IEEE - SCV - Reliability

Date

Subject

Place

May 24-26, 2011

SME Conference (RAPID)

Minneapolis, MN

June 6-8, 2011

Medical Device and Manufacturing, East

New York, NY

June 7-9, 2011

2011 International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS)

San Diego, CA

June 20-23, 2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management

Denver, CO

Aug 2-4, 2011

National Instruments Week Conference 2011

Austin, TX

September 2011

SMTA/MED Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ

Sept 25-29, 2011

PHM Conf

Montreal, Canada

Sept 28-30, 2011

Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability

San Francisco, CA

Nov 1-3, 2011

Medical Device and Manufacturing, Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN

Dec 6-7, 2011

Biomed

San Jose, CA

Date

May 9 , 2012

Topic

Linking Product / Process Reliability to Business Process Excellence

Abstract

Design for Lean Six Sigma (DFLSS) and Design for Reliability (DFR) are modern methods for both problem prevention and problem solving.

Design for Lean Six Sigma (DFLSS) uses an approach to product and/or process development that results in higher yields, lower implementation costs and smoother introduction of cutting edge technology. The DFLSS methodology is not an academic approach to process and product engineering. It does involve science. It also takes into account the integration of the actual process and the science behind the technology.

As the design helps fabricate, the product (or process is tested against the model to verify the validity of the model). Whenever a difference between the two is detected the model is adjusted and the simulation rerun. This iterative process allows us to bring the facility on line and at an operational level much quicker than conventional engineering firms.

The real advantage to the DFSS process is that it allows us to bring in projects with cost, which can be significantly less than that of your competition.  The most important issue is in the process’ ability to come on line faster after completion than is typical via using conventional design methodology. As technology and process requirements are concurrently engineered, it is not a process of design, build and commercialize to see if it works. When we bring a product on line it is with a process of optimization rather than resuscitation. This allows you to qualify and launch production quickly. This will ultimately allow the facility to begin paying for itself (generating revenue) in a shorter time period. The ultimate goal of all projects such as this is to generate a return on investment. Our value proposition to our customer base has always been maximizing the Return on Investment.

Design For Reliability (DFR) is the process of designing reliability into designs. This process encompasses several tools and practices and describes the order of their deployment that an organization needs to have in place to drive reliability and improve maintainability in products, towards an objective of improved availability, lower sustainment costs, and maximum product utilization or lifetime.

Typically, the first step in the DFR process is to establish the system’s reliability goals. Reliability must be "designed in" to the system. During system design, the top-level reliability requirements are then allocated to subsystems by design engineers, maintainers, and reliability engineers working together.

In this presentation, the synergy between the DFR and DFLSS methods will be presented and discussed.

 Speakers

Shree Nanguneri, CEO, MGBS Inc.

Shree has over 20 years of experience as a Lean Six Sigma consultant that inclusive of his tenure at GE Plastics. Shree has a deep understanding of the voice of the customer toward process improvement and customer feedback. He is a senior master black belt and has trained several hundreds of professionals in process breakthrough, utilizing, lean six sigma methods, including QFD. Shree works in the East Bay area of Livermore, CA. He just published his first book on Lean Six Sigma titled “Lean Six Sigma Tweet” in June 2011.

Mike Silverman, Managing Partner, Ops A La Carte LLC

Mike is founder and managing partner at Ops A La Carte, a Professional Consulting Company that has an intense focus on helping customers with end-to-end reliability. Mike has over 25 years of experience in reliability engineering, reliability management and reliability training. He is an experienced leader in Design for Reliability techniques.  Through Ops A La Carte, Mike has had extensive experience as a consultant to high-tech companies, and has consulted for over 500 companies in over 100 different industries in most of the United States and 15 countries around the world. Mike is an expert in accelerated reliability techniques and owns HALT and HASS Labs, one of the oldest and most experienced reliability labs in the world. Mike has recently completed his first book on reliability entitled “How Reliable Is Your Product: 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability”. Mike is currently the IEEE Reliability Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter Chair.

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