Attack your own design before the review board does.
Twelve short videos, one a day, built around a design review
seven days out. 32:48 in total. Free, delivered by email.
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What each day covers
- StartYour Review Is in 7 DaysTwo ways a review can go. Only one of them is quiet.
- D-7Audit Your Assumptions FirstEvery design rests on assumptions you stopped noticing. Today you write them down.
- D-6Hunt the Blind SpotsThe failure lives in the case you did not imagine. Today you go looking for it.
- D-5Triage — Where Being Wrong Hurts MostYou cannot check everything in a week. Today you decide what gets the time.
- D-4The Machinist Reads Your DrawingEvery tight tolerance carries a price tag. Today you find the top three.
- D-4Can It Be Built? Can It Be Fixed?Assembly and service are designed in, or designed out. Today you check both.
- D-3Tolerance Sanity, Part 1A perfect calculation on a broken chain is still wrong. Check the setup, not the number.
- D-3Heat and Datums — the Silent KillersThermal growth and datum shift are missing from your stack-up. Today they are not.
- D-2The Interface Collision CheckMost failures live between units, not inside them. Today you check the seams.
- D-2The One-Year-Later Pre-MortemImagine a unit failed in the field after a year. Today you work backward from it.
- D-1Dress Rehearsal — the Hostile ReviewerFive hardest questions in the room. Today you hear them first.
- Review dayReview Day, and Every Review AfterThe room does not remember who found the problem. It remembers who was ready.
Who is teaching this
Hiroshi Shibata — 19 years of R&D in Japanese precision manufacturing.
13 years at Fujifilm on the Jet Press series, the world's first single-pass
inkjet cut-sheet printer, and 5.5 years at Konica Minolta leading inkjet
process technology for the AccurioJet KM-1. Nearly 50 patent filings.
Now an independent consultant in Bangkok.