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Automotive Ignition Systems, Lead Acid, Lithium Battery, Expert ConsultantExpertise in industrial engineering in supervisory roles, automotive ignition, lead acid battery and lithium battery products. Experienced in classic industrial engineering techniques including time studies, downtime studies, productivity improvements, cost analysis, and more recent approaches such as lean manufacturing, manufacturing system design, and autocad layouts.
Experience includes work at the Delphi ignition systems and lead acid battery plants. Significant accomplishments include elimination of perennial scrap problem and associated costs in starting motor plant, increasing uptime by installing buffers between complicated processes, altering final assembly layout to increase uptime by reducing wasted flow, and improving capacity by breaking coupled processes into individual cells.
This consultant offers additional specialization and expertise in automotive parts manufacturing, methods analysis, standard data, master standard data, downtime analysis, sampling studies, delay studies, uptime improvement, productivity improvement, throughput improvement, cost savings, cost reduction, and quick model change.
Other areas of specialty include waste analysis, kaizen, lead time reduction, elimination of waste, labor efficiency, labor studies, economic analysis, cost benefit studies, estimates, cost estimating, problem analysis, scrap analysis, lean enterprise solutions, lean cells, people focused practices.
Extensive knowledge and experience regarding manufacturing cells, manufacturing optimization, systems engineering, flow analysis, material flow, labor flow, information flow, buffering, coupling, decoupling, bottleneck analysis, constraint management, manpower reduction, layouts, plant layouts, scheduling systems, cycle time, cycle time analysis, and takt time
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Automotive, Metals, Education, Software
EDUCATION
M.B.A., Ball State University, Muncie, IN
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, General Motors Institute, Flint, MI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.
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Providing expertise in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive ignition systems, lead acid and lithium batteries, manufacturing systems, lean manufacturing, quality improvement, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients with emphasis in the automotive and related industries fields.
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Senior Industrial Engineer, Delphi Corporation
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Was responsible for industrial engineering activities in Delphi’s ignition systems plant. The activities consisted of implementing lean manufacturing principles including: working with plant teams to design lean manufacturing systems, designing and implementing containerization and material handling systems, developing departmental scheduling systems, and using autocad to develop plant layouts.
Senior Industrial Engineer with Supervisory Responsibility, General Motors Corporation
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Was responsible for the activities of the industrial engineers in G.M’s five automotive battery plants in North America. While the primary focus was on the North American plants, travel and interaction was also required for the battery plants in France, Korea, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. The responsibilities included: train and assist in implementing lean manufacturing concepts, train and assist in basic industrial engineering functions.
Senior Industrial Engineer, General Motors Corporation
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Was responsible for the industrial engineering activities in two battery plants – Fitzgerald, Georgia, and Oshawa, Ontario. These activities included equipment delay studies, labor utilization studies, throughput improvement, capacity analysis, estimating impact of new products or product changes, identifying and implementing cost savings ideas.
Financial Analyst, General Motors Corporation
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Was responsible for the financial functions for G.M.s starting motor plant with annual sales of $80,000,000. The responsibilities included setting the plant’s annual budget, coordinating the annual physical inventory, developing and monitoring various plant performance measurements, forecasting cash flow expectations, inventory levels, employment requirements.
Quality Improvement Team Administrator, General Motors Corporation
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Was responsible for coordinating efforts to improve employee attitude and product quality. Headed team consisting of the manufacturing plant’s staff to change the plant’s approach toward quality. Served as instructor and trained 600 salaried and 400 hourly employees in the Crosby “Quality Education Series”. Each employee received 24 hours of training via 12 two hour sessions.
Senior Industrial Engineer, General Motors Corporation
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Had a variety of assignments including industrial engineer responsibilities for the battery plant in Anaheim, California, and in the starting motor plant in Anderson, Indiana.
Manufacturing Engineer, General Motors Corporation
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Had a variety of assignments during this time period including tool designer, plant manufacturing engineer and tool room supervisor.
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