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Improvement Group
3801 N. Capital of TX Hwy
E-240 #221
Austin, Texas 78746
E-mail: info@lean-strategies.com
Tel. 512-922-9281
Who are we?
Lean Strategies Group, LLC is an independent consulting firm. It has three principals and a number of experienced associates.
What do we do?
Lean Strategies Group leads, instructs, and jump-starts companies in becoming
lean in their manufacturing, product development, and/or supplier relations
activities.
How do we do it?
Lean Strategies Group teaches by doing. It believes in hands-on involvement, using
highly experienced experts. It works with you in developing your lean
strategy, prioritizing the needed changes, and implementing them to the point
of self-sustaining continuous improvement.
Skills and Qualifications of Principals &
Associates
- Experience with
overall business strategies, linking operational improvements to
business goals.
- Experienced
practitioners in several areas: Product Development, Lean Manufacturing,
and Lean Supply Chain.
- Associates use a wide
range of tools: value-stream management, TPM, JIT, SMED, Kaizen, and
many others.
- Consulting experience
in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, China, Far East, Spain, Scotland,
Ireland
- Fluent in English and
Spanish
Luis Contreras
- 25+ years of lean
consulting experience in electronics, aerospace, automotive, and consumer
electronics. Assignments include product development, order fulfillment
and supply chain management.
- Expert in Six-sigma
quality and new product design, with considerations for reliability,
assembly, and testing
- BSME - Monterey Tech;
Ph.D. - Georgia Tech in Process Improvement
Jeff S. MacMillan
- 20+ years experience
of Lean Manufacturing & Supply Chain.
- Plant Manager of 700
employee Japanese/US Joint Venture OEM auto parts supplier.
- Authored “The
Development Dozen – A Six Sigma Engineered approach to the
Development of Ambulatory Care Facilities”
- Completed the
“GabLab” project for a generic drug manufacturer – a
Lean Laboratory cell dedicated to testing Gabapentine Hydrochloride
($2.4M savings)
- Conducted numerous
Feasibility Studies for Ambulatory Surgery & Imaging Centers
- Adjunct Professor at Marquette University,
Guest Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame
- BSIE Purdue University,
MBA Marquette
- PE, Licensed Engineer
Tom Mast
- Over thirty years
management and consulting experience in manufacturing and engineering in
personal computers, electronic and semiconductor equipment, metal
stamping and forging, metal fabrication and machining, and assembly.
Four patents.
- Expert in supply chain
management, quality systems, information systems, and engineering
documentation.
- APICS - CPIM &
CIRM
- BSME - University of Texas; MSME - Stanford; MBA -
Harvard
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