Frank Glaug
Director of Product Development & Innovation at Irving Personal Care Ltd.
- Role
- Director of Product Development at Irving Personal Care Ltd
- Location
- Eau Claire, WI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Frank Glaug
Strategic Innovative Leadership (with 75 issued US Patents): 1) TECHNOLOGY - over 40 yrs. of \"combined\" Product Development & Engineering experience (high speed machines) reducing time for market launch. 2) LEGAL - patent clearance (defensive), patent protection (offensive) and “patent estate mapping” of new innovations for keeping the competition from copying new product innovations. 3) MARKET - MBA degree with intuitive sense of business potential and identifying new/unmet consumer needs. Created & launched Stretch Briefs (2016), Male Guards with Cuffs (2017) and Overnight Underwear (2018) for WALMART as sole supplier! Strategy is to provide WALMART with ”new product innovations” each year that are not “me too”, patent protected and will continually grow their business well into the future. Developed & launched SMART “electronic” Underpad in 2018 for Hill Rom (Healthcare). This product signals the nurse, on their cell phone, of when to change the product. Created & launched original ASSURANCE Protective Underwear (US Patent 6,478,786)@ WALMART in - one of the most successful disposable products in the incontinence business. Led product development for Retail Incontinence (19••••03), which grew 200% in 6 yrs.(over $250 MM annual sales in Retail). Inventor of Breakthrough (Zero-Waste) Protective Underwear (European Patent EP1,656,089), most efficient pant design for high speed production (i.e. Covidien\'s SURECARE product line). Also, led product development for Clinical Incontinence (19••••03), which had sales over $250 MM and was the first to introduce the Hook & Loop/Cloth-like Adult Briefs (Wings HL) in the US and 3D Adult Briefs. Inventor of: 1. “Cool Alert\" for Pull-Ups @ K-C (US Patent 5,649,914 issued on July 22, 1997 and 5,702,376). Tabbed \"Ultra Thin\" Sanitary Napkins @ J&J (US Patent 5,217,448). Supreme Adult Briefs \"clothlike & breathable\"(US Patent 6,307,120)@ TYCO. Male Guards (US Design Patent 422,076)@ Confab.
Experience
Director of Product Development
Jul 2020 — Present · Chester Springs, PA
Education
Fairleigh Dickinson University
MBA
1988 — 1994
Pratt Institute
BS
1977 — 1980
Middlesex County College
AAS
1975 — 1977
Skills
- Spc
- Change Management
- Strategic Planning
- Product Development
- Value Stream Mapping
- Supply Chain Management
- Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Plastics
- Product Innovation
- Materials
- Tpm
- Dmaic
- Operations Management
- Injection Molding
- Quality Management
- Marketing
- Quality System
- Iso
- Polymers
- Competitive Analysis
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Intellectual Property
- Product Launch
- Training
- Medical Device R
- Business Strategy
- Business Networking
- Process Improvement
- Strategy
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Marketing Research
- Forecasting
- Kaizen
- Fmea
- Project Management
- Testing
- Iso 13485
- Program Management
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