Why Did The Titan Sub And Siemens Gamesa Wind Turbines Fail?

Sofeast’s CEO Renaud and Andrew Amirnovin, reliability expert and our head of New Product Development, try to get to the bottom of why two high-profile reliability failures in the news recently occurred, namely the Oceangate Titan submersible and the Siemens Gamesa wind turbines. They look at the cases and suggest what caused the failures and what the companies might have done in order to avoid them.

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Episode 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
• Get help from Sofeast to do Reliability Engineering & Testing (in a China lab) – we provide reliability engineering services including reliability testing on component and PCB levels as well as the product level on various types of consumer products. Some of these tests include drop, vibration, temperature and humidity and package testing. We can customize the right tests for your product.
• How Reliability Testing Is Critical To Obtaining Great Mass-Produced Products
• The Design for Reliability Process for Launching Reliable Products

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Editor’s note: images courtesy of OceanGate, via Getty Images and REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration.