- Next Generation Manufacturing Services
- Systemic Continuous Improvement
- Customer Focused Innovation
- Sustainable Products & Process Development
- Advanced Talent Management
- Global Engagement
- Extended Enterprise Management
- Customer Successes
- Advanced Talent Management
- Customer Focused Innovation
- Extended Enterprise Management
- Global Engagement
- Sustainable Products and Process Development
- Systemic Continuous Improvement
- Sadoff & Rudoy Scraps Waste
- Centerline Machine: Lean = Triple-digit growth
- Dalco Metals: Lean Office Cuts Processing Time 50%
- Design Specialties, Inc.: Lean Reduces Inventory by 80%
- GenMet Revs Up Sales with Lean
- Gusmer Enterprises: Reduces Setup Time by 70%
- Marsh Electronics Surges with EBT
- Bachhuber's Strategic Planning Reveals Profit
- Berntsen Reaches Summit with Strategic Planning
- Events & Workshops
- Resources
- Research & Reports
Rick Ray, Senior Manufacturing Specialist
"What I like best about my job is the ability, as a consultant, to help companies make significant positive changes to their businesses. As a consultant I can clearly see a business and its issues because I am not burdened with a history of how things have always been done. As a consultant I am also viewed as a business expert which means that business owners and managers are more likely to listen to and implement my ideas. Working with companies and seeing them make significant improvement to their businesses gives me tremendous job satisfaction."
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Skill Set:
- NIST Certified Lean Instructor
- Application of Lean Principles
- Culture Change
- Business Mentoring
- Sustainable Process and Product Development
- Enterprise Business Transformation
Experience:
- General Manager
- Plant Manager
- Production Control Manager
- Project Manager
- Purchasing Agent
- Planner
- Production Supervisorr
Rick has over 30 years of management experience working with Fortune 500, mid-sized and small companies in the food, electronics, plastics and chemical industries. He has held positions ranging from Production Supervisor, Planner, Purchasing Agent and Project Manager (new product development) to Division Production Control Manager, Plant Manager and General Manager.
As a Senior Manufacturing Specialist for WMEP, Rick helps companies improve their operating performance through the application of Lean principles, culture change, business coaching and sustainable process and product development.
Education:
BBA from UW-Madison in Marketing and Personnel Management