 An
intensive, two-day workshop with Bradford L. Goldense, President, Goldense Group, Inc. and
leading expert on performance measurement in product development and R&D
About the Instructor
Brad Goldense, president of
GGI, has been assisting engineering and Manufacturing companies for the past twenty years
in assessing, developing, and implementing competitive business changes. Mr. Goldense has
consulted to over 60 Fortune 1000 companies and has done work in well over 200
manufacturing plants. He specializes in several areas including: strategic planning,
reengineering, product development, manufacturing management, and
engineering/manufacturing design/information systems. For the past four years, Mr.
Goldense has concentrated his efforts in rapid product development to reduce cycle times
across the product development and manufacturing functions.
Mr. Goldense has performed assessments of new
product development capabilities; coached the product definition, specification, and
design review processes; assisted clients in planning and implementing concurrent product
and project methodologies; facilitated project and program planning and control; and
placed problem projects back on-line. Several clients have realized 50% reductions in
time-to-market for new product development efforts as a result of Concurrent Product
Development-CPD. GGI clients include companies that design and manufacture diagnostic
instruments, medical devices, automated test equipment, aircraft, hi-fi equipment,
machined parts, fasteners, computer hardware-software, and textiles.
Mr. Goldense was formerly with CSC/Index where
he was involved with strategic planning, business re-engineering, and technology strategy
development for Fortune 500 manufacturers in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
He worked for Price Waterhouse where he was involved in the specification and
implementation of many different types of application software including order processing,
MRP, DRP, and financial systems. Mr. Goldense worked for Lester B. Knight & Associates
where he analyzed manufacturing productivity improvement and cost reduction opportunities.
While with these firms, Mr. Goldense consulted to companies such as Sheaffer-Eaton,
Bird-Johnson, Molex, American Optical, Monsanto, Dupont, Ford, Aramco, Norton Company,
Sprague Electric, and Baxter Travenol.
Mr. Goldense worked in industry with Texas
Instruments as a project manager and lead engineer in the design and start-up of automated
electronics and process manufacturing facilities. During his tenure, he managed the design
and construction of a metals cleaning and processing plant through production start-up. He
was responsible for the design of an automated electronics manufacturing area involving
500 people doing component fabrication, assembly, and product testing for over 200
products. He had engineering responsibility for material handling systems at TI's second
largest plant site. Mr. Goldense also worked for a number of years with his family company
that specialized in overhauling aging manufacturing and plant facilities.
Mr. Goldense has a BS in Engineering from Brown
University where he concentrated in Civil and Industrial Engineering, and an MBA from
Cornell University where he concentrated in Accounting and Business Finance. He is
Certified in Production and Inventory Management [CPIM] by APICS, is a Certified
Manufacturing Engineer [CMfgE] by SME, and is a Certified Computer Professional [CCP] by
the ICCP. He is President of the national organization SOCE-Society of Concurrent
Engineering. He is President of the Boston Chapter of the Computer & Automated Systems
Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He is also a member of APICS, ASQC,
IEEE, ACM, and ICCP and is active on several sub-committees in these organizations
Brad is an invited speaker and moderator at
leading industry conferences. He is a Contributing Editor to Design News magazine and to
World-Class Design To Manufacture. Brad has published over fifty articles and technical
papers. He has been quoted or cited in Machine Design, Design News, Managing Automation,
and the Best Practices Report among others.
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