Steve Aragon, Consultant

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General Expertise

Steve Aragon is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt; he is a proven LEAN practitioner at Rapid LEAN Deployment. Utilizing LEAN Concepts and Techniques i.e., Process Mapping, Kaizen and Visual Factory tools he helps organizations reduce cost and increase efficiencies resulting in rapid business growth and savings.

Individual Areas of Expertise

• Lean Enterprise – Identifying non-value added activities and reducing those activities from order to cash .
• Kaizen Leader – Implementing Kaizen concepts to achieve rapid savings from Cycle Time Reduction, Direct Labor Savings and Defect Reduction.
• Leadership Coaching – Management and Supervisor coaching to increase value and to implement change related to continuous improvement at the shop floor level.
• Operations Assessment – Rapidly assesses the order to cash process using Process Mapping Tools to identify non-value added activities and to quickly eliminate those activities.

Professional Background

• Consultant, OptimWorks Consulting Inc.
• Site Implementation Lead, D&H Consulting
• Director, Manufacturing Operations Catalent Pharma Solutions

Representative Clients

• Taconic Farms, Hans Design

Education and Associations

• B.A., Business Administration, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe New Mexico.

"Using LEAN Tools and Six Sigma can give companies a competitive edge; today many companies require suppliers to have a Lean program. Providing a competitive edge over companies that are not Lean thinkers"