Session 202 : Lean Six Sigma for Quality Manufacturing |
About the Instructors: Kamal Ajitsana, Practice Head, Manufacturing, IT, Geometric Americas, Inc. Kamal Ajitsaria has been working in the area of technology led solutions for manufacturing excellence for over ten years. His experience spans across the entire manufacturing value cycle –Design for Manufacturability, Digital Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Operations Management. Kamal currently leads the Manufacturing IT Practice at Geometric Limited with special interest in Lean Six Sigma, Engineering & Manufacturing Collaboration for Product Quality Management and PLM – MES – ERP Interoperability. Prior to joining Geometric, Kamal was leading the SAP Adaptive Manufacturing Practice at TCS. Kamal has a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Iowa, USA. Kevin Kohls, Director, PMC Richard J. Schonberger, Ph.D, President, Schonberger & Associates Richard Schonberger has delivered lectures, seminars, and advisory services to industrial and business organizations globally since 1981. His latest deeply and broadly researched book is Best Practices in Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement: A Deeper Look . . . with Telling Evidence from the Leanness Studies (Wiley, 2007). He is originator of the term and concepts of world-class manufacturing via his book by that title (1986 in 7 languages), and is author of six other trade books including Japanese Manufacturing Techniques (1982 in 9 languages). Schonberger’s 150-plus articles have appeared in a wide range of academic and practitioner periodicals. Schonberger was a practicing industrial engineer, followed by 14 years as professor in management information systems and operations management at the University of Nebraska, during which he was designated George Cook Distinguished (chaired) Professor; and later as affiliate professor, Management Science, University of Washington.Currently, Richard is director of the “Global Leanness Studies” and the “World Class by Principles” international benchmarking project. Stefan Schmidt, VWI, Dipl.-Ing. Feinwerktechnik (mechanical and electrical engineering) and Dipl.-Ing. Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (industrial engineering and management, Berlin), Assistant Professor and author. Jeff 'SKI' Kinsey, Partner and Senior Consultant, Throughput.us LLC SKI has applied Critical Chain Project Management, sDBR (Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope), and consults with senior executive teams to develop business strategies and tactical plans. Yet spends most of his time on the shop floor. Degreed in Business Management Technologies from Kent State University, SKI taught Computer Science for ten years, authored "Purple Curve Effect" (Throughput Press, 2004), has keynoted manufacturing events, and had numerous articles published in business journals dating back to 1998. He completed additional training in Quality Control and Business Process Engineering at A.Y. Goldratt Institute, Goal Systems International, and Malone College. Jim Akers, Customer Quality Engineer, Woodward Jim Akers is a Customer Quality Engineer and Black Belt with the Woodward Governor Company in Rockford, IL. Jim was a part of the Woodward’s Global Continuous Improvement Group for 7 years and is an adjunct instructor at Southern Illinois University and Rock Valley College. Jim has worked in the fields of electronics, wireless telecommunications, and aerospace.
A primary role of Woodward’s Global Continuous Improvement Group is mentoring and training Black Belts and Green Belts in the Six Sigma methodologies and working with the leadership team to implement Six Sigma and Lean globally.
Jim is a Senior ASQ Member, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), and Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB). Jim received an A.A. from Rock Valley College, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology and a M.S. in Manufacturing Systems from Southern Illinois University.
Maria Stoleova, President, Integrated Quality Strategies Corporation/University of Calgary Maria has 10 years of teaching, research and consulting experience in the quality area. Maria holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Engineering (equivalent) from Vladimir State University (Russia), Master's degrees in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University (USA), in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas (USA), and in Metrology from Vladimir State University. She taught courses in operations management, decision analysis, supply chain management, quality improvement, applied engineering statistics, and metrology at U.S., Canadian, and Russian universities. Maria worked on research projects in the fields of quality assurance and international quality standards. She completed a number of consulting projects in the quality improvement area working with manufacturing and service companies. Maria is a "Six Sigma - Green Belt" and an ASQ Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Engineer and Certified Quality Auditor. Robert Rhyder, President, Rhyder Association, Inc. Robert F. Rhyder is president of Rhyder Associates, Inc., a Jacksonville, FL firm specializing in problem-solving and process optimization techniques. An ASQ-Certified Quality Engineer and an ASQ-Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, he has more than twenty years of experience in the practical application of process optimization and designed experimentation techniques in a variety of companies such as Bethlehem Steel, Wagner Lighting, and Anchor Hocking Packaging. He is a former vice president of quality for the Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex Company, and a former director of engineering, quality, and R&D for Garlock Bearings, Inc. Bob is a graduate of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. An expert at process optimization, Bob Rhyder is the author of Manufacturing Process Design and Optimization, ©1997, Marcel Dekker. Available through the websites of many internet booksellers or from the current publisher, CRC Press, this work covers basic process design principles, problem-solving techniques for simple and complex processes, and the practical application of designed experimentation in real-world settings. More recently, Bob has been documenting and training others in the techniques and procedures needed to achieve sustainable levels of performance that are measured in terms of double-digit sigma levels, i.e., surpassing 10 sigma. The application of these techniques has yielded improvements that are orders of magnitude beyond many standard approaches. |
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