Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Re-telling of a manufacturing hardware war story talk I gave at a recent hardware meetup in Sydney.
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How a simple manufacturing change cost a company millions of dollars.

00:00 - Sydney Hardware Meetup
01:16 - Seismic Oil Survey Exploration: How to find oil
03:29 - Seismic survey vessels are HUGE!
04:25 - Solid Towed Array Streamers
05:56 - On the back deck of the ships
06:33 - Leading edge low noise 24bit ADC's
07:23 - Hydrophone module construction
09:33 - The actual war story - Continuous Improvement...
14:12 - It CAN'T be that, it's impossible...
16:58 - Field repair wasn't easy...

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