Production comes to Fiberforge in a lean way
Jan 09 2008
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO – Fiberforge announced today the appointment of Tina Ogburn, formerly Tina Smith, as Operations Manager. Ogburn comes to Fiberforge from global electronics firm Celestica, where she was the Production Manager responsible for a facility with $313 million in sales. Ogburn successfully led the implementation of a plant-wide transformation to a Lean Production System including improvements in floor space, work in process, cycle time, lead-time, performance measures, direct labor efficiency and quality. Previously Ogburn led lean transformation at19 facilities, each with its own unique cultural challenges, to deploy Lean practices worldwide.
Fiberforge President & Chief Executive Officer, Jon Fox-Rubin, Ph.D. says “Fiberforge is fortunate to have an operations specialist like Tina Ogburn join our team. Tina’s work will ensure that our facility fully incorporates, and benefits from, Lean Manufacturing principles.”
Ogburn plans to put her 13 years of experience to work helping Fiberforge to establish volume manufacturing. Her focus is to embed the principles of Lean Manufacturing into the people and processes of the Fiberforge manufacturing facility. Ogburn has created a step-by-step Operations Management Guide for a complete Lean Manufacturing system that includes socio-technical relationships that form a link between human factors and production processes.
Fiberforge’s CTO, David Cramer, says, “Tina Ogburn is a welcome addition to our team. Her extensive experience in delivering customer value with Lean Manufacturing is the right foundation upon which to build volume production.”
Ogburn earned her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Engineering, Mechanical Option, from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Fiberforge is a leader in thermoplastic advanced composite processing technology. Its flagship product, the breakthrough RELay™ Manufacturing Station, enables the affordable production of lightweight advanced-composite structures in high volumes. Fiberforge’s RELay Station produces parts with high fiber alignment, high fiber fraction, and long fiber length at high speed with low scrap. Fiberforge offers in-house production, application development, and technology licensing. Fiberforge’s technology is protected by US patents #6,607,626, 6,939,423 and 7,235,149. Visit www.fiberforge.com for more information.