Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) has been consistently ranked top on quality and reliability in HDD industry. The most recent awards include HP Quality Award, Supplier Excellence Award from Google, and Number One Supplier recognition from Sony for the best quality, reliability, and service. This presentation provides an experience sharing of HGST’s success story with best practices in quality and reliability.
It covers the following topics:
1. HGST Quality and Reliability philosophy & vision
2. Define Quality and Reliability leadership and team building
3. Understand Product Life-Cycle Reliability Pattern and Define Closed-Loop Reliability Activities
4. Define Quality and Reliability Matrices and Conduct Reliability Prediction and Allocation
5. Assure System Quality & Reliability Starting from Bottom - Component and Supplier Quality Monitoring
6. Grow/Mature Product Reliability during Development
7. Ongoing Quality & Reliability Monitoring during Volume Production
8. Holistic product health monitoring and proactive processes – parametric Quality and Reliability
9. “Ochibo” spirit – learn from “mistakes” through Problem Deep Diving and continuous improvement
It is hoped that the audience can get a systematic view and appreciation of reliability efforts behind a successful company.
2. ASQ Reliability Division
ASQ Reliability Division
Chinese Webinar Series
Chinese Webinar Series
One of the monthly webinars
One of the monthly webinars
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reliability engineers.
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