Six Sigma Design

Xiaoping Liu

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Profile

> Over 16 years successful track record in leading deployment and

implementation of Continuous Process Improvements (CPI) and Design for

Six Sigma (DFSS) to improve and innovate processes and products in the

entire product development cycle in regulated industries and

organizations in the North America and Europe and in transforming the

firefighting environment to the preventive, systematic and scientific one

to help engineers and scientists to be more productive and to improve the

quality of their work.

> Six Sigma Skills: Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), DMAIC, Stage-Gate business

process, product develop and management process, Kaizen, VSM, QFD,

Critical Parameter Management (CPM), risk management, SPC & data

analytics, complex design of experiments (DOE), reliability and robust

engineering, methods and process validation, statistical engineering,

probabilistic modeling and computer simulation, statistical tolerance

design and analysis, Principal Components Analysis, Root Cause Analysis

(RCA), acceptance sampling plan.

Working Experience

> Bausch+Lomb (Eye Health Industry), 1400 Goodman st., Rochester NY -

08/2006 to Present:

o Design for Six Sigma MBB:

. Deploy DFSS process in a new medical device product development from

conceptual phase to launch for three years; work with cross functional

teams and utilize various DFSS tools. The device was successfully

launched with high performance capability.

. Lead and support process excellence projects in manufacturing sites

and deploy root cause analysis method to identify the critical

operations, truly understand the root causes and improve operational

efficiency and increase OEE.

. Lead and support DFSS infrastructure and organizational development,

and manage all

aspects of the deployment of DFSS by facilitating the implementation

and certification, developing DFSS tools and training materials,

teaching in Black Belt Lean Six Sigma waves training, and leading

applications of DFSS process in large and important projects.

. Mentor scientists, engineers, functional and project managers in

executing their DFSS projects; create a robust engineering environment

and process; act as an internal technical consultant and problem

solving go to expert.

. Lead and support the integration of medical device design control,

Stage-Gate product development process and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)

to accelerate product speed to market and enable data driven decision

makings.

. Lead development of stability trending profiles for all of marketed VC

solution products. The work filled the company's empty in this area

and won approval from FDA. The work also won B+L 2010 Focus on

Excellence award.

> Ford Motor Company (Automotive Industry), Dearborn, MI - 06/1998 to

08/2006:

o Senior Reliability Engineer & DFSS Black Belt:

. Develop the company 1st probabilistic simulation model for predicting

tire belt-edge separation failure rate in the Firestone tire recall

taskforce project. The work won 2002 Research Technical Achievement

Award and nomination for Henry Ford Technology Award.

. Lead development of advanced reliability and robustness design method

under Ford Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) steering committee, received a

US patent (#6,931,366) on "Method and Apparaus for Analyzing a Design"

in 2005.

. Lead Power Liftgate Robustness Design DFSS team, perform the system

benchmarking, Kano Model analysis, FMEA analysis and computer

experimental design, robustness optimization. Significantly improve

robustness of the liftgate open/closure performance. The project was

selected as one of company's best DFSS projects.

. Lead a 6-Sigma Kaizen event that completed D-M-A-I-C process in 5

days, achieved 53% warranty parts receiving errors reduction and save

$430,000 per year for the company. This team won the president's 'True

Blue News' recognition award.

. Lead and support over 30 DFSS projects for vehicle product

development, preventing design failure, developing robust product

design upfront.

. Develop a DOE based multi-objective optimization method for large

systems, which significantly increases efficiency of optimization

process. The method was published in the Ford Technical Journal.

> Engineering & Management Specialist Inc. Chicago, IL - 01/1998 to

06/1998:

o Senior CAE Engineer:

. Developed finite element model of nuclear power station pipe stands

using STARDYAN software and performed structural dynamic and aseismic

analysis.

> Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN - 09/1994 to 12/1997:

o Research Assistant:

. Conducted researches in probabilistic simulation and reliability-based

design methods for large structures.

. Ph.D. Dissertation: "System Reliability Based Optimization of

Composite Aircraft Wing"

> Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China - 06/1986 to 08/1993:

o Lecturer:

. College courses taught included: Structural Reliability, Finite

Element Analysis, Structural Steel Design, and Computer Programming

etc.

Education

. Ph.D. in Structural Reliability Engineering, Vanderbilt University,

Nashiville TN: 12/97

. M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing,

China: 05/86

. B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing,

China: 07/83

Selected Training, Awards and Professional Membership

. B+L 2010 Focus on Excellence award, Bausch + Lomb: 2010.

. Monte Carlo Simulation and Project Timeline Management using @Risk by

Palisade Co., : 07/2008

. Certificate of B+L Product Development and Management Process,

Rochester NY: 04/2008.

. Risk Management to Medical Devices, by Advancement of Medical

Instrument, Rochester NY: 05/2007.

. Design Control - FDA's Quality System Regulation, by AAMI, Washington,

DC: 03/2007.

. Development Planning, by Compliance Inc., Rochester NY: 02/2007

. Patent: "Method and Apparatus for Analyzing a Design", 08/2005.

. Six Sigma Champion & Leadership program, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI,

US: 2004.

. DFSS Black Belt (BB) Certification and Master Black Belt training

(MBB), Ford Motor Co.,

Dearborn, MI: 10/2002-10/2004.

. Research Technical Achievement Award and nomination for Henry Ford

Technology Award (HFTA), Ford Motor Co., 2002.

. Member, Probabilistic Methods Committee of SAE International

. Member, SAE Reliability Applications Committee

. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

Travel

. Willing to travel up to 50%

Reference

. Available upon request

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