they’re affected?
  • 08:48 – Is it likely Apple’s engineers missed this issue and never saw it during product testing and development?
  • 11:29 – We all know that an iPhone is likely to suffer damage when dropped from 6ft, should we be surprised that the Vision Pro seems similarly fragile?
  • 13:27 – Wrapping up.

 

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How to Use Reliability Data to Make Better Products & Save Money

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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.

 

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Episode 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.

 

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Design for Reliability Secrets [Podcast]

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Design for Reliability Secrets podcast postOur head of New Product Development, Andrew Amirnovin, stops by to explain what DfR is, what an unreliable product looks like so you know what to avoid, the DfR process, and some secrets to implementing design for reliability that are often missed.

 

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Episode sections

  • 00:00 – Greetings and introducing the topic of DfR.
  • 01:08 – What is DfR and its objectives?
  • 04:29 – What makes an unreliable product?
  • 20:26 – What are some of the secrets to applying DfR that people need to know about?
  • 23:08 – Recap: The best engineering practices for reliability.
  • 24:32 – The process we follow to reduce our clients’ reliability risks.
  • 28:37 – Wrapping up.

 

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