Welcome to another episode of Reliability Matters. I’m coming to you from Baltimore MD where I am speaking at the IPC High Reliability Conference.

This is our 16th episode. We began this podcast journey in January 2019. Every week this year, we released a new episode. Many of the past 15 episodes featured interviews with various industry experts in a variety of subjects including X-ray, thermal management, cleaning and cleaning materials, failure analysis, design for reliability and other best-practice topics.

I’ve had a great time hosting this podcast and I hope you have found it valuable, relevant, and perhaps even entertaining. We are gearing up for another season of Reliability Matters episodes. We’re lining up new guests and topics. If there are any topics you’d like me to cover, or guests you’d like to hear from, please let me know. Shoot me an email at mike@mikekonrad.com and let me know what you want to hear.

Moving forward, we’ll be airing new episodes twice each month, on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month.

Today’s episode turns the table on our usual format. Normally, I interview an industry expert. Today, I’m the subject of the interview. My friend and colleague Phil Stoten from Scoop TV interviewed me a few months ago where we discussed cleaning and cleanliness testing as method to improve reliability. This interview took place on a crowded and relatively noisy trade show floor, so pardon the background noise. Here’s that interview.