Michael Hatcher
Production | Lean | Quality | Six Sigma | Industrial Engineering | Mfg. Planning
- Role
- Site Capa Leader at GE HealthCare
- Location
- Waukesha, WI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Hatcher
Experienced leader with extensive Lean and operations management background including: production, Lean production system implementation, Six Sigma, quality system management, manufacturing planning, project management, process engineering, and industrial engineering. Strong change agent who understands how to improve throughput, quality, and cost by implementing lean in manufacturing as well as enterprise-wide. Highlights: Developed and deployed Lean production system for General Motors North American assembly plants; Implemented Greenfield Assembly Shops for General Motors; Led $106 million structural cost reduction at General Motors’ Janesville Assembly Plant; Led 30% direct labor productivity improvement at General Motors’ Lordstown Assembly Plant; Led two major model change projects at General Motors assembly plants; Led/mentored 30 GE Lean Six Sigma Projects and earned GE Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (2011) and Master Black Belt Certification (2014); Developed & implemented GE product cost-out process which enabled $90M in cost out; Led GE Healthcare research process improvement efforts which reduced cycle time by 50%; Led GE Healthcare Complaint Handling process improvement which reduced process steps by 50%.
Experience
Site Capa Leader
Oct 2019 — Present
Education
University of Michigan-Flint
MBA, Business Administration
1990 — 1993
Purdue University
BSME, Mechanical Engineering
1981 — 1984
Skills
- Dmaic
- Operational Excellence
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Minitab
- Kaizen
- Smed
- Quality Control
- Injection Molding
- Engineering
- Jit Production
- Materials Management
- Gd&T
- Quality Management
- Manufacturing Operations
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Fmea
- Supplier Quality
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Process Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Toyota Production System
- Root Cause Analysis
- Black Belt
- Value Stream Mapping
- Spc
- Process Improvement
- Six Sigma
- Apqp
- Lean Manufacturing
- Ppap
- Design for Manufacturing
- Kanban
- Mrp
- Iso 9000
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Iso
- Business Process Improvement
- Tqm
- Supply Management
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