Bob Lloyd
Bob Lloyd is president of Lloyd Consulting Group, Inc., an international Performance Excellence firm using Six Sigma, Shainin Methods and Lean in product and transactional applications. In 1981, Bob led a team of engineers at Motorola in breaking the Japanese trade barrier in electronics. Using Shainin methods, they reduced failure rates from 2%/mo (36K hrs MTBF) to 0.35%/mo (208K hrs MTBF) to become an approved supplier to NTT. They further reduced failure rates to 0.07%/mo (1M hrs MTBF) to beat all competitors in cost, quality, performance and on-time delivery to become the largest seller of pagers in Japan by 1985. He was inducted to Motorola’s Science Advisory Board in 1997 for his development of high reliability products and creation of a field correlated, product level accelerated life test that simulated 5 years of life in 1 week, reducing product time-to-market, failure rates and warranty costs for over $200 million in benefits during its first year. Bob went on to co-found Motorola’s Corporate Reliability Council, where he benchmarked and institutionalized reliability best practices across the corporation. Bob’s experience spans telecom, financial and medical, having served as Director of Product Reliability & Consumer Impact at Motorola, Director of Six Sigma/MBB at Ocwen Financial, and Director Design of Excellence at Johnson & Johnson.