William B. Line, President of DOES, Inc., has 35 years of product development experience.
Bill is currently working on
developing an insulin inhaler for diabetics to eliminate the use of injected
insulin. Inhaled insulin, developed by Pfizer,
has been called the greatest improvement for diabetics since the
invention of insulin in the 1920s. He previously helped develop a pulmonary
drug delivery device to deliver small particles. He worked with
Allegheny-Teledyne-Allvac and General Electric using statistical Design of
Experiments (DOE) to develop a dry-powder metal alloy for use in a GE Aircraft
engine. He used DOE to certify a copper alloy for use in high moisture
environments for the Federal Metal Company. He recently completed a research
project in Indonesia and another in Sweden, developing a fruit beverage.
He has designed tests for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) using third and
fourth-order models to predict flight parameters from wind tunnel tests. These
models were used to test the space shuttle. For NASA he developed other
statistical methods to calibrate force moment balances. These methods reduced
the amount of testing by 90% and improved the accuracy of calibrations. The
savings to NASA are $500,000. per test. NASA patented this method that was
developed by DOES staff.
Bill was a Reliability Test
Engineer for Martin Company in developing the Patriot Surface-to-Air
missile used in the Persian Gulf war to shoot down Scud missiles. He
helped develop the Sprint missile of the Nike-X Zeus defense system. He has
consulted with Lockheed-Martin developing a system to predict and control
flight parameters for the F-16 fighter plane. F-16 predictions were
substantially improved, while reducing the amount of test data required and
saving costs. He has Top Secret military clearance.
DOES
Institute, founded and managed by Mr. Line, has worked directly with MIT,
George Washington University, Dr. J.M. Juran and the Juran Institute, W.
Edwards Deming and the Deming Institute, John Wiley & Sons books in
developing and distributing quality improvement technology, CD-ROMs and
software to organizations worldwide.
William B. Line has conducted statistical seminars in London, Honduras, Nicaragua, Winston-Salem and San Francisco for the education of industry, government, and academic personnel. These seminars featured Dr. George Box, Dr. Ray Myers and other excellent speakers and emphasized the use of statistical methods for product improvement. He has taught statistical methods at Rollins University in Winter Park, Florida. For 25 years, he has taught many in-house training courses in statistics for RJ Reynolds Nabisco and KOBE Copper Company of Japan.
Mr. William B. Line is
particularly proud of his 20-year working association with Dr. George E. P.
Box, FRS, who developed Response Surface Methods, Evolutionary Operations, and
Box-Jenkins forecasting. He has also worked with Dr. Norman Draper (author of
the book - Applied Regression Analysis) in developing Higher-Order models for
NASA. He worked for 25 years with Dr. Ray Myers, VPI to develop many new
statistical test designs to reduce sample size and reduce test costs.
He has been an employee of
the Martin-Marietta Company, Magnavox, and Senior Statistician for the R.J.
Reynolds Nabisco Company. In his career, he has developed processes for ,
drugs, aircraft, apparel, candy, paper, metal, agriculture, tobacco,
automobiles, and missile systems.
He has BS and MS degrees from the University of Tennessee where he studied under Professor David S. Chambers. He majored in Mathematical Statistics, with emphasis on Experimental Design. He has been a member of Toastmasters International speakers club for 25 years.
Publications:
Peter A. Parker (NASA LaRC),
Michael Morton (RJ Reynolds), Dr. Norman R. Draper (University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI), William Line (DOES Institute), “A
Single-Vector Force Calibration Method Featuring the Modern Design of
Experiments,” presented at the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 38th Aerospace Sciences
Meeting & Exhibit, 10 January 2000.
William B. Line, Matt
Zugowski, “Certification of Federal
Metal Alloy C89833 Using a Designed Experiment (DOE),” 24 September 2002; to be presented to the American Society for
Testing Materials (ASTM), October
2003.
William B. Line, Principal
Investigator, “Force Balance Calibration
Models For Aircraft Testing"
(NASA Order No L – 12406), 6 September 2000. (This work saved NASA
millions of dollars per year, thus NASA patented it). Mr. Line’s name is on the
patent.
William B. Line, Principal
Investigator, “Force Balance Calibration
Models For Aircraft Testing” (NASA Order No L – 11326),
27 July 27 2000.
William B. Line, Principal Investigator, “Fourth Order Model Terms For Aircraft Testing” (NASA Order
No L –69266D), 23 September 1999.
William B. Line,
Principal Investigator, “Third
Order Model Terms for Aircraft Testing” (NASA Order
No L-7910), 15 September 1998.