ScottLord

Scott Lord has over 28 years of extensive experience in a wide variety of products, processes, and environments. He has worked with world-class organizations helping them accelerate growth and profitability without generating new capital investments.

Throughout multiple manufacturing organizations, Scott’s leadership, knowledge transfer, and coaching has resulted in cost saving benefits in excess of $375 million, including efficiency improvements averaging 40%.

Since 2004, Scott’s passion for improving business operations has lead him as an internal consultant around the globe, utilizing Operational Excellence, Six Sigma, and Lean Transformation methodologies. His improvement initiatives have been highly focused around cost of goods sold, quality, service, and working capital, with business capabilities ranging from consumer products, aerospace & defense, and automotive. Scott has facilitated hundreds of business improvement events and transformation projects, including the training of several hundred individuals in Six Sigma and Lean. He is known for being a passionate advocate and practitioner of continuous improvement, and for his ability to bring together individuals of different talents, capabilities, and skillsets from all levels.

CONTACT

EMAIL 

MOBILE

(216) 218-4140

EDUCATION

MBA
New Hampshire College
BS in Mechanical Engineering
Northeastern University

KEY EXECUTIVE ROLES & CLIENTS

General Electric
Sprague Electric
Nashua
Champion International
Thomas & Betts
Ametek
Timken
Haydon-Kerk
Dunkermoteren
Momentive

Functional Domain Expertise

  • A3 thinking/management process

  • Overall equipment effectiveness

  • Toyota Production System

  • Process re-engineering

  • Design of experiments

  • Project/Program Management

  • Visual Factory management

  • Lean culture transformation

  • Minitab software applications

  • Quick changeovers/set-up time reduction

  • 5-S Workplace Productivity

  • Manufacturing and transaction process waste elimination

  • Mistake proofing/poka-yoke

  • Design for Six Sigma

  • Critical–to-Quality through voice of the customer

  • Global Kaizen leadership
  • Total productive maintenance
  • Measurement system analysis
  • Operational measurement
  • Process balancing
  • Variation analysis
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Value stream transformation
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Factory expansions/migration/relocation
  • Value analysis/value engineering (product cost out)
  • Inventory reduction/turnover improvement
  • Reducing lead times and non-value-add costs
  • Practical problem solving (DMAIC/PDCA/8-D)
  • Quality function deployment

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(330) 650-0580

OFFICE

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