With over than 30 years working in industries of different segments (metal mechanic, polymers, rubber, automotive and machining) combined to his enthusiasm for lean process Ricardo has specialized himself planning and implementing new processes and performing process improvement by reducing work in process, cycle time balancing, optimizing operators standard work, supporting lean material strategy, definition of KPIs, identifying and eliminating non value added tasks resulting in production capacity boosting and piece cost reduction. With all these backgrounds he has been providing support to plants to identify and resolve top bottlenecks implementing methodologies for processes monitoring and plant management.Also with a large expertise dedicating more than 10 years in discrete event simulation he has a strong capacity to support partners through the creation of models with a very high level of representativeness for process validation before implementation and support process concept being designed to meet expected productivity targets.