Joe Sabo - MBB and Lean Consultant

Taylor Consulting Enterprises, LLC taylorconsulting@gmail.com

How do we know Joe?

Joe Sabo is a Master Black Belt and industry veteran of 40+ years. We grew to know Joe very well as he took on the role of technical and deployment leader for eVSM at CAT during his last 5 years before his retirement in late 2015. He drove technical functionality in eVSM, established long-term strategy, and worked with us to create outstanding deployment materials. He was consistently hands-on with the product and always provided thoughtful suggestions for improvements. Our relationship started when he represented our largest customer..

Over time, it has evolved to one where his character, experience, hard work, and integrity really make him a mentor for our entire group. Unsurprisingly for us all, since his "retirement", Joe is working as hard as ever in lean consulting roles across the globe. He continues to guide us as we enhance our product to serve the lean community. Joe was the first to review and provide detailed feedback on the manufacturing mapping "skill" in our new eLearning certification module, eLeanor, and has helped enhance the training materials throughout their development. We are proud of his friendship and value his guidance of our group.

Services Joe Offers

• Lean thinking and deployment in assembly and manufacturing areas as well as OEM dealer stores
• Value stream mapping facilitation, training and leverage in a deployment
• eVSM training and application
• Support of lean projects by mentoring new project leader

Joe's Background

• BSME from Cleveland State University
• 43 years management experience at Caterpillar Inc in product design, product assembly, operations planning and lean
• 6 Sigma Black Black managing projects that eliminated variation in processes resulting in over $8M in savings
• 6 Sigma Master Black Belt managing a team of Black Belts deploying the Caterpillar Production System resulting in bottom line savings of over $25M over a 5 year period
• Developed, deployed and trained the value stream mapping standard (methodology and software) at Caterpillar worldwide
• Advisor to the eVSM group supporting expansion of the software to a full lean tool kit
• Deployment of CPS at Caterpillar dealers in Australia and New Zealand