Achievements
Paul Khoo, BE(UNSW), EMBA (AGSM), MIEAust., CPEng.
Experience & Achievements - a selection
Product Development & Design
- Pressure Vessel Designs : Australia's first Class1H design approval, reduced cost by 25%
- Fast Reaction Anaerobic Bioreactor (patents granted)
- Tapered Street/Stadium Lighting & Wind Farm Column Design Software development: Finite Element Analysis, wind loading
- Supercapacitor : from handmade prototype to product design for high volume manufacture
Manufacturing Innovation and Scale up
- Automotive LPG Tank Production Line : pressure vessel class 1 welding, design & build
- Stadium Lighting Masts, Wind Farm Masts Production Line: design & build
- Polymeric Microporous Hollow Fibre Membrane manufacturing process development (patents granted)
- Hollow Fibre Manufacturing Scale up: 500 fold increase
- Supercapacitor Electrode Manufacturing Plant : manufacturing development & 40 fold increase
- Supercapacitor Production Lines: automated assembly, test & inspection 4000 fold increase
Cost Reduction and Process Improvements
- Component redesign for consumer hot water system, saved $250,000 pa in 3 months
- 10% pa year on year cost reduction of hollow fibre membrane over 5 consecutive years
- Supercapacitor Product Cost reduction roadmap - 66% cost reduction over 3 years.
- Improved yield from 20% to 95+% and machine uptime from 50% to 85+%
Facility Setup Management and Technology Transfer
- Factory to manufacture tapered street & stadium lighting columns for Taperline Pty Ltd in Smithfield, NSW
- Hollow fibre manufacturing plants for Memtec Ltd in Windsor, NSW
- Supercapacitor Research and Manufacturing Centre for CAP-XX Pty Ltd in Lane Cove, NSW
- Offshore Supercapacitor manufacturing facility for CAP-XX in Penang, Malaysia
- Technology transfer of supercapacitor technology to Murata Manufacturing Corp. of Japan as part of licensing agreement with CAP-XX
Project / Program / Team Management
- Memtec's Hollow Fibre membrane Development Program
- Team Leader Memtec's Design & Sizing Software development
- Memtec's capital works program - capacity scale up, US$18M
- CAP-XX supercapacitor product development and manufacturing program
- CAP-XX capital works program US$10M
- Managing and nurturing cross functional and cross cultural teams of up to 60 people
- Guest lecturer and workshop leader, NSW Enterprise Workshop in Operations Management
