Chuck White has over twenty years of experience in medical device product development and manufacturing with a focus in electro-optics. Prior to becoming a consultant, he was the Director of Operational Excellence for the Respiratory Division of Covidien, previously known as Nellcor Puritan Bennett. He has a black belt in Design for Six Sigma and broad experience in design controls.
Design for Six Sigma can significantly improve product quality, customer satisfaction, time to market and manufacturability. DFSS collects the voice of the customer and focuses efforts in the early stages of the design cycle to develop robust requirements. It then applies well established statistical methods to achieve and demonstrate conformity to those requirements. DFSS also contains a set of tools to improve reliability, testability and reproducibility. These align very well with the intent of design controls and can help device manufacturers be more profitable while improving compliance to design controls.
