MR. CHET HAIBEL

Mr. Chet Haibel, M.S.E.E., Senior Principal Reliability Engineer, Medtronic ERS, Redmond, WA

Chet Haibel received Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees from Cornell University.  A Senior Member of the American Society for Quality, he is Certified by ASQ as a Reliability Engineer, Quality Engineer, Software Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Biomedical Auditor, and Manager of Quality /Organizational Excellence.

Chet has lectured internationally with Dr. Gregg K. Hobbs under the auspices of Hobbs Engineering Corporation for over 20 years.  Since March 2007, he has been a full-time, independent consultant in Reliability, Risk Management, and Quality.  Chet lives on Whidbey Island in the Seattle / Puget Sound area.

Before becoming a consultant, he was the Senior Principal Reliability Engineer at Medtronic Physio-Control, the oldest and largest medical device company making External Defibrillators.
Previously, Chet worked at Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Endo-Surgery, the premier medical device company making endoscopic surgical equipment.  There he was a Team Quality Engineer, and an internal consultant in Quality, Reliability, and Risk Mgmt.
Before that, Chet was the Reliability Engineering Mgr. at IVAC, an Eli Lilly & Co. medical device company making Infusion Pumps and Vital Signs measuring equipment.

Before medical devices, Chet worked for Hewlett-Packard as an Engineer and Project Manager on a wide variety of HP instruments.  As Quality Manager, he was instrumental in HP’s surpassing the 10X Reliability Improvement Challenge in Disk Drives.
He has two patents and has authored several technical papers.  Chet is certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt by Johnson & Johnson Company.

Click here for a summary of his class description for Introduction to Reliability & Weibull Analysis.

Click here for a summary of his class description for Medical Device Risk Management.
NEW SEMINARS
Length Course Title Instructor
1 day 17. Ensuring Reliability in Lean Product Development John Paschkewitz
1 day 18. Advancing HALT & HASS:
Moving to Comparative Limit Anaylsis		 Kirk Gray
3 hours 19. How to Effectively Implement DFR & DFSS
in a Systems Engineering Environment		 Thimmiah Gurunatha, Peng.
3 hours 20. Thunder & Lightning Accelerated Testing
in a Systems Engineering Environment		 Thimmiah Gurunatha, Peng.
3 hours Gage R & R or Measuring Systems Analysis Thimmiah Gurunatha, Peng.
3 hours Rainbow SPC Thimmiah Gurunatha, Peng.
3 hours Improving Test Effect. and Effic. using Orthogonal Arrays Thimmiah Gurunatha, Peng.
3 hours Design for Six Sigma Tools to Promote the Development of World Class Product Requirements Sam Keene
3 hours 21. Quickest Way to Reliability is to
HALT and go FISHing		 Howard Cooper, DFSS BB, DFR
2 hours 22. Understanding Shock and Vibration Alec Feinberg, Ph.D.
3 hours Physics of Failure Methods for Building-in Reliability into Products Abhijit Dasgupta, Ph.D.
3 hours 24. Intro to Design for Manufacturability Aldo Fucinari
3 hours 25. Microelectronic Pkg Issues and Failure Analysis Tom Green
CLASSES ON RELIABILITY
Length Course Title Instructor
2 days 1. Introduction to Reliability & Weibull Analysis Chet Haibel, M.S.E.E.
2 days 2. HALT & HASS + Workshop Kirk Gray
2 days 2. HALT & HASS + Workshop Chet Haibel
2 days 2a. Mastering HALT & HASS Kirk Gray
2 days 2a. Mastering HALT & HASS Chet Haibel
2 days 4. Demonstrating Reliability Chet Haibel
4 days 6. Accelerated Test Data Analysis Wayne Nelson, Ph.D.
SPECIFIC TECHNICAL CLASSES
Length Course Title Instructor
2 days 7. Physics of Failure Abhijit Dasgupta, Ph.D.
2 days 8. Lead-Free Solder Joint Reliability Jean-Paul Clech, Ph.D.
1 day 9. Medical Device Risk Management Chet Haibel, M.S.E.E.
2 days 14. Cooling Techniques for Electronic Equipment Steve Carlson
2 days 15. Preventing Shock and Vibration Failures Steve Carlson
2 days 16. Preventing Thermal & Vibration Failures Steve Carlson
CUSTOM SEMINARS OFFERED
Length Course Title Instructor
1 day 12. Integrating Adv. Quality, Reliability, Durability
(QRD) Tactics with Accelerated Product Dev.		 James G. McLeish, M.S.
3 days 13. HALT & HASS and Classical Rel. Methods Integrated Chet Haibel, M.S.E.E.

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