The Lean Advisory Board helps guide Factory Logic’s on-going development of software solutions designed to help companies improve operational and business performance through broader application of lean production concepts and techniques.
Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker
Dr. Liker is Director of the Lean Program Office and the Japan Technology Management Program at the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan since 1982. Dr. Liker has authored or co-authored over 60 articles and book chapters and four books and has won four Shingo prizes for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, including for his book "Becoming Lean: Experiences of US Manufacturers". Dr. Liker is a widely recognized lean thinking leader and is a frequent keynote speaker at industrial conferences and consultant on lean manufacturing and supply chain management. He is also Department Editor for Manufacturing Systems for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and serves as Chair for the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, and Chair of the Technology Management Section of INFORMS. Dr. Liker has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Edward G. Anderson, Jr.
Dr. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and history from Stanford University. His research interests include supply chain management (especially service supply chains), outsourced product development, knowledge management, and system dynamics. He has published articles in such journals as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and The Systems Thinker. Dr. Anderson won the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Award from the Production and Operations Management Society. He sits on the editorial review board of Production and Operations Management and has received research grants from SAP and Hewlett-Packard. Professor Anderson has consulted with Ford, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Frito-Lay, and Atlantic-Richfield. Prior to his academic work, he was a product design engineer at the Ford Motor Company, from which he was granted three U.S. patents.
Douglas F. Carlberg
Chairman and CEO of M2 Global Manufacturing and M2 Global Solutions, Douglas Carlberg has served as executive director of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence; vice president of operations and manufacturing, Harris Corporation (Microwave Division); vice president of manufacturing, TRACOR; director of advanced manufacturing, Hughes; and line manager of several General Electric manufacturing operations. A member of the Shingo Prize Board of Governors, he is a past recipient of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing, the Organizational Excellence Award by the Association for Quality and Participation, and numerous other awards. Mr. Carlberg has over 27 years of experience in operations management in the electronics, telecommunications, and defense industries, including more than ten years of executive leadership and profit/loss responsibility for leading high-technology commercial and defense firms. His areas of expertise include directing all aspects of product development, production, supply-chain management, sales, and service. He is chairman of the board of M2 Global, Incorporated, a general partnership that owns and operates M2 Global Technology, Ltd. The company provides high-performance microwave components, valued-added microwave machine shop services, and other related products and services.
Peter Stangl
Over the past eight years, Peter Stangl has held key 'hands on' manufacturing and supply chain positions with Applied Materials ranging from Lean Manufacturing Program Manager and manager of the company's Lean Engineering Center to his current role as Director of Supply Chain Management, OEM Products. Trained on TPS by Toyota in Japan, he has program managed over 34 kaizen projects and utilized value stream mapping and other lean tools to improve cycle time, delivery, and quality of manufacturing lines, material delivery systems, and office business processes. He has led the transformation of product lines from bay build to flow lines, including implementation of material kanban systems, standardized work, and line design to takt. In addition, he developed Applied Material's corporate lean manufacturing training material and taught both company and supplier personnel. Prior to Applied Materials, Mr. Stangl held manufacturing, design, and project engineer positions with General Motors, Magna International, and Dofasco after earning his Masters of Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Timothy A. Costello
Tim Costello has over 20 years experience in operations, technology, and strategic planning processes in the consumer-oriented and high-tech industries. He is a lifetime member of the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Academy, and a current member of the Shingo Prize Board of Governors. Mr. Costello is currently the Chief Executive Officer for Builder Homesite, Inc., an Austin-based company providing technology and marketing solutions for the new home construction industry. Prior to joining Builder Homesite, Costello spent seven years with Applied Materials Inc., the world's leading supplier of semiconductor capital equipment, where he was most recently Vice President of Global Operations. Before Applied Materials, Costello spent over 15 years with General Motors Corporation with management positions in product and strategic planning, manufacturing, product and process engineering and quality. Mr. Costello graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. In addition to serving as chairman of the Advisory Board, he is also a member of the Factory Logic Board of Directors.
