Haibel Engineering LLC

EES is the premier company in minimally invasive surgical equipment.

Historically, these were highly mechanical, single-use devices.

However, some new products were energy-based, with accompanying “capital equipment” that should last from five to ten years and go through many cleaning cycles.  This was a new direction for the company.

Chet was part of the Johnson and Johnson team that developed Design Excellence (Design for Six Sigma) and personally delivered Reliability classes for first three “waves” of Design Excellence.

He re-wrote the EES corporate Risk Management Procedure and Work Instructions, and generated new forms so the process conformed to ISO 14971.  He then trained all sites of EES on Risk Management.

Chet was sent as an internal consultant to three J&J companies to educate managers and engineers on Reliability and to work on specific issues with existing products.  He designed MEOST tests to discover wearout issues, coached and helped with HALT testing, and analyzed data from reliability tests.

Chet also worked with start-up companies to help write their quality systems, especially the design control portion.  This allowed these companies to excel in third party audits and qualify to produce safe and effective prototypes for clinical trials under Investigational Device Exemptions.

He worked with part suppliers to identify process-sensitive parameters or dimensions, develop and qualify measurement systems, optimize part manufacturing processes with designed experiments, and develop control plans for critical parameters and dimensions.

Chet is the main inventor of United States Patent 6,254,623 B1 issued July 3, 2001, Ultrasonic Clamp Coagulator Surgical Instrument with Improved Blade Geometry and a co-inventor on another patent application in the area of ultrasonic surgical devices.

He has been on two teams which were awarded President’s Quality Awards for “breakthrough” category.  Chet was awarded a J&J Achievement Award and a Standards of Leadership Award.