- Company List
- Web, Internet and On-line Products and Services
- Software and Decision Systems Development
- Work Flow and Business Process Analysis
- Business and Industrial Marketing
- Organizational Design and Development
- Costing, Financial Analysis and Project Selection
- Supply Chains, Logistics and Distribution
- Plant Design, Automation and Equipment Choice
- Production Planning and Scheduling
(Research and Consulting Projects, Advisory and Director Boards)
|Aditya Birla Group
American Cimflex Corp.
Cambridge City Hospital
Deere & Co.
Eastman Kodak Co. (KAD, LRPD)
Ford Motor Company
Hindustan Lever Ltd.
ICI Americas (Zeneca)
IBM Corporation (MIAD, Corporate)
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing
Los Angeles MTA
Los Angeles CRA
|Milton Roy Company
Nippon Becton Dickinson
R. E. Dietz and Company
Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.
Rochester Telephone Company
RT-Set (now vi[z]rt)
Systems and Software
Thomson Electronic Publishing
Thomson Professional Publishing (IT)
Xerox Computer Services
Xerox NAMD; Reprographic Services
A Global Conglomerate: Strategy for entry into new industries. Evaluation of new venture investments in software, web-based and internet projects. Development of a business strategy for venture activity.
Software Company in Learning Management: Advisory board. Product development and positioning, product launch strategy, prototype software development in India.
Call Center and eCRM Solutions Provider: Board of Directors (till 2000), strategic planning.
E-learning Software Company (now aquired): Advisory Board (till 2001).
Hardware and Software Supplier of Virtual Environments for TV Broadcasts: Strategic planning, business plan development and product introduction strategy for a new digital graphics based product for corporate communications.
Supplier of Off-shore IT-enabled Services: Developing off-shore sources for development of software products, web site design and maintenance and content creation, for US companies.
Manufacturing Software Company: Design and development of advanced scheduling algorithms for factory scheduling. Development of methods for interfacing MRP and scheduling packages.
Computing Desktop Software Company: Architecture and design of a desktop spreadsheet based modeling package for teaching and education.
Data Mining Software Company: Software development (algorithms, user interfaces), company and product strategy, strategic alliance with an Indian software company.
Shop Floor Data Collection Software Company: Development of factory scheduling systems.
Gas and Electric Utility for a Metro Area: Call management, vehicle routing and assignment of tasks for field service personnel (Turn-on/Shut-off crews).
Enterprise Software Developer: Development of systems architecture, algorithms and package design for an MRP system.
On-site Fleet Services Provider: Development of a PC based van and crew scheduling system implemented at 40 sites.
Office Equipment Company: Design of a system for delivery performance monitoring and evaluation; setting of buffer inventory levels.
Software Products and Services Company: Product positioning and product definition for Demand Chain and Supply Chain management software products.
Legal Publishing Company: Operations analysis of editorial and composition operations for legal publishing.
Accounting and Legal Publishing Company: Development of a quality management system for electronic and print publishing, organizational design and conformance quality management; Analysis of the electronic publication process, including process mapping, analysis and diagnosis.
Global Professional Publishing House: Operations and process analysis of several groups and divisions including Code Operations.
Publisher of On-line Technical and Legal Databases: Capacity planning and staffing to meet response time targets, work flow analysis and design.
National Business Services Provider: Evaluation of work flow management and scheduling systems for a non-manufacturing (document processing) environment.
Manufacturing Software Developer: Marketing strategy for state-of-the-art scheduling and factory management systems.
Automotive Engine Manufacturer: Segmentation and strategy in markets for truck engines.
Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer: Development of a strategy for marketing new production technologies; Analysis of spare parts pricing.
Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer: Total reorganization of national sales force.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Organizational analysis and design. Development of new organizational structure for the Regional Transportation Planning Division.
Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency: Organizational assessment and design. New matrix organizational structure combining functional-expertise departments and project-process aligned teams. Development of team chartering process.
On-line (Electronic) Publisher: Planning and organizational design of work groups for production of on-line legal data-base services.
Legal Publisher: Analysis of operations and organization. Development of a new organizational structure based on work teams.
Marketing Division of an Office Equipment Provider: Development of a management development program in systems and new technologies for senior marketing managers.
Latin American Technology Consulting Firm: Cash flow analysis, computer modeling, economic and socio-economic impact analysis for a steel plant in Peru.
City Hospital: Development of a functional budget preparatory to creating a program budget; development of cost allocation methods.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Project portfolio selection, scenario analysis, funding options analysis for a multi-billion dollar project.
Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency: Development of functional specifications for a project chartering system.
Corporate IT Group for a Global Technical Publisher: Development of a field based method for information system design and evaluation.
Office Equipment Manufacturer: Research projects on justification of new technology; design of automated manufacturing systems; costing in automated factories.
Global Medical Equipment Manufacturer: Capacity strategy for lead time reduction and surge handling in high volume plastic parts production; integration of production and distribution strategy.
Large Indian Conglomerate: Strategy development workshop for process industries (Cement, Aluminum, Carbon Black, Fertilizer); Strategy development seminars for all senior managers across all group sectors.
Household Products Manufacturer: Analysis of the national production and distribution network for liquid soap and cleaner products.
Laboratory Equipment Manufacturer: Interface between sales/marketing, inventory management and production planning in small batch chemical process industry.
Consumer Products Manufacturer: Distribution center and warehouse location strategies, stocking and transportation policy, for nation wide distribution system.
Computer Manufacturer: Analysis of multi-plant production planning system. Integration of MRP with pull techniques; analysis of release policy interactions between plants; buffer placement and planning under uncertainty.
Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturer: Analysis of manufacturing and distribution (logistics) systems. Development of operational strategies to improve working capital requirements, asset management and return on assets.
Medical Equipment Manufacturer: Japanese division - Inventory management, forecasting and planning, international sourcing issues.
Global Distributor of Industrial Equipment: Design of distribution systems, inventory management and transportation policies for US wide parts distribution system.
Office Equipment Manufacturer: Determination of delivery policy for a JIT parts delivery system.
Factory Automation and CIM Consultant: Development of CIM product strategy and architecture; application software architecture for a work cell controller; design and evaluation of CIM systems for automotive plants.
Car Manufacturer: Development of a CIM analysis for material control in a metal and plastic parts manufacturing plant; design for a quality management system in a radio assembly plant; design of CIM systems for an automated instrument cluster assembly facility.
Automotive Parts Manufacturer: Warehouse design, equipment choice and operating policies for an automotive parts supply facility.
Manufacturer of Packaging Equipment: Economic evaluation and capacity choice for a parts machining cell.
Office and Consumer Equipment Manufacturer: Research projects on batching to control lead times and design of cells; development of hybrid Kanban/MRP control scheme.
Car Manufacturer: Test of a prototype scheduling system (CLASS) at a fully automated "lights-out" manufacturing plant. Evaluation of results done by the Advanced Engineering Systems Group showed that CLASS significantly outperformed all other competitors.
Machine Tool Manufacturer: Evaluation of scheduling methods for job shops and cells.
Software and Systems Supplier and a National Metals Industry Consortium: Evaluation and assessment of scheduling systems for a process environment; evaluation of planning and control architecture.
Steel Company: Assessment of MRP II suitability for steel process environment.
Laboratory Electronic Equipment Manufacturer: Development of a hybrid MRP/Kanban system for a PCB operation.
Automotive and Building Products Manufacturer: Design of a dynamic Kanban system for plant control. The system has worked successfully for 15 years.
Automotive Parts Manufacturer: Evaluation of scheduling systems and integration with MRP.
Manufacturer of Heat Sinks for Electronic Equipment: Implementation of pull control; review of manufacturing plans, layouts.
Manufacturer of Industrial Sensors: Planning, order tracking and material flow in a make-to-order shop. Productivity and lead time analysis.