Come out to the NCMA North Texas November 2019 Dinner meeting and hear Mr. Kent Newtown speak on the topic of “How the Theory of Constraints Impacts Suppliers”. You will find information about our speaker below. Hope to see you there!
MR. KENT NEWTOWN
Kent has 40 plus years of engineering, manufacturing and operations support experience with Texas Instruments, MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. and Raytheon Company. He became involved with Product Flow and Cycle Time Improvement in 1992 as a charter member of the TI Jonah Network, working with Silicon Materials Department, inside Texas Instruments. Results: greater than 50% inventory reduction, 75% lot cycle time improvement and 25% more throughput from existing resources earned the JONAH excellence award from Texas Instruments. Similar results were obtained throughout operations of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. after a Joint Venture with TI and MEMC, where Kent was able to transfer Cycle Time Improvement knowledge to MEMC.
Kent has taught Theory of Constraint management concepts and Global Improvement Operational Methods tools in Italy, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan as well as in US operations. Recent focus has been on TOC Scheduling Methods, Focused Lean and Critical Chain Project Planning in US Operations. He has written several articles and papers and has presented his success story to the APICS Constraint Management SIG.
Kent holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida. He is a certified Jonah through Baylor University and the Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute and is a charter member of the TOC-ICO (Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization). Kent retired as the World-Wide Operations Improvement Manager from MEMC in Jan 2002 and established Newtown Associates, continuing to promote Constraint Management and Focused Lean Methods through Workshops and contract assignments. In November 2007 Kent joined Raytheon as a Material Program Manager to focus past successes toward Raytheon’s Supply chain and has taught Theory of Constraints as part of University of Texas at Dallas, Supply Chain and Lean / Six Sigma certification programs.
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