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Here you'll find content that will help grow your Quality and Reliability IQ and develop Quality Thinking.

"The key to success is dedication to life-long learning." — Stephen Covey

Download "Reasons to use quality & reliability early and iteratively in new product development and ways to do it"

Download our free guide. We look at common product development processes and include a practical guide of how to make them better, integrated with quality and reliability. Download here.

Quality during Design.com & the "Quality during Design Podcast"

We offer courses for product design engineers. Our website is also educational: podcast, blog, videos and more dedicated to sharing resources, practical advice, and problem-solving techniques for quality thinking throughout the design cycle.

"Dianna Deeney has launched a podcast that focuses on both the need and the 'how to' include quality and reliability in your design. Both entertaining and thoughtful, the shows are well done and worth subscribing." — Fred Schenkelberg at Accendo Reliability

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Dianna's Blog of Strategic Quality Thinking

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Product Development’s Important Influence on Monitoring After Launch

Our design is finally done going to be released to the market. It’s exciting. But before we hand off our design and move on to the next thing, there’s something you need to consider: do we have a good plan in place to capture data about the device, post-market? Because of your role as a designer in product…

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Quality and Reliability are Inputs, Well Before Prototype Designs

You’re at the end of your design process, proud of what you’ve accomplished. And, then come other people from other cross functional groups and they’re saying, “No.” Quality engineering and reliability engineering friends are pointing out some problems with your design.   It’s important to know that Quality and Reliability are inputs into your design process. It is not quality control…

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Risk Management and Designers

Project managers, sourcing or supplier management, and business management: all of these functions look at risk management a little bit differently than product development functions. But designers have input into all of them. Also, some of the risk management methods from these other functions are inputs into the design process.   Risk Management Associated with Design Business management…