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Design and Control of Quality!
Ian Bradbury, Peaker Services
At this breakfast, Ian Bradbury will explore how people and their organizations can work in a high level learning and improvement cycle. Many people use the terms "PDCA cycle" and "Deming cycle" interchangeably, but PDSA can be seen as being applied here at different levels of learning about and action on:
Dr. W. Edwards Deming talked often about "joy in work" - knowing what our job is - which depends on each of us and upon whom we depend, as a purposeful view to take pride in our work. This is in stark contrast to the view of responsibility which comes through traditional organization charts. It also illustrates an interdependency between appreciation of variation and the importance of understanding it over time, added with the systematic application of the PDSA cycle to develop new knowledge and act to improve in parallel.
Biography:
Ian Bradbury is currently President & CEO of Peaker Services Incorporated, an employee owned company providing unique prime mover and control system solutions through remanufacture, field service, distribution and system integration to industrial customers. Ian acted as trustee for a leveraged transaction establishing the ESOP in 1999.
He was previously Senior Statistician for Product Engineering in General Motors Powertrain Group, where he jointly led the Powertrain Statistical Network. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan and visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Texas, Dallas. Ian accompanied Dr. W. Edwards Deming on many consulting visits to General Motors and has attended, co-facilitated or facilitated numerous Deming 4-day seminars. He is an active member of the W. Edwards Deming Institute and serves currently on its Advisory Board. He has served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Indiana Quality and Productivity Improvement Council and on the Advisory Boards for Kettering University’s Department of Mathematical Sciences and Michigan Technological University’s Applied Mathematics Department.
Ian has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, an MBA from The University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.