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Kenneth Crow is an internationally
recognized expert in the field of integrated product development, a
distinguished speaker, and creator of the
NPD Body of Knowledge. Ken's
experience includes work in aerospace, automotive, capital equipment,
consumer products, electronics and high technology, mechanical
machinery, and medical equipment industries. He has conducted hundreds
of
workshops and trained over 2,500 professionals and managers on
subjects related to new product development.
Previously, he served as Vice President of the Professional Services
Division of Western Data Systems, a supplier of manufacturing,
engineering and business software, consulting and education. There he
directed all customer education and consulting services and was
responsible for product planning, and executive seminars. These
services included planning, change management, education and training,
technical services, system integration, and implementation consulting.
Prior to WDS, Ken was Director of the Manufacturing Consulting
Practice with a Big Six consulting firm in Los Angeles, where he was
responsible for building a distinguished manufacturing consulting
practice. He began working in the field of new product development in
1981 addressing issues such as configuration management/engineering
change control, transition to production/product launch, and design
for manufacturability. He began to evolve some of the initial concepts
of today's integrated product development practices starting in 1982.
In these positions, he directed, managed and performed consulting work
related to integrated product development, enterprise resource
planning system implementation, design for manufacturability,
design-to-cost, product development teams, business process
reengineering, manufacturing management, and cost management. He has
conducted over 200 engineering and manufacturing seminars and provided
guidance to executive management on a variety of business issues and
plans.
Ken also assisted several high technology and start-up companies
develop business strategies, business plans and financial projections.
He has given keynote speeches, presentations and courses in North
America, Europe, Israel and Australia on various aspects of integrated
product development, design for manufacturability, design-to-cost, and
quality function deployment. He has also written numerous papers and
articles on these subjects and contributed to books on these subjects.
He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Best Practices Report and
Time Compression Technologies and previously was on the Board of
Advisors for Concurrent Engineering.
Companies Mr. Crow has assisted include: Adaptive Microsystems, Basler
Electric, Baxter Healthcare, British Aerospace, Elgar Electronics, FMC
Ground Systems, FSI International, Gehl, General Dynamics Land
Systems, General Motors, Harman International, Lockheed Martin, McData,
Nokia, OSRAM Opto-Semiconductor, Remington, Rohr Industries (now B.F.
Goodrich Aerospace), Saft America, Samsung Electronics, Snap-On
Diagnostics, Solar Turbines, Sun Microsystems, Ventracor,
Westinghouse, and Yazaki North America.
Mr. Crow received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems and
a Master of Business Administration from the University of California
at Los Angeles. He is a certified New Product Development Professional
through PDMA, Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
through the APICS, is a Certified Configuration Manager through NDIA,
and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is a founding member,
past President, and was on the Board of Directors of the Society of
Concurrent Product Development. He is a member of the the American
Society for Quality Control, the IEEE Engineering Management Society,
the Product Development Management Association, and a life member of
the Society of Concurrent Product Development.
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