Larry O’Keefe is the owner and founder of LJ O’Keefe Lean Manufacturing Consultants. With over 30 years of experience in engineering, product development, manufacturing management and Lean, Larry has facilitated multiple lean transformations for businesses across the United States. Larry brings a dedicated and unique approach to helping client companies experience significant improvements in all manufacturing metrics and takes pride in providing superior results for each client. Larry's consulting company, LJ OKeefe Lean Manufacturing Consultants, helps you stop wasting so much money and time by identifying weaknesses, unresolved issues, and inefficiencies and attacking them one by one, eliminating waste to deliver sustainable bottom-line results. Using a powerful mix of experience, expertise, and best-practice methodologies, LJ OKeefe produces simple solutions to your most significant problems. We tackle transformational challenges, large and small, with a strategic, customized approach that takes your business to the next level of profitability and productivity. Real results with real clients:• Net profit increased by $7 million for a company with sales of $90 million• $10 million in annual savings for client company with $120 million in salesRelieved of the stress of firefighting to deliver product, clients are able to focus on what is most important to their future success.►►►Email me at larryokeefe@ljokeefe.com -- Subject line: Lean TransformationLarry earned his Masters from Western Michigan University in Mechanical Engineering, and was mentored by the experts from the Toyota Supplier Support Center (TSSC). As an operations executive and lean manufacturing expert, Larry has personally led innumerable lean transformations for a variety of manufacturers. With his experience comes an in depth working knowledge of how to apply the tools and philosophies of lean manufacturing based on TPS, which has translated on an incredible scale to his client’s production efficiency. Over the years Larry’s work has been highlighted in several published works. Notable mentions include Merchants of Virtue (Birchard, 2011), and by President and CEO of Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America, Atsushi Niimi, at high profile speaking engagements.
Listed skills include Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, Manufacturing, and 33 others.
