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Lean flow automation driver joins Pelion
Driver of highly successful lean manufacturing initiative at American Standard, Gleditsch brings 25 years of manufacturing systems development experience to Pelion Systems.
Driver of highly successful lean manufacturing initiative at American Standard, Gleditsch brings 25 years of manufacturing systems development experience Pelion Systems, a leading provider of lean flow automation software that enables demand-driven enterprises, announced today that one of the industry's foremost experts in lean manufacturing methodologies, David Gleditsch, has joined the company as chief technology officer (CTO) Gleditsch, who directed the highly successful lean flow transformation at American Standard Companies, will oversee the continued architectural development of Pelion Systems' Collaborative Flow Manufacturing? (CFM) product line
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jun 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Pelion, with customers that include Nissan Forklift, Detector Electronics (a division of Kidde plc), and Brooks Automation, offers a modular suite of software and services designed exclusively to help customers improve financial performance by transforming to demand-driven enterprises.
"David will manage the technical development of our software products and work directly with our customers to help them improve the efficiencies of their manufacturing operations," said Tom Plunkett, President and CEO of Pelion Systems.
"We're thrilled to have someone of David's caliber join our management team as we continue to mature both our products and business operations." Having spent more than 25 years developing manufacturing systems for companies that include Trane, Johnson and Johnson, Westinghouse Air Brake, Carrier and Hewlett-Packard, Gleditsch spent seven years with American Standard, where he served as corporate vice president of manufacturing technology.
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As the global leader of the Demand Flow Technology transformation, Gleditsch and his team helped triple inventory turnover rates while doubling sales that resulted in a net working capital savings of $800 million.
In total, Gleditsch oversaw lean flow implementations at more than 85 plants and certified 25 plants for attaining world-class flow capability.
Gleditsch also has experience with the rollout and integration of Six Sigma processes.
"Pelion has developed a world-class software suite that is proven to help manufacturers realize the complete power and ROI that comes with a comprehensive, technically advanced lean flow manufacturing process," says Gleditsch.
"To succeed at lean flow you need highly specialized software that automates the process.
Pelion has the only commercial product suite I've found that meets those strict requirements - it's the fundamental reason I decided to join the company." Founded in 1996, Pelion Systems, provides software and services designed exclusively to help customers improve financial performance by transforming to demand-driven enterprises.
The company's product line, Collaborative Flow Manufacturing (CFM), is a progressive suite of software that helps automate the entire lean flow lifecycle.
Pelion's manufacturing customers include Nissan Forklift, Detector Electronics (a division of Kidde plc), and Brooks Automation.
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