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.

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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