Following a career in Industrial and Production Engineering commencing 1960, in the high precision Automotive and Printing machinery sectors, resulting in the position of Works Manager, David moved into Education and consultancy in 1969 primarily to stimulate a response from British manufacture to the growing challenge from Japan.He organised the first ever seminar in the UK entitled 'Total Quality Control' in 1973. Established his own consultancy, education and training organisation in 1975, was responsible for the inspiration and organisation of the epoc making event 'The Japanese Approach to Product Quality' held at the Institute of Directors in 1979 at which Professor Ishikawa made his one and only ever visit to the UK and Europe. Since then David Hutchins has continued to pursue and confirm his beliefs in an approach to the achievement of QUALITY EXCELLENCE through people involvement and empowerment as opposed to the short sighted conformance route and has worked min over 40 Countries, has won Outstanding Achievement Awards and an internationally recognised Literature Award for his 9th book Quality Beyond Borders.David has carried out Governmental Change Management Assignments contracted through UNIDO and the World Bank in both Egypt and Tunisia, was Technical Advisor for the 5 Part BBC Select Series of TV Broadcasts on TQM in the early 1990s.Specialties: Hoshin Kanri, Policy and Strategy Deployment, and Policy Control, TQM, all concepts included under the banners Lean and Six Sigma, Project by Project Improvement, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) , self managing work groups and quality circles (QC Circles), New Product Development tools and process, Supply Chain Management, Benchmarking, creation and delivery of e-learning and distance learning materials, to approximately Level 7/8 from Level 3 in the Quality Sciences and Disciplines. Author of 9 best selling books, Proudest achievements: 1) To singlehandedly provide outside assistance to a major British Aircraft Manufacturer when accused of being a British Government owned 'lame duck'. After making consistent losses for the preceding 15 years. returned a net profit of £45m in just two years2) Assisting a 3m tonnes a year steel producer to increase production to 4m tonnes pa with virtually no additional capital investment & saving over $220m in just 3 years with an accrued annual saving of $69m per year. By this year, production has more than doubled to more than 7.8 m tonnes when the rest of the worlds steel industry has been struggling.