Matt offers more than 15 years of experience as an industrial engineer, trainer, change agent and management consultant helping small to large hospitals and Fortune 25 to 1000 manufacturing corporations.

Matt’s “Lean Thinking” pedigree stems from Lean Sensei’s at Freudenburg, NOK, Toyota Motor Corporation and a vast array of businesses that have successfully forged through continuous improvement initiatives.

Accomplishments:
• Cumulative cost savings amounting to nearly $30 million dollars
• Worked with more than 100 companies across North America and Western Europe
• Trained nearly 3,500 employee’s in lean Thinking, six sigma, quality and performance improvement
• Performed over 100 Lean Kaizen events that total over $10 million in cost savings
• Managed over 75 industrial projects including outsourcing, new equipment installs & logistics, plant consolidation, and commercial zoning and construction saving $100,000 to $2 million dollars on each project.
• Designed over 25 manufacturing/hospital facilities ranging from 1,000 to 1 million square feet

Matt’s exceptional understanding of the human side of change and a value driven world allow him to relate to people, listen to what they are truly after, and provide ideas and solutions that enable More Effective success. back to top

Robin's expertise is in both Six Sigma and Lean Thinking strategies. Having taught dozens of Six Sigma Green and Black Belts, as well as Lean change agents, Robin has a true gift with training people in basic and advanced concepts and transfering those skills into breakthrough results.

Robin has conducted over 25 Lean and DMAIC events that have realized savings between $9,000 and $200,000 per event. These savings could only be accomplished through drawing the best out of people and fostering them through post kaizen sustainment efforts. Some Kaizen and DMAIC project examples are productivity (freeing $1.9 Million in capacity), machine setup reduction (30-70% improvement), and order entry / lead time reduction (6 days & $200,000). 

Robin excels by forging through a variety of industries like capital equipment manufacturing, printing and paper, hospitality, transactional businesses and service industries where her entire span of performance improvement tools have been used. Moreover, Robin has enjoyed helping companies engage their entire organization through a cultural and strategic transformation.

Robin has been a Production Manager, Corporate Black Belt and Management Consultant. She also holds a BS degree in Engineering from Princeton University, an MBA from the University of Vermont, and a PE (Professional Engineer) license. back to top

A Master Black Belt with more than 15 years experience leading in quality in automotive, electronics, metal stampings, and plastics industries. Brian has inordinate knowledge and a breadth of experiences in six sigma, lean manufacturing, quality engineering, manufacturing management, and ISO/QS9000 quality systems.

 Some specific examples of his experience:

• Certified over 400 green and black belts in six sigma training and projects.

• Managed 7 product line supervisors responsible for over 400 hourly union employees, 2 schedulers, and 2 expediters for seven distinct product lines serving the Automotive Industry.

• Saved companies he has served over $10 Million dollars in cumulative savings

• Managed ISO implementations and auditing programs

• Served lean manufacturing projects as Kaizen leader in projects encompassing 3P (Production Planning Process, 5S, Productivity, Cycle Time reduction and Quality)

• Established Lean Performance Management Systems for three manufacturing companies that aligns shop floor performance results with P&L effectiveness back to top

Mike brings with him a breadth of industrial engineering experiences that provide clients swift and decisive analysis, designs and solutions. 

Mike helps clients in difficult expansion, flow and process design challenges by providing lean manufacturing perspectives or capacity growth and flexibility decisions. Clients appreciate the spectrum of his expertise from shop floor operations management to executive team facility and design advice.

There is another professional side of Mike with a passion for user interface product designs and human factor engineering that give clients a broad array of human and technical expertise. Mikes latest work with Boston area hospitals has helped the human side of Emergency Medicine with patient feedback systems.

Mike joined us after spending time with the engineering divisions of General Dynamics and Microsoft Corporation back to top

Melissa began working as a consultant in 1994.  Prior to working with corporate clients, Melissa’s work in leadership development began at Merrowvista Education Center, 1994 – 1995 where she worked on their ropes course as an outdoor educator and led groups on biking, canoeing and hiking trips in the White Mountains. 

As a corporate consultant, Melissa’s leadership, team development and strategic implementation programs have served a broad range of industries from health care to school systems to fortune 500 companies. The focus of her work with managers is supporting their transition from tacticians to strategic and influential leaders.

Some of her clients include Human Resource Managers Development Program at the University of Michigan, Waterford Wedgwood, BAE Systems, Saint Gobain, The Hartford, Charter One and American Airlines. back to top

Zach’s Lean Manufacturing expertise stems from working in multi-million dollar projects and extensive Lean transformations. His strength centers on getting employees to harness improvement and leading them to apply complex lean systems. 

Zach's expertise has evolved through Industrial Engineering, Six Sigma, ERP Implementations and Lean Transformations. Zach's technical skills have included million dollar savings through effective inventory reduction, simulation and capacity improvement, over 50 Lean Kaizen events and training others in making incremental and sustainable improvements.

Some of his engagements include an array of Automotive and Life Science engagements including truck and bus assembly, plastic extrusion, engine/transmission rebuilding, medical device and pharmaceutical assembly and packaging. back to top

Scott Sutton provides superior Quality Management Systems & Lean Manufacturing consulting utilizing strong skills in ISO 9001:2000/ISO 13485/QS9000/AS9100, Quality Engineering and Lean/Six Sigma Best Practices. Scott offers over eighteen years’ experience contributing to Fortune 100, 500 & small business success.

Achievement Highlights:
Lean Manufacturing/Healthcare – 25 Kaizen, 5 VSA, 5 Lean training events over the past 18 months generating $21million accumulated team cost avoidance/savings for client.

ISO Auditing & Coordination - 10 ISO certification/surveillance audits within 18 months as Lead Auditor. Coordinated - efforts to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification as ISO Representative for eight years with an accredited Registrar. Generate Certification Audits as a Lead Auditor with two leading Registrars.

Inventory Reduction - A dock-to-stock raw material system reducing cycle time, saving approximately $90,000/year in handling and inspection time using LeanMfg./Six Sigma.

New Product Development - Advanced quality planning on new products using PPAP, PFMEA, GR&R and Cpk.

Quality Management - Raw material rejects by quantifying and creative root cause analysis. Projects for calculating the cost of quality and customer returns as benchmarks for continuous improvement.

Facility Layout & Design – Plant layout using cellular flow design and AutoCAD ensuring adequate space, flow and future flexibility.

Supply Chain Management – Coordinated supplier development programs, facilitate GTI/AVCOG & CBW&L grants for SPC, team training/implementation, lean manufacturing In-depth 5S and quality cost. back to top