Maintaining Quality & Reliability of a Complex Product through a Global Manufacturing Transfer

Kevin Foy, Agilent Technologies

(Please register to attend by Friday, September 5, so we can plan the refreshments.)

Transferring a complex product from its design manufacturing site to a LCC (Low Cost Country) manufacturing site is a difficult task.  Performing the transfer without affecting Quality & Reliability, thus making it transparent to the customer, is more difficult. This presentation will cover the Verification and Validation tasks necessary to assure the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), MTTF (Mean Time to Failure), and AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) metrics are maintained and/or improved during this time period.  An actual example that was used at Agilent Technologies will be reviewed.

Kevin Foy received his BSIE from Hofstra University in New York and an MBA – Industrial Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.  He has had Quality & Reliability management experience in Aerospace Actuation Systems (BF Goodrich Aerospace), Medical Equipment (Analogic), and Vacuum Pumps/Leak Detectors (Agilent Technologies).  He is a certified Six Sigma Champion & Green Belt, Kaizen trainer, NDT Trainer, and has developed methods in Continuous Improvement & Reliability Testing.

This meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA. It will begin with personal networking at 5:30 PM.

The presentation will follow at 6:00 PM. Refreshments, compliments of the IEEE Boston Reliability Chapter, will be available.

You do not need to belong to the IEEE to attend this event; however, we welcome your consideration of IEEE membership as a career enhancing technical affiliation.

You can register on-line by visiting the Reliability Chapter website at http://www.ieee.org/bostonrel

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is located at 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA 0248.

Directions to Lincoln Laboratory: (from Interstate-95 / Route 88)

From the north (southbound): Take Exit 31B and merge onto Routes 4/225 towards Bedford; Stay in right lane and go 0.3 miles from exit.; Use Right Turning Lane just before traffic light to access Hartwell Ave. at 1st Traffic Light.; Follow Hartwell Ave. for about 1.2 miles to Wood St. Turn left onto Wood Street and drive 0.3 mile.; Turn right into MIT Lincoln Laboratory at the Wood Street Gate; Have a valid driver’s license to present to security: Attending the IEEE Reliability presentation in the cafeteria.

From the south (northbound) Take Exit 30B and merge onto Route 2A – Stay in right lane;  Go about 0.4 miles to second traffic light and turn right on to Mass. Ave (opposite Minuteman Tech.).; Follow Mass. Ave for ~ 0.4 miles.; Turn left onto Wood Street and drive for 1.0 mile.; Turn left into MIT Lincoln Lab at the Wood Street Gate; Have a valid driver’s license to present to security:Attending the IEEE Reliability presentation in the cafeteria.

Park in the Visitor Parking area. To get to the Cafeteria, proceed toward the Main Entrance of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, but before entering the building, proceed down the stairs hidden to the left of the Main Entrance. Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and enter the building through the Cafeteria entrance. The Cafeteria is located directly ahead. Web map link: http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/map.html