eVSM Services Partners

How do we know Nancy?

We started working with Nancy while she was a Continuous Improvement Leader at Viant Medical. She has became an expert eVSM user and advised us on improvements to the software to facilitate its usage for line balancing amongst other topics. She is pragmatic about the usage of eVSM and other tools and methods (some cultural and not all electronic) to enable process improvement. She has a great grasp on the different moving parts of CI and how they work together having been involved in the field on multiple improvement projects over many years.

Nancy's Background & Services

I have over 35 years of experience as a Continuous Improvement Leader and Lean Facilitator in Medical Device Manufacturing. As a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Certified Lean Professional, I specialize in supporting new product development and waste reduction efforts on existing products.

One of my areas of expertise is facilitating Kaizen workshops with cross-functional teams to identify significant, quantifiable savings through process improvement, product flow analysis, SMED, line balance, and other Lean techniques. By working closely with onsite teams, we can capture collective knowledge, digitize it, and leverage it to make critical improvements that drive cost reduction efforts.

I strongly believe that small changes made in strategic areas can lead to substantial dollar savings once organizations learn to see their processes. 

Whether organizations need remote or onsite support, I'm available to help them on their Lean Journey. I can provide expertise in new product development, waste reduction, and process improvement to help organizations achieve their goals.

How do we know Scott?

We worked with Scott while he was Associate Director of Lean and Six Sigma Continuous improvement at Kraft Foods. Over the ensuing 10 years, Scott has become one of our ‘power’ users, extending eVSM usage into all areas of value stream improvement at both supply network and facility levels. He has provided guidance for us as we enhance the software based on his practical work with multiple clients (see below). 

Scott's Background & Services

Scott has 45 years’ experience providing organizational performance improvement with thought leadership, and hands-on execution, in both commercial and defense industries. His areas of expertise include, business process re-engineering, change management, and continuous process improvement, using Systems Thinking, Value Stream Management, and Lean and Six Sigma techniques. Scott has successfully blended technical expertise with operational experience particularly in the manufacturing, distribution, business-transaction and back-office and information systems environments.  Scott is a lifelong learner and studying in the MIT MicroMasters Program for Supply Chain Management including IoT, Machine Learning and Data Sciences.

Scott has focused on almost every area of the supply chain from the product concept and development end of the cycle through product portfolio management, strategic sourcing, advanced manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, warehousing and distribution, field support and finally, product end-of-life process management. He has worked in the heavy-capital good, job-shop scheduling (GE and clients); automotive industry, product development through vehicle launch (clients: Ford, GM, other); food/consumer packaged goods (Kraft Foods; clients - Keurig, Impossible Foods, Johnsonville); brewing (Heineken), financial services (GMAC, several Wall Street firms); chemical processes (ICI, DuPont); and Electronics (DEC and IBM). 

How do we know Peter?

Peter contacted us when he started his consulting group, Rawstuff, over a decade ago.  He has become a distributor of the software, sets up training courses for eVSM in Europe and has guided much of the development over the years.  He is pragmatic and has experience in different types of improvement initiatives and methodologies.  Peter is never afraid to try new things or mix methodologies in solving a client’s problem.  He has become a great friend and does a lot of work in QRM (Quick Response Manufacturing) as a director of QRM Europe.

Peter's Background & Services

Peter has over 20 years of national and international experience in production management, project management and product development for medium and large companies, supplemented with 10 years of experience as management consultant in quality management, Lean, Demand Flow Technology and latest QRM. Trained in the QRM concept of Rajan Suri at the QRM Center in Madison, WI and QRM Certified.  Peter is part of the European QRM Institute, which consists of QRM experts from all over Europe.  The purpose of the Institute is to develop and promote Quick Response Manufacturing, to establish knowledge sharing between national borders and to carry out pan-European projects.

How do we know Peter?

We first became aware of Peter King's work when we were working with Sara Lee to apply VSM to production within a food processing facility. Our initial approach of employing typical discrete manufacturing concepts was very hard to apply and the maps were hard for people to relate to. That is when we discovered Peter King and his first book, "Lean for the Process Industries". After a few months of learning from this publication, we created a specific version of VSM for processing industries.  That proved very successful and it has now been adopted by many of our clients in the process industry space which include food, chemicals, and pharma.

Peter is a lean trainer and consultant with decades of experience in the industry.  He recently co-authored a second book, "Value Stream Mapping in Process Industries" . We were fortunate to meet with Peter in 2016 and together, we mapped out the case studies (plant and supply network) in the book using eVSM. His leadership, enthusiasm, and lean experience on both technical and cultural aspects is apparent in any conversation with him, and we are proud to have him as a partner.

Peter's Background & Services

Peter L. King is the president of Lean Dynamics, LLC, a manufacturing improvement consulting firm located in Newark, DE. Prior to founding Lean Dynamics, Pete spent 42 years with the DuPont Company, in a variety of control systems, manufacturing systems engineering, Continuous Flow Manufacturing, and Lean Manufacturing assignments. That included 18 years applying Lean Manufacturing techniques to a wide variety of products, including sheet goods like DuPont™ Tyvek ®, Sontara®, and Mylar®; fibers such as nylon, Dacron®, Lycra®, and Kevlar®; automotive paints; performance lubricants; bulk chemicals; adhesives; electronic circuit board substrates; and biological materials used in human surgery. On behalf of DuPont, Pete has consulted with key customers in the processed food and carpet industries. Pete retired from DuPont in 2007, leaving a position as Principal Consultant in the Lean Center of Competency. Recent clients have included producers of sheet goods, lubricants and fuel additives, vitamins and nutritional supplements, and polyethylene and polypropylene pellets. Pete received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, graduating with honors. He is Six Sigma Green Belt certified (DuPont, 2001), Lean Manufacturing certified (University of Michigan, 2002), and is a Certified Supply Chain Professional (APICS, 2010).