EEVblog #1032 Part 5 - John Kenny Keysight Interview

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight
Final part 5 of 5

This one covers the design of the 34460 multimeter, dc-dc converter design, cost targets, isolation, 34410a sales, contract manufacturers, production lines, chip packages, the 34460a 1000V spec mistake, IEC61010 Rev3 new challenges in product design, safety hazards and standards, floating design, certified power bricks, standby power consumption, power factor correction, how PFC is now zero cost, real power switches, soft power buttons, cost targets for products, and the art of low cost product design,

John Kenny is presently the Technology and Efficiency Manager for the Electronic Instruments and Systems Group. After graduating from Lehigh University in 1978, he started in Hewlett Packard, working in our Modular Power System team, designing modular supplies, and later moved to our Lab and Industrial Power group, where he was involved in Analog, Digital and Firmware design for the next 20 years, involved in the rollout of our many programmable power products. In 2005, he moved into a new role as the Technology Manager for the System Products Group, which covered all of the GP products, including Power Products, DMMs, Function Generators, Counters and Data Acquisition products. He was directly involved in the development of the breadth of the GP products that you see in the Keysigt catalog today, with more on their way. Recently, as part of the reorganization in 2015 as part of the new Keysight, he became responsible for Technology and Efficiency management for most of our non-RF based products, as part of the EISG Center of Excellence, which includes products developed in Japan, Penang, Singapore, Loveland and Budd Lake.

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[onesleepyshadow]

John, thanks for taking the time and your openness. Great interview Dave!

[rikvdmark]

This interview series was great to watch.
Very interesting all the way through :)
Definitely something I wouldn't mind seeing interviews like this again in the future !

[GeorgeGraves]

Thanks Dave for being a better listener during these recent interviews.

[RobEinstein]

One of the best interviews I've watched on YouTube so far. Mr. Kenny is a brilliant professional! He absolutely knows what he is talking about (technical and business levels). Congrats Dave for bringing us such a great content! Please, more interviews;)

[jeremyowen]

John Kenny makes me proud to be an engineer, now retired. He's the perfect blend of detail engineer turned efficiency messiah, able to explain his world so well. I couldn't stop watching. And yes, I use Agilent and Keysight on my bench, all paid for by me, not some company. Now I really undesrstand why. What a wonderful example of an open, thoughtful, creative engineer. Thanks, Dave for making all of this extensive and fascinating interview available.

[hexinli]

Thank you Mr. Kenny for your insight and erudition.  You should be THE FACE of Keysight to the Engineering community and those of us who care about T&M.  Dave - thank you for bringing Mr. Kenny to the EEVBlog stage.  John - should you ever get to the Phoenix, AZ area, look me up and I'll buy you a beer, or two, or three, or thirty and pick your brain.  This was a great series never to be duplicated and certainly not to be surpassed.

[semidemiurge]

It is hard to envision a more insightful and information dense interview than this series with John Kenny. Just the best.

[CraigOverend]

Haven't felt compelled to watch EEVBlog in a while, but I thoroughly enjoyed this series with John.

[yanickpoirier]

Being just an electronic hobbyist, this is by far the most educative interview I've seen in a long, long, long time. If I was a US citizen, I would yell out "John Kenney for President" ;). Thank you very much Dave and John. Can't wait to say watch more of this.

[themaconeau]

Loved every second of this series.
Thanks for your time and insight, John. Very much appreciated 👍

Can’t wait for the next one 👌😎

[har]

What a great spokesperson for his company... Great stuff, Dave.

[jjoster]

I love this interview. Thanks to all who made it happen.

[ramsaygordon]

Very nice series, waiting to see more of these. Thank you very much to both John and Dave. 73

[blockbertus]

I have no idea about electronics design, scopes or such but it was really interesting to listen to this interview as it shows a lot of insight into the industry, how products are designed in general and how feedback is handled.
I specifically found it interesting that they take your blog and the comments from the community as a source of feedback. Pretty cool.

Thanks John and Dave!

[smellysam]

Very good interview, very nice to see things from the other side.

Dave and John thank you both so much for this series, it is greatly appreciated and a wealth of insight.

[alessandrocostantini]

One of the most interesting interview I've ever enjoyed. Thanks to a great unexpectedly great interviewer

[humidbeing]

This series is brilliant. You can immediately tell this guy knows his stuff.

[georgelewisray]

Thank You John & Dave, really great talk.

[jamessmithe]

I'm not an engineer and basically marvel at electricity. I started watching this Interview to help me fall asleep. Well, it turned out super interesting and I watched all five parts. Very well done!