Bringing new hardware into production on schedule.

New stor­age hard­ware had to meet man­u­fac­tur­ing qual­ity re­quire­ments within de­mand­ing launch sched­ules. The chal­lenge was to re­duce de­fect rates while keep­ing qual­i­fic­a­tion and pro­duc­tion plan­ning on track.

Man­u­fac­tur­ing tri­als were con­nected with sup­plier en­gin­eer­ing teams through a struc­tured cycle of test­ing, fail­ure ana­lysis and cor­rect­ive ac­tion. Test re­sults were fed back to sup­pli­ers. Their en­gin­eers in­vest­ig­ated and dis­as­sembled com­pon­ents on site, while more com­plex fail­ures went to spe­cial­ist sup­plier labor­at­or­ies.

The find­ings in­formed im­prove­ments, fol­lowed by fur­ther test­ing until the com­pon­ents met man­u­fac­tur­ing qual­i­fic­a­tion re­quire­ments.

Across four par­al­lel new product in­tro­duc­tion pro­jects, de­liv­ery was com­pleted on sched­ule and within budget.