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   Kenneth Crow
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   Kenneth A. Crow is President of DRM Associates, a management consulting and education firm focusing on integrated product development practices.He is a distinguished speaker and recognized expert in the field of integrated product development.He has over twenty years of experience consulting with major companies internationally in aerospace, capital equipment, defense, high technology, medical equipment, and transportation industries.He has provided guidance to executive management in formulating a integrated product development program and reengineering the development process as well as assisted product development teams applying IPD to specific development projects.
   
   Mr. Crow has written papers, contributed to books, and given many presentations and seminars for professional associations, conferences, and manufacturing clients on integrated product development, design for manufacturability, design to cost, product development teams, QFD, and team building.Among many professional affiliations, he is past President and currently on the Board of the Society of Concurrent Engineering and is a member of the Product Development Management Association and the Engineering Management Society.
   
   Establishing a Design-to-Cost Process
   
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   KENNETH A. CROW
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   Kenneth A. Crow manages a small consulting and education firm for the manufacturing, high technology, aerospace and defense industry.His firm focuses on improving product development through the implementation of integrated product development, process re-engineering, time-to-market, and total quality management practices.He is a distinguished speaker and recognized expert in the field of concurrent engineering, Previously, he served as Vice President of the Professional Services Division for a manufacturing software supplier and as a Director of the Manufacturing Consulting Practice in a Big Six firm.
   
   In these roles, he has directed major operational improvement programs, implemented systems, and provided concurrent engineering/integrated product development consulting and education for numerous manufacturers including Alcatel, FMC, GEC, General Electric, GM Hughes, IAI, Kodak, Lockheed, Loral, MSA, Naval Avionics Center, NEC Corporation, Northrop, Rohr, Sandia National Laboratories, Solar Turbines, Sundstrand, Textron, Thiokol, and United Technologies.
   
   He has twenty years of industrial experience in concurrent engineering, design for manufacturability, computer integrated manufacturing, cost management, manufacturing management, quality function deployment, team-based organization, and total quality management, He has written articles and papers, contributed to books, conducted workshops, and given presentations on these subjects in Australia, North America, Europe and the Middle East.He is on the Editorial Advisory Board for DFM Alert.
   
   He is a member of the American Society for Quality Control, the American Production and Inventory Control Society, the Society of Computer-Aided Engineering, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and a founding member and on the Board of Directors of the Society of Concurrent Engineering.He is a Certified Configuration Manager through ADPA and is Certified in Production and Inventory Management through APICS.He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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   Consultant Profile - Kenneth Crow
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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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