Nigel has 40 years broad business experience and provides coaching and education on Business Productivity Improvement and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering to all types of business sectors and industries worldwide and helps clients develop a strategy and a vision to attack waste, capture productivity improvements, increase profits, and become more competitive in the global market..

Nigel is a product of the British Graduate Engineering Apprenticeship Award program with British degrees in both Engineering and Management Science..

After a career as an Engineering manager and change agent at Motorola in the 1980s he co-authored one of the first LEAN textbooks CYCLE TIME MANAGEMENT the fast track to time based productivity improvement..

He has been an architect of change for several major manufacturing companies on organizational change and improvement. LEAN, Six Sigma, ERP, DFM, NPI, Technology Transfer, Plant re-organization and relocation.

He has served many clients in Canada, USA, Asia and Europe.

He continues to coach business leaders and develop and deliver Education workshops to clients.

He also continues to write and deliver articles on LEAN thinking.

He is currently consulting and Educating worldwide on Business Improvement Initiatives, Joint Ventures, New Product Introduction Systems and Global Technology Transfer projects; with a particular emphasis in China and Russia and of course CANADA..

He has been a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for many decades and assists on LEAN thinking and implementation and related Business Improvement topics and is SME Chair in 2012 and a member of the SME Executive committee and is a leading advocate for the Take Back Manufacturing Forum.

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  SVP, Operations in Bluicity

  Integrated food traceability, integrity, and waste reduction.