Abstract
Our modern world, as we all experienced in these days, it’s dominated by uncertainty and volatility; in the global electronics business the competition is fiercer than ever dealing with always more demanding customers, consistency in product quality and reputation play a major role into their choices. Therefore controlling reliability and quality of productions, especially of mass productions, it is not only a matter for the operations department and for its plants located all over the world, but then it is a core value for all the parts of any modern manufacturing company. It starts with the concept and design phase itself, continues during the whole R&D activities by embedding into the company culture best practices, processes and tools that give (more) control and repeatability over (what is still) the very creative process of inventing future product and to achieve more success than failures.
About the speaker
Fabio M. Albanese received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, writing his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Metra. He holds, as well, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from IE Business School, Madrid. He is the Director of Asia Pacific R&D and the Director for Systems, Software, Software Quality and Radio Engineering (global) for the Hand-Held Scanning product-hub for the multinational group Datalogic. Datalogic is a 1 billion EUR capitalization (2019) and 3,100+ employees, electronics devices manufacturer, a global technology leader in the IoT key sectors of Automatic Data Capture (ADC) and Industrial Automation (IA).
After graduation, Mr. Albanese started a consultant career working in several electronic and software design projects in the embedded systems and the industrial automation industry. He joined Datalogic in 2005 as an HW & SW Engineer, he served for the last 15+ years in the company taking on roles of increasing responsibility and seniority (between the others as RF Senior Designer, Software Architect, New Product Engineering Manager, Global Senior Manager of SW and SW Quality). He lived in the US and in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for 4,5 years where he founded and developed from scratch the first and now the largest offshore design center of Datalogic, a center of excellence for embedded software design and software quality and control. During his tenure in Vietnam, he spent 4 years as the Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam. He’s a Scrum Master, a Member of the IEEE and of the Computer Society, and the holder of several international patents.