Six SIGMA for Electronics Design and Manufacturing

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The nuts, bolts and math of actually implementing Six Sigma in electronics manufacturing


Six Sigma is a customer-based manufacturing approach to realizing fewer defects and thus lowering costs and increasing customer satisfaction. This is a rigorous engineering book detailing the gritty, statistical work involved in making the Six Sigma process work in the electronics industry.

SAMMY G. SHINA, P.E. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and has previously lectured at the University of Pennsylvania's EXMSE Program and at the University of California, Irvine. He is a past chairman of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Robotics/FMS, a founding member of the Massachusetts Quality Award, and a member of the Masschusetts Engineering advisory committee for NTU. He is the author of two best-selling books on concurrent engineering and has contributed two chapters and over 75 technical publications in his fields of research.

Dr. Shina is an international conculstant, trainer and seminar provider on quality, six sigma, and DoE, as well as project management, technology supply chains, product design and development, and electronics manufacturing and automation. He worked for 22 years in high-technology companies developing new products and sate of the art manufacturing technologieds. He was a speaker for the HP Executive Seminars on Concurrent Product/Process Design, Mechanical CAD Design and Test, and the Motorola Six Sigma Institute. He received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Management from MIT, an S.M. degree in Computer Science from WPI, and a Sc.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University. He resides in Framingham, Massachusetts.