Episode 14: Extreme Product Testing

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s shopping season. When we buy electronics and other products, we expect them to be reliable and safe. Our guest today is a product assurance expert who subjects consumer products and other equipment to a range of adverse conditions. Before you buy and use them, products in her lab have been exposed to extreme drops, peak temperatures and corrosive environments to make sure they hold up. In this episode, we discuss why extreme testing is critical. Plus, our expert shares some valuable consumer tips. In today’s Breakthroughs, an ancient woodworking technique leads to a new discovery. And in Ask us Anything, we call in a robotics expert to answer a curious listener’s question. Listen now.

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0:00.0	Are you buying electronics this holiday season?
0:02.6	Then you'll want to hear from our guest today.
0:04.5	She tests products in extreme conditions.
0:07.3	And she has some tips for holiday shoppers, what to look for, and what to avoid.
0:11.9	Plus, a technique used for thousands of years and woodworking leads to a new discovery.
0:17.6	That's ahead on breakthroughs.
0:19.1	And we answer a listener question in Ask Us Anything on
0:23.0	this episode of Technology Today. We live with technology, science, engineering, and the results
0:33.0	of innovative research every day. Now let's understand it better. You're listening to the Technology
0:38.8	Today podcast presented by Southwest Research Institute. Hello and welcome to technology today.
0:45.5	I'm Lisa Fenya. A new breakthrough story and ask us anything just ahead. But first, our guest today
0:52.1	is SWRI engineer and Product Assurance Laboratory Manager Jenny
0:57.1	Faron. She and her team test electronics and other products for safety, endurance, and reliability.
1:04.1	She's here to talk about what these products go through before you buy them, and they go
1:08.5	through quite a bit. And she has some tips for shoppers.
1:11.7	Thanks for being here, Jenny.
1:12.7	Thank you for having me.
1:14.0	So you can Doug Product Assurance on electronics and other consumer products.
1:18.3	So what type of products do you test?
1:21.0	Well, we test everything from cell phones and laptops to the batteries that power them, batteries that may go into the toys
1:30.3	that you buy for your children, tools and equipment that you might use in your workshop.
1:35.7	So really a range of consumer goods?
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