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Uyemura Augments Management Team
November 20, 2015 | UyemuraEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Uyemura Director of Operations Don Walsh has announced the appointment of Patrick Valentine as Manager of Six Sigma & Business Development. This new position, explains Walsh, "combines leadership of a 'Tier 1' business initiative with responsibility for a key territory." The territory includes UIC's largest customer, and the Pacific Northwest.
Valentine is a 35-year veteran of the PCB and chip industries; most recently, he was Global Director of Lean Six Sigma and Technology Excellence for OM Group Electronic Chemicals Division.
“My goal for this new position,” says Valentine, “is to further advance the implementation of Six Sigma principles within Uyemura, and to adapt these tools as an ‘added value’ for its customers.
“Six Sigma is about reducing defects and accelerating process speeds – the two metrics most critical to customers’ ability to compete,” he explains. “The key is to choose techniques that can deliver the greatest benefit to each individual company.
“There’s a lot of room to grow this territory,” he observes, “particularly in the advanced packaging sector. Uyemura has built an excellent reputation for final finishes - ENIG, ENEPIG, tin, silver - also acid coppers, particularly their market-leading via fill chemistry. That, and high quality distributed products (MEC and Umicore) give UIC a major advantage in the marketplace.”
Valentine is certified as a reliability engineer and a Six Sigma Black Belt by the American Society for Quality. He holds Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification from Arizona State University’s Fulton School of Engineering, and is a certified IPC trainer for the IPC-A-600 Acceptability of Printed Boards, and J-STD-001 Soldered Electronics Acceptance. He has published widely on the science of reliability testing and process control.
This announcement is a continuation of Uyemura’s expansion of US operations, a multi-year initiative that will continue throughout 2016.
Uyemura International Corporation
240 Town Line Road
Southington, CT 06489
(800) 243-3564
Visit www.uyemura.com
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