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 two 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.
- 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
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Luis Contreras
- Seventeen 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
- lcontreras@lean-strategies.com
Jeff S. MacMillan
- 14+ 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
- jmacmillan@lean-strategies.com
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
- tmast@lean-strategies.com
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