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CONSULTING SERVICES
With product launch cycles getting shorter and shorter,
swift implementation of new productivity tools is a critical
requirement for success. In an ever changing market, where
product development success is always judged in the context
of time-to-market, companies must strive to use as many of
these productivity tools as possible to gain a strategic
advantage over their competition.
DFMA® Consulting Services at Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc.
allows for the swift implementation of this new technology
giving your company the strategic edge over your
competition. Using Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc. to help with
your DFMA tasks, and making DFMA an everyday part of the way
your organization does business, is the main goal of BDI's
Consulting Services. So, if your company has limited
dedicated resources for DFMA analysis and/or accelerated
product launch cycles, contracted DFMA consulting is the
right choice for your organization.
Consulting Services Offerings:
DFA Product Assessment
Benchmark analysis of products using Design for Assembly (DFA)
DFM Product Costing
Costing of parts, subassemblies and entire products
Consultants
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Chris Tsai has over 20 years of
engineering, change management, and leadership experience with the
Eastman Kodak Company. Most of that time was spent in the equipment
product design and manufacturing portion of Kodak’s business (i.e.
digital cameras, scanners, printers, medical imaging devices, etc.). He
has held positions in product & tooling design engineering,
manufacturing engineering, project management, and quality management.
Early in his career, he established himself as a corporate subject
matter expert in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) and Design for
Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) and later expanded that expertise to Lean
Six Sigma being certified as a Black Belt and becoming a corporate Lean
Six Sigma instructor. He has developed and delivered corporate training
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- Chris has been
recognized as a leader of change through his work in Lean Six Sigma.
Chris participated and led numerous DMAIC and DFSS initiatives in
Kodak’s various businesses. This
work included deployment strategy, training development & delivery, and
mentoring of both teams and individuals.
- Chris functioned as a
corporate subject matter expert in Value Analysis/Value Engineering
(VA/VE) and Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA) providing
consulting services to Kodak’s various product development teams.
For over a decade, he was the deployment steward for Boothroyd
Dewhurst, Inc. DFMA software providing “just in time” training and
application advice.
- As Quality Manager in Kodak’s Health Imaging business,
Chris led the deployment of new problem solving and supplier quality
management processes. These processes
were integrated into the Lean Six Sigma operational strategy for the
business and drove an order of magnitude improvement in product and process
quality.
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Founder & President of Creative Design Solutions, a comprehensive
product development consulting firm. Bob was with HP and Agilent
Technologies for 27 years and has been a Boothroyd Dewhurst Workshop
Instructor for over 18 years where he has trained over 2,500 engineers
in DFMA and Creative Design. His 21 years of manufacturing experience
includes extensive instrumentation product development and PCA/SMT
process engineering and 6 years of R&D Design experience in both high
volume products and specials. Bob is the published author in DFA for 2
university textbooks and is a past president of the Rocky Mountain
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- Able to lead & inspire groups to achieve breakthrough results.
18 years experience in training over 2,500 engineers in DFMA and Creative Design
- ‘Hands on’ Manufacturing Experience. 21 years of personal manufacturing experience including
extensive instrumentation product development, as well as PCA/SMT process engineering
- ‘Hands on’ R&D Experience. 6 years R&D design experience in both high volume products
and specials
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Gerald Burke started at Ford Motor Company as a Skilled Trades
Apprentice and graduated in 1964. He returned to school and received a
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was also
credited as a Certified Manufacturing Engineer with the Society of
Mechanical Engineering. The hands on, supervisory, and managerial
positions that he held while at Ford were in production assembly, plant
engineering, manufacturing engineering, product engineering, corporate
manufacturing staff and the engineering materials and standards office.
From 1984 to 1989, Gerald was Ford’s worldwide corporate Design for
Assembly (DFA) trainer and consultant. After 34 years with Ford, Gerald
retired to devote himself full time as president of J&J Engineering,
Inc.
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- Gerald has been an associate trainer and consultant for
Boothroyd Dewhurst since 1989.
- Benchmarked, consulted and
trained for over 110 companies on over 200 different programs. These
companies include Aerospace, Agriculture, Consumer Products,
Department of Defense, Electrical & Electronics, Energy Systems,
Medical Appliances and Systems, Mining Equipment,
Telecommunications, Transportation, Utilities and many others.
- Presented papers and presentations to the Society of Automotive
Engineers Conference, University of Michigan Management Briefing Conference,
Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Eastern Michigan University, Product Design
for Manufacturing and Assembly Conference, and Robotics Today magazine.
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For more details or to schedule any of our services, please contact us.
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