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-- Doug Ogden
Vice President, Customer Services

Doug Ogden, Vice President, Corporate Relations

At the 2008 Applied Reliability Symposium, we are pleased to present the Reliability Leadership Award to two companies, Seagate Technology and Delphi Thermal, in order to recognize their efforts in the area of Design for Reliability. Both companies understood the need for knowledgeable engineers to drive the DFR process and implemented corporate-wide training programs to accomplish this goal.

In 2006, Seagate Technology partnered with ReliaSoft to develop a customized, in-depth DFR training curriculum, which has been rolled out globally to hundreds of Seagate engineers as part of an overall corporate Business Excellence strategy. The curriculum has been very well received within Seagate, recently winning the award for "Best Training Program or Strategy" at the 2007 Business Excellence Seminar in San Francisco.

Delphi Thermal has always been a leader in the advancement of reliability methods and has continually embraced the DFR process to ensure product reliability. Part of their overall effort includes the certification of a number of engineers in various reliability methods, which will ensure that the DFR process goes beyond ideas and becomes part of the "DNA" of the product development cycle.

We would like to thank both companies for setting examples of world-class DFR strategies for others to follow.