Dianna, Author at Deeney Enterprises

The Real Reason Your Product Launches Late (It’s Not What You Think)

The design fog is costing your team weeks of wasted work and your product launches late. Here’s how to pierce it in just a few hours…

Is Your FMEA Worksheet Holding You Back? Tips from the Experts

I want to share four recent episodes from the Speaking of Reliability podcast that delve into FMEA, including three that I had the pleasure of co-hosting with Carl Carlson. These discussions are designed to offer valuable insights for using FMEA to enhance product safety, optimize design, and improve overall risk management. What is FMEA? FMEA…

Are maintenance activities too complex to model?

Maintenance is one potential application for AI with autonomous decision making. And it’s the current target for many industries.

Design to Avoid Problems: Focusing on Symptoms Early On

The art of product development is fraught with challenges, but perhaps none is more heartbreaking than hearing negative customer feedback when you thought you were at the finish line. Picture this all-too-common scenario: after months of development and seemingly thorough customer engagement throughout the process, you finally present your polished product to users only to…

Engineering Careers: A Panel Discussion with ‘Brilliant!’ and ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’’

Join Steven Giako and Dianna Deeney in a panel discussion of central themes in the books Brilliant! Shuji Nakamura And the Revolution in Lighting Technology and How to Win Friends and Influence People. How do these two books relate with one another, and what lessons can be learned by combining and contrasting their messages? How can…

Bridging Triumph and Trial: A Panel Discussion about Engineering with ‘To Engineer is Human’ and ‘The Wright Brothers’

STEM professionals host a panel discussion about engineering to discuss ideas from literature about engineering to current-day challenges.

Driving Effective Conversations-Three Major Aspects to Consider for DfX

How do we better design for excellence? We should ask our cross-functional teams about these three major aspects. Knowing why helps.