Product Engineer
Hitachi Global Storage Products, Shenzhen
Pingshan, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China
Worked in Hitachi GST Philippines and was later transferred to Hitachi GSP, Shenzhen.Models handled during my stay with Hitachi were 1.0" Microdrives, 1.8" drives (HummingBird), and 3.5" (Jupiter, Saturn, Pathfinder models) drives for Desktop.Major job descriptions:For 3.5" and 1.0" drives:> Tasks involved Yield monitoring and reporting during Development Phase to Design Maturity to Start of Normal Production giving on-time feedback for unexpected yield problems to respective correspondents. > Perform Yield FA to understand current and new detractors during new product launch and ensure that countermeasures are made and implemented in the next builds. > In charge of Rework Yield and Rework Disposition for failed drives maximizing scrap reduction by parametric optimization and by understanding major modes of fall-out by failure analysis > HDD level scrap cost reduction, and interface with different departments to implement necessary and quick actions to avoid further loss yield correctable detractors 1.8” Hummingbird (60G)> Assigned to lower HGA scrap cost by improving rework disposition and by qualifying the HGA Salvage operation in the quickest time possible while identifying the best candidates for this operation to achieve maximum recovered yield