Ed Smith is a Manufacturing Consultant at EWDS2 Manufacturing Consulting LLC. He possess expertise in business integration, operations management, lean manufacturing, value stream mapping, continuous improvement and 14 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Ed is truly the most dynamic Strategic Leader I have ever worked for. He brought leadership by talking the talk and walking the walk. He built trust by doing what he said he was going to do. He empowered his employees with confidence by raising the bar and encouraging everyone to reach for excellence and think outside the norm. He inspired me to bring passion to my HR Profession by "bringing the human into Human Resources". I am very grateful to have had him as my boss and mentor. Ed is respected for his integrity, values and ethics. He will, undoubtedly, be a great leader wherever his career takes him." and "Ed is one of the strongest operations leaders I know. He is keenly aware of technology application, when appropriate, but focuses on process flow and the culture and people required to execute and improve processes consistently. He is relentlessly seeking improvement and seeking ways to engage the workforce in the improvements. He has demonstrated his general management skill in several turn around situations and usually obtains results rapidly. His turn around plans have made several people successful when they are implemented fully."