Norman Bodek

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

User:Jeremyb suspects that this article (specifically this version) is a copyright violation, but without a source this can not be definitively determined. If this article can be shown to be a copyright infringement, please list the article on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are certain that the article is not a copyright violation, you should give evidence below. Please do not remove this tag without discussion.

This article or section needs to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help improve this article with relevant internal links. (August 2007)

The tone or style of this resume may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. Specific concerns may be found on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions.(May 2008)

Norman Bodek is the President of PCS Press and is known to many as The Godfather of Lean manufacturing. Starting in 1979, Mr. Bodek started traveling to Japan to find the answer to why they had so quickly exceeded American industry in efficiency. Over the course of 28 years he has traveled to Japan 67 times, visiting over 250 plants, and published over 100 Japanese management books in the English language. He has personally met and studied the teachings of the great masters: Dr. Deming, Dr. Juran, Phil Crosby, Dr. Ishikawa, and published the works of Dr. Akao, Mr. Ohno, Dr. Shigeo Shingo just to name a few.

Mr. Bodek has published books and training materials and also led conferences and seminars on Total Production System - Lean, Total Productive Maintenance, Kaizen Blitz, 5S (Sometimes known as 6-S), Poka-Yoke, Cell Design, Kanban, SMED, CEDAC, Visual Factory, Lean Accounting, and more.

One of the main themes Mr. Bodek preaches is employee-development and employee-empowerment. The following is an excerpt from an email Mr. Bodek sent me^[who?]:

As a fortune cookie once told me, “You have the talent to discover the talent in others.” That is it in a “nutshell.” My claim to fame is just finding the amazing tools, techniques and new thoughts that have revolutionized the world of manufacturing.
Toyota, today, is the most successful automobile manufacturer earning over 15 billion dollars in 2006. Virtually every manufacturing company in the world wants to emulate Toyota. They want to be Lean but hardly any of them can do it. Why not? What is missing?
To me my most powerful discovery was the way Toyota and other Japanese companies opened the infinite creative potential lying often dormant inside every single worker. When you unlock this hidden talent people become highly motivated and actually love to come to work. Most recently, I have been working with Gulfstream Corporation, the private jet company, where 1000 people went from 16 implemented ideas in February 2005 to close to 21,000 in 2006 and saved the company 1.1 million dollars.

Education: Yonkers, New York Public School system, University of Wisconsin, New York University (BA), New York University Graduate School of Business, and New York University College of Education.

Military service: Two years active duty with the U. S. Army Audit Agency and four years in reserve.

Instructor: American Management Associations, Control Data Institute, President Regan’s Productivity Conference – Washington, DC, PPORF Conference - Japan, Total Productive Maintenance Conference – Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Engineers, American Society for Quality, APICS, Productivity, Inc. Conferences and Seminars, Dresser Mfg., Union Carbide, AVCO Corporation, Larsen & Turbo - India, Productivity - Madras (Chennai), India, London - England, Jutland – Denmark, and most recently speaking for the Plastics Industry in Ireland.

Recipient of The Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing and also created the Shingo Prize with Dr. Vern Buehler sponsored by Utah State University

Professional Career: Public Accountant and Insurance Broker, Vice President Data Utilities, New York City, and Barbados, West Indies, President Key Universal Ltd. with offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Grenada, West Indies

1979-1999 Started Productivity Inc. & Productivity Press with offices in Norwalk, Connecticut, and Portland, Oregon.

Newsletters: PRODUCTIVITY, Total Employee Involvement (TEI), The Service Insider, Quick Change Over (QCO), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Study missions to Japan, led around 35 missions visiting 250 manufacturing plants

Conferences: Over 100 conferences on productivity and quality improvement including Productivity The American Way, Best of America, Quality, Quality Service, TPM, and TEI

Seminars: Hundreds of seminars on TPM, TQM, TEI, QCO, Visual Management, 5S, JIT and others.

In plant training events: Brought over Ohno’s assistants from Japan (Iwata and Nakao) and ran Five Days and One Night (now called Kaizen Blitz), Maintenance Miracle, Quick Changeovers, Visual Factory, 5S and benchmark plant visits and seminars with American Manufacturing companies.

Books Published: Dr. Shigeo Shingo’s - Toyota Production System, SMED, Poka-Yoke, Non-Stock Production, etc., Taiichi Ohno - Toyota Production System (JIT), Henry Ford – Today and Tomorrow, A New American TQM, Yoji Akao – Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Hoshin Kanri, Dr. Ryuji Fukuda – Managerial Engineering, CEDAC and Building Organizational Fitness, Shigeichi Moriguchi – Software Excellence, Shigeru Mizuno - Management for Quality Improvement (The 7 New QC Tools), Seiichi Nakajima – Total Productivity Maintenance (TPM), Michel Greif – The Visual Factory, Ken’ichi Sekine – One Piece Flow, Shigehiro Nakamura – The New Standardization, and many other books on world class manufacturing and total quality management.

1990 - Industry Week called him “Mr. Productivity.”

1999 - Started PCS Press with a monthly newsletter, consulting, and workshops on Quick and Easy Kaizen and Improving Customer Service.

2001 – Called “Mr. Lean” in Quality Progress Magazine

2006 – Received the Six Sigma Global Grand metal from ICBUPR

[edit] Books written:

The Idea Generator – Quick and Easy Kaizen Co-authored with Bunji Tozawa PCS Press 2001

The Idea Generator – Workbook PCS Press 2002

Kaikaku: The Power and Magic of Lean PCS Press 2004

All You Gotta Do Is Ask Co-authored with Chuck Yorke PCS Press 2005

Rebirth of American Industry Co-authored with Bill Waddell PCS Press 2005

[edit] Books edited:

JIT Is Flow
Hiroyuki Hirano and Makato Furuya
PCS Press 2006
Norman Bodek is currently editing a book by the late Dr. Shigeo Shingo temporary titled Don’t Let Go with Ideas.

[edit] Articles published in:

Quality Digest Magazine Solutions – IIE Magazine Target – Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Quality World The Journal for Quality and Participation T + D Magazine - ASTD Manufacturing Engineering – SME’s magazine Timely Tips for Teams – monthly NWLean HR.COM Superfactory.com And others, over 100 articles published in the last four years.

Radio – ran a management interview program in New England.

E-learning – course developed with Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and C2 Management in Stockholm, Sweden, and starting in the summer of 2007 Mr. Bodek will be running a Lean Research Study Group at Drexel University.

This article does not cite any references or sources. (August 2007) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

This article lacks information on the notability of the subject matter. Please help improve this article by providing context for a general audience, especially in the lead section. (August 2007)