Description
In this episode...
Sofeast's CEO Renaud and Andrew Amirnovin, reliability expert and our head of New Product Development, explore two high-profile product reliability nightmares that have been in the news recently: the destruction of the Oceangate Titan submersible that catastrophically imploded near the wreck of the Titanic and the reliability failures of the Siemens Gamesa wind turbines that suffered from vibration landing them with a $ 2 billion price tag to fix and denting their stock prices
Show Sections
00:00 - Greetings and introducing today's topic.
02:23 - 1. The destruction of the Titan submersible visiting the wreck of the Titanic.
22:14 - Do strict standards actually stifle innovation and make it hard for new companies to enter a market?
27:46 - 2. Vibrating Siemens Gamesa wind turbines.
34:52 - Comparing possible testing solutions for the Titan sub and the wind turbines.
39:52 - Summary: What it takes to manufacture and keep manufacturing a reliable product.
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The Oceangate Titan submersible
The Siemens Gamesa wind turbines
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