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Mark Graban| Everyday Lean
Mark Graban, an industrial engineer and lean consultant, just can't help it -- he sees lean everywhere. "There are many examples of lean principles all around us," says Graban. "Or, more often, we see examples of muda (waste) that could be fixed with a little lean thinking. In this blog, we'll take lean out of the factory floor to learn lessons and tips that we can bring back into our own workplace." |
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David Brandt | Inside IIE
Web managing editor David Brandt and other members of the IIE staff will take you behind the scenes for an insider's view of life at IIE. "This is your organization, and the headquarters staff is always looking for opportunities to make it serve you better. Get to know us and what we do – and let us know your ideas on how to add value to your membership.” |
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Tamara Wilhite| An IE in IT
Tamara Wilhite's emphasis is on industrial engineering and process improvement in the IT and software fields. A Six Sigma green belt, she is the author of several articles and books available on amazon.com, including Six Sigma Projects - Incremental Versus Seismic, Humanity's Edge and Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell. "I'll talk about industrial engineering principals and process improvement ideas and applications applications in that brave new frontier – the electronic one."
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Pierce Story| Healing Health Care
Pierce Story is the consulting manager for the Hospital of the Future group, a division of GE Healthcare. He is a diplomate and past president in the Society for Heath Systems.
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Don Greene | Greene Piece
Don Greene is the executive director of IIE. He has a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech as well as an MBA from Georgia State University. He has passed the PE Exam and is also a Certified Association Executive. In his career, Don has been a manufacturing engineer and has many years of experience with several different nonprofit associations. |
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Eileen Berman | Personnel Perspectives
Eileen L. Berman, Ed.D., is a consulting psychologist and the author of two books, Dealing Effectively with Job Loss and Building Productivity. She is a former columnist for Industrial Management magazine on productivity issues related to the relational aspects of job performance, addressing issues in the workplace seen through the lens of people skills and how to improve upon them. |
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Bennett Foster | Process Industries
Bennett Foster is current president of the Process Industries Division in IIE, and a senior consultant in lean Six Sigma for DuPont. He has been employed by DuPont for more than 30 years – doing IE and OR work. He’s also taught discrete event simulation as adjunct professor at Vanderbilt, in the AICHE continuing education program, and in webinars for both DuPont and IIE. Bennett sees Lean as a natural part of the IE toolkit – and as the first choice analysis tool, before deploying more quantitative tools such as simulation and optimization. |