Ric Schildwachter, Partner

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General Expertise

Ric Schildwachter is an expert in product development and is an operations management professional with extensive experience in Integrated Product Development, Virtual Teams, Business Process Redesign, Lean Manufacturing (Plant Layout, Cellular Design, Pull, Takt, Kanban, etc.), and Entrepreneurship.

Individual Areas of Expertise

• Strategy – Customer isolation for focused product development and launch.
• Operations – Refining the core business process cycles to improve plant layout, throughput acceleration, process simplification, and variability reduction.
• Greenfield Development – Opportunity identification, product development, facility design, supply chain integration to result in fast time to market and high quality customer experience.
• Design for Excellence – DFM and DFA applied to existing and developing products for higher quality delivered in less time and at less cost.

Professional Background

• President, International Business Incubators
• Senior Consultant, Dove Consulting
• Executive VP, PTC, Inc.
• Lockheed Martin
• Product Development Manager
• Staff Engineer

Representative Clients

• B.F. Goodrich
• Johnson & Johnson
• SPX Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Metromedia
• World Kitchen
• Delphi
• Raytheon
• HB Fuller

Education and Associations

• M.B.A., Business Administration, University of Florida
• M.S., Electronic and Electro-Optical Systems, University of Central Florida
• B.S., Engineering Sciences, University of Florida

“I believe that the rapid innovative application of lean, Six sigma and change management tools can transform people, processes, and culture to create businesses that are faster, more responsive and more profitable.”