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Dennis Verstegen, Principal
As a contractor, engineered and led the transformation from traditional batch to contemporary flow manufacturing, reducing lead-time and inventory investment by a factor of four or more for Columbia Car, Case-Racine Operations, and Kohler Plumbing Operations.
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Designed and internalized a continuous performance improvement management work process in 24 manufacturing plants operated by Rayovac and other clients that reduces annualized operating expense by six to eight percent, year after year.
Founded Tru-Cor Corporation for investors. Developed all work processes and systems to extrude plastic sheet stock and convert it into hundreds of products. The most familiar of these products is the plastic tote box used by the U. S. Postal Service.
As an employee, reduced product and market development lead-time by a factor of four or more for ABB-Accuray, Aeroquip, and Olin Corporation. Developed nine repetitive manufacturing ventures for Olin Corporation, adding 1583 wage employees. Planned the startup of a business to design and build turnkey chemical plants that booked $100 million (1973) for Olin during the first year of operation. Reduced material handling cost with a series of systems-engineering projects completed for Marathon Paper.
Managed product and market definition, development, production release, and the first six installations of new process control systems for continuous web-process industries for ABB-Accuray. Industries included calendaring, coating, metal rolling, papermaking, plastic extrusion, and textile finishing.
As a co-op student, reduced quality cost and upgraded information systems for Oldsmobile Division of General Motors.
Education:
Baccalaureate, Engineering and Industrial Management, GMI (Kettering University). 62 credit hours of graduate studies in business administration and systems engineering disciplines.
Baccalaureate, Engineering and Industrial Management, GMI (Kettering University). 62 credit hours of graduate studies in business administration and systems engineering disciplines.
Specialties:
• Continuous performance improvement management
work process and information system design
• Business and production work process and information
system design
• Industrial engineering practice
• Program and project management
Business Experience:
Four decades of study, practice, and success with improving the market+profit performance of manufacturing companies as an engineer, engineering manager, product manager, program manager, operations manager, and general manager.
Four decades of study, practice, and success with improving the market+profit performance of manufacturing companies as an engineer, engineering manager, product manager, program manager, operations manager, and general manager.
Industry Specialization:
Agricultural equipment, aircraft, automation equipment, automation systems, automotive, batteries, chemicals, electronic components, food processing, fluid system components, material handling and packaging equipment, ordnance, plastic extrusion and molding, paper making and converting.
Agricultural equipment, aircraft, automation equipment, automation systems, automotive, batteries, chemicals, electronic components, food processing, fluid system components, material handling and packaging equipment, ordnance, plastic extrusion and molding, paper making and converting.
Professional Affiliations:
• American Production and Inventory Control
Society (APICS)
• American Society for Quality (ASQ)
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
• Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE)
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
Our Associates
Subcontractor relationships have been formed with proven specialists during several years of teamwork. Each specialist has from 15 to 30 years of experience in their field. Many have developed or lease specialized software to get rapid results with a minimum project investment. Their expertise includes the following skills:
• Facility planning and layout
• Feasible finite capacity scheduling
• Information system specification, design, purchase,
installation, and training
• ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 compliance
• Manufacturing process and system design
• Organizational development/executive mentoring
• Quality engineering and management
• Static and dynamic modeling/simulation
• Supply chain logistics lead-time and cost reduction
• Work measurement and job design/ergonomics
Our external team works with your internal team to define and solve difficult problems and realize performance improvement opportunities at less cost to yield a higher return on project investment.
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