Richard V. Lebovitz is CEO of FactoryDNA
and a manufacturing expert working in the areas of manufacturing
design strategy and the practical implementation of Lean
Production techniques. He has led lean conversion projects
in the United States, Argentina, Africa, Japan, Canada,
Mexico, Chile, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, Netherlands, France and
Germany that involved converting traditional enterprises
to Lean manufacturing.
Mr. Lebovitz was the founder, CEO and Chairman
of Austin based Factory Logic, Inc. (acquired by SAP), which he started
in 1997. He built Factory Logic into a leading provider
of software that models the Toyota Production System,
and won the
Shingo Prize for Manufacturing excellence
in 2001. Currently, Mr. Lebovitz is also a Board Member
for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence
(AME), and is an
Entrepreneur-In-Residence
and Instructor for The University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Lebovitz
has also been a partner with Streamline Strategy Japan (SSJ) for
12 years. SSJ, based on Tokyo Japan, specializes in total conversion from
a traditional manufacturing approach to Lean/flow manufacturing.
Mr. Lebovitz has worked extensively in the auto industry
as well as personal products, food, pharmaceuticals, aerospace/defense, textiles, consumer goods
and heavy machinery. Before joining MTJ, Mr. Lebovitz was
the Director of Business Development for Teknekron Advanced
Automation Systems. This was a start-up company funded by
Teknekron Corporation located in Menlo Park, CA and Incline
Village, Nevada. Mr. Lebovitz holds a Bachelor of Science
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at
Austin.
Henry Perez is CTO with FactoryDNA and
an expert in building distributed multi-tier applications
for lean manufacturing. Prior to his position with FactoryDNA,
Mr. Perez was the co-founder and CTO of Factory Logic, Inc. (acquired by SAP)
based in Austin, Texas. As a Founder and technical visionary,
he was responsible for building the first web-enabled application
that is based on the Toyota Production System.
As the system architect, Mr. Perez drove
the design and implementation of key Java J2EE based manufacturing
components to implement Discrete Flow Scheduling and a shop
floor execution system that was tightly integrated with
a set of design tools such as Assembly Line Balancing, Cell
Balancing and Kanban Design. His work included a family
of web services used for integration with MRP, Supply Chain,
Planning Systems, MES/SCADA and other enterprise applications.
Prior to Factory Logic, Mr. Perez founded
ConnectTel where he held the position of vice president.
During this period Mr. Perez was involved in business
development, employee recruitment, project management
as well as application design and development. While at
ConnectTel, Mr. Perez was heavily involved in the implementation
of enterprise computer telephony applications.
Mr. Perez holds a Masters in Telecommunications
from Southern Methodist University School of Applied Engineering
and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
University of Texas at Austin. He is married and lives in
Austin, Texas.
