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Duane
L. Dietrich
Director of Consulting Services, ReliaSoft Corporation
Dr. Duane L. Dietrich is the Director of ReliaSoft Consulting Services. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona. During his 30 years on the faculty his teaching responsibilities were in
the areas of statistical quality control, reliability, and engineering statistics. He has served as a consultant to numerous companies and
government agencies both nationally and internationally. Some of his
more notable clients have been the US Army, the US Navy, IBM, Motorola,
and Xerox. He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Reliability and has served in this capacity for eight
years. He was also a guest co-editor for a special issue of the IIE
Transaction devoted to reliability and quality
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Hugh
W. Broome
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering
Technology, East Tennessee State University
Hugh Broome is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering
Technology at East Tennessee State University. He has a MA degree in
Mathematics from East Tennessee State University and a MS in Reliability
Engineering from the University of Arizona. He has over thirty years of
experience in teaching electronics and manufacturing courses as well as
courses in SPC, quality and reliability engineering, and operations research. He is both a certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and a
Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE). He was the author of the Reliability
and Risk Management: The American Society for Quality’s (ASQ)
Foundations in Quality (Learning Series), published by The Holmes
Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, and is a senior member of the ASQ.
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Carl S. Carlson
Senior Reliability Engineer, ReliaSoft Corporation
Carl Carlson is a consultant and instructor in the areas of FMEA,
reliability program planning and other reliability engineering and
management disciplines. He has 20
years experience in reliability engineering and management positions at
General Motors, most recently Senior Manager for the Advanced Reliability
Group. Mr. Carlson co-chaired the cross-industry team to develop the
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J1739 for Design/Process/Machinery
FMEA and participated in the development of the SAE JA 1000/1
Reliability Program Standard Implementation Guide. He has also chaired
technical sessions for the Reliability Track of the Annual SAE
Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability and Logistics (RMSL)
Symposium, was a four-year member of the Reliability and Maintainability
Symposium (RAMS) Advisory Board and served for five years as Vice Chair
for the SAE's G-11 Reliability Division.
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Larry H. Crow
Consultant
Dr. Larry H. Crow is an independent consultant as well as
an instructor and consultant for ReliaSoft Corporation in
the areas of reliability growth and repairable system data
analysis. Previously, Dr. Crow served as Vice President,
Reliability and Sustainment Programs at Alion Science and
Technology in Huntsville, Alabama. He held this position
at IIT Research Institute before Alion was established in
2002 by 1600 former IITRI employees. Prior to that, Dr.
Crow was Director, Reliability at General Dynamics Advanced
Technology Systems (formerly Bell Laboratories ATS). Before
joining Bell Laboratories in 1985, Dr. Crow was chief of
the Reliability Methodology Office at the U.S. Army Materiel
Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA). He developed the Crow
(AMSAA) model and the Crow Projection model, which have
been incorporated into U.S. DoD military handbooks as well
as national and international standards and service regulations
on reliability. Dr. Crow chaired the Tri-Service Committee
to develop U.S. MIL-HDBK-189, Reliability Growth Management
and is the principal author of that document. He is also
the principal author of the IEC 61164, Reliability Growth-Statistical
Tests and Estimation Methods. He developed the widely
used N.H.P.P. Power Law model for analyzing repairable systems
reliability, which is featured in the new IEC 61710,
Goodness-of-Fit and Estimation Methods for the Power Law
Model.
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William Haughey
Consultant
Bill Haughey is a consultant and instructor in the areas of
Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design Review Based on Failure
Modes (DRBFM), Design Review Based on Test Results and other GD3
methodologies. Bill worked for over 33 years at General Motors holding
multiple manufacturing and engineering positions, and recently helped
Tatsuhiko Yoshimura globally implement the GD3 methodology at General
Motors. Based on Bill’s successful training at GM locations in
Australia, Mexico, Canada and the U.S., Tatsuhiko Yoshimura considers Bill
a subject matter expert in the GD3 methodologies, including DRBFM and
DRBTR. He was also the global process lead for FMEA and Design for
Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM/A) at GM. Bill is currently a member of
the SAE FMEA committee to develop the standard to update J1739.
Bill received his Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan
and Masters from Central Michigan University. While at GM, Bill received
the following certifications:
Black Belt in GD3 (DRBFM and DRBTR);
Master Design For Manufacturability and Assembly Engineer; and
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James
N. McBride
Consultant
Dr. McBride spent 28 years at IBM as a Manufacturing, Supplier Quality,
and Development Engineer. During that time he participated in developing
many short courses. He also conducted more than 200 short courses in
Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Basic
Statistics, and Reliability Engineering for IBM. Dr. McBride has
been a full time consultant for the past ten years. As a consultant
he has developed and delivered courses worldwide in FMEA and Root Cause
Failure Analysis in addition to DOE, SPC, Reliability Analysis, and Basic
Statistical Methods.
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Dennis
Wilkins
Retired Hewlett-Packard Senior Reliability Specialist
Dennis Wilkins has over 40 years
of experience in the electronics industry, including design engineering,
project management, manufacturing management and quality management. While
at Hewlett-Packard Company he coordinated reliability improvement projects
across a number of HP divisions and was frequently invited to consult and
train at HP divisions worldwide. Mr. Wilkins authored and published an
Engineering Statistics Handbook still used internally by HP and has taught
statistical methods to hundreds of HP engineers and managers. After retiring
from a 33+-year career at HP, Mr. Wilkins established PVA
Reliability Management, LLC, which provides consulting and training services
to industry and has consulted for companies in the US, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Wilkins holds an M.S.E.E. from Oregon State University.
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