• GE Power; Distributed Power Group (DFM seminar for jet-engine-powered stationary and trailered power plants)
• GE Transportation in Erie, PA; (DFM seminar and workshop for their highly successful Tier-4 Diesel Locomotive Engine)
• GE Nuclear for large worst-case scenario filters (consulting version of what is now cost/steel reduction workshop)
• GE Energy (DFM seminar for power-plant-scale fuel cells)
• Hyradix, a division of Koch Industries (DFM seminar for hydrogen reformers to convert natural gas to hydrogen for buses)
• Idatech (DFM seminar and Precision Assembly workshop for fuels-cell generators)
• IMW Industries of Canada (DFM seminar and Precision Assembly    workshops for dock-scale natural gas compressors)
• Bucyrus, div. of Caterpillar (DFM seminar and Precision Assembly  workshop for large underground mining vehicles)
• Advanced Energy Industries (seminar and workshop on large inverters for solar PV power plants)

Electronics Clients

Aerospace/Defense Clients

• four DFM seminars at Boeing in 2001 (commercial aircraft), 2 introduced by the current Under Secretary of Defense
• four DFM seminars at BAE Systems (airplane controls and infrared vision/targeting systems),
• four DFM seminars at Smiths Aerospace, now GE Aviation (aircraft control panels, starter/generators, and power supplies),
• three DFM seminars at L-3 Communications (GPS systems);
• three DFM seminars at Ball Aerospace (space and stealth aircraft space communications)
• three engagements at Loral Western Development Labs, now L-3 (military radios)
• Lockheed Martin (two-day seminar on Concurrent Engineering & Build-to-Order for Low-Volume/High-Mix Environments)
• DRS Environmental, division of Finmeccanica (DFM seminar and Cost/Steel reduction workshop  (military  shelters)
• DFM seminar and workshop at General Dynamics (aerospace and defense products)
• DFM seminar and implementation meeting at CPI Beverly Microwave Division, the radar spin-off of Varian (microwave assemblies, receiver/protectors, transmitters, magnetrons, amplifiers);
• Randtron, now L-3 (DFM seminar for radar antennas for AWACS)
• Med-Eng division of Safariland Corp (blast attenuated seats and blast suits)
•  Cobham, Seatel (DFM seminar for marine antennas)
  Cobham, Continental (DFM seminar for airborne antennas)
• Moog Aircraft, (DFM seminar for hydraulic actuators),
• Honeybee Robotics & Space Mechanisms (DFM seminar for space probe robots and mechanisms),
• FB Connectivity Lab (satellite and drone mounted electronics and optical/laser mechanisms),
• Kaiser Electronics (DFM seminar for heads-up displays for fighter jets);
• Driessen, (DFM seminar for aircraft galleys),
• Oceaneering Space Systems (DFM seminar for astronaut tools),
• B. E. Meyers (DFM seminar for locating lasers),
• Rix Industries (consulting for armored door egress mechanisms)
• Tracor werospace (now part of BAE); consulting after employment developing bomb retrieval robots and concept studies for r nuclear plant servicing robotic system

• Bayer Healthcare, Medical Device group (DFM seminar including designing product families and Product-Specific workshop for contrast media injectors used with MRI, CT, and PET scanners).
• BioNTech, in collaboration with Genentech (division of Roche) is pioneering the mRNA-based cancer cure that will be personalized to every patient (Dr. Anderson is providing expertise for manufacturing strategies and flexible processing equipment, based on his two books on mass customization)
• Atricure  which is pioneering medical devices for minimally invasive heart surgery for atrial fibrillation known as "A-Fib;" (DFM webionar for two sites)
• St. Jude Medical (two DFM seminars and an implementation meeting for pacemakers and implantible defibrillators))
• Invivo, now Philips  (three DFM seminars for  (MRI image processing)
• Salient Surgical Technology (DFM seminar, workshop, and executive overview at Salient Surgical Technology (transcollation surgical tools)
• Varian Medical Systems (DFM seminar and two workshops for Oncology radiation treatment machines)
• HP Medical Products Group, now Philips (DFM seminar for four divisions, inclusing Acusound group)
• Abiomed (DFM seminar for catheter-based blood pumps)
• Spectranetics (tooling wokrshop and DFM management overview (for cather-based lasers)
• Biolase (DFM seminar for laser-based dental surgical tools)
• Advanced Bionics (DFM seminar for Cochlear hearing implants)
• Medrad (DFM seminar for tracer injectors);
• Origin Medsystems (DFM seminar for surgical tools);
• Natus (DFM seminar for infant care products);
• Bausch & Lomb (Mass Customization seminar for Ray-Ban glasses)
• Allergan-Humphreys (DFM seminar for medical products)
• Hollister (DFM seminar and plant evaluation for ostomy products)
• plus management overviews  for Baxter Healthcare, Guidant, Salient Surgical Technology, and Spectranetics

Robot Development; repeat grouping:

• RI Automation (DFM seminar and 6 years consulting on clean room robots, including concept studies on  ultra-clean linkage-based mechanisms)
  
• Tracor werospace (now part of BAE); consulting after employment developing bomb retrieval robots and concept studies for nuclear plant  servicing robotic system.
  
• Honeybee Robotics Space Mechanisms (DFM seminar for space probe robots and mechanisms),
  
• BioNTech, in collaboration with Genentech (division of Roche).  In order to personalize cures, they brought in Dr. Anderson to develop  mass customization  strategies , for which he did concept generation for a robot that could be sterilized between patient processing.
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Commercialization Clients: repeat grouping of companies, who were taught commercialization principles and had workshops
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• BioNTech, in collaboration with Genentech  (division of Roche). Dr. Anderson was brought in to provide manufacturing strategies and flexible processing equipment to commercialize their pioneering the mRNA-based cancer cure that will be personalized to every patient

• Atricure called in Dr. Anderson to help commercialize pioneering medical devices for minimally invasive heart surgery for atrial fibrillation known as "A-Fib.."

• Hyradix, a division of Koch Industries which had a DFM seminar to help commercialize hydrogen reformers to convert natural gas to hydrogen for fuel-cell buses.

• Idatech needed DFM seminar and Precision Assembly  workshop to help commercialize fuels-cell powered generators.

• GE Transportation in Erie, PA; scheduled DFM seminar and a commercialize workshop for their Tier-4 Diesel Locomotive Engine. After that they sold 1,000 Tier 4 locomotives and drove a competitor out of the business.

• Silicon Light Machines, subsidiary of Lucas Films had a DFM seminar to help commercialize digital film projection.

• PRI Automation brought Dr. Anderson in for 6 years consulting and training, which included commercializing his own concepts of an ultra-low-cost and ultra-clean robot for semiconductor fab clean rooms, which was based on clever linkages that had no motors or rolling/sliding bearings near the wafer.

• Siemens where Dr. Anderson’s concepts relieved serious tolerance overconstraints, thus helping to commercialize very large structures for postal sorting facilities.

Miniaturized Electronics Products; repeat grouping of companies, who were taught: "DFM for Miniaturized Products."

Dr. Anderson was an internal speaker/panelist for:

• Week-long Mass Customization summit participation at Freightliner
• Panelist on assembly panel at Caterpillar (Bulldozer division)
• Panelist at Johnson Controls (Die-Hard battery group)
• EDS Consulting now AT Kearney (speech on Mass Customization)
• Price Waterhouse R&D Effectiveness Practice (presentation on DFM)
• Hewlett-Packard Engineering Conference,
• Emerson Electric (two speeches at internal conferences)
• BAE Systems (speech at evening meeting on DFM)
• Watkins-Johnson (DFM overview speech)
• National Semiconductor (Executive overview on DFM)
• Applied Materials (speech on Concurrent Engineering)
• Lam Research (two days of speeches and meetings on DFM)
• Beckman-Coulter (speech as reagent group)
• Generic CADD (now Autodesk)
• Octel
• Stanford Telecom
• Wiltron/Anritsu
• QSC Audio
• Rainbird
• Enodis
•  Schlumberger (for a speech on the future of manufacturing)
   

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Dr. Anderson can be reached at 805 924 0100 (Pacific Time Zone) or e-mail: anderson@build-to-order-consulting.com