Michael Stephenson

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ABOUT MICHAEL STEPHENSON

Production Support 56 will help you deliver improvements to your processes and capabilities. 07•••••••55 to discuss how we can help or contact us m•••@productionsupport56.co.uk or Mike excels in delivering operational improvements. He focusses on getting the operational design right to meet business’s needs. He believes having the right processes, right systems, right people, right materials in the right place leads to better performance than the competitors.Dr Michael Stephenson is a qualified Chemist and spent his career in Process Development, Process Improvement and Operational Design. Mike has been using Manufacture Simulation and modelling to support design and growth plans for the last 10 years. Mike is a dedicated, dependable professional with over 20 years’ experience in the Manufacturing and Development sectors. He is passionate about process improvement and have successfully driven sustainable business change through operational improvements. He has the ability to critically assess the current situation, and create and communicate a clear vision for the future. As well as seeing the bigger picture he works to make sure the details are right. he is task focused, hands on, creative, flexible, positive, self-disciplined, and an effective leader of both people and change management. Most of all he is results and outcome driven. He is currently based in Doncaster. Key successes include:1. Productionising an R&D facility. Standardised all activities, materials and measurements. Clear experimental forms to capture all details. Produced standardised data and analysis packages for each experiment. Removed highly skilled technicians from routine work. Reduced consumable costs by 20% each year. Reduced delivery time of each experiment from 3 weeks to 3 days. Significantly reduced variation.2. Implemented growth and process improvement plan for a new metal powder production route, from Pilot Plant (2 tpa) to Demonstrator Plant (200 tpa).3. Created a fully configurable Manufacturing Simulation for metal powders plant. User defined product type, unit costs (geographic costs) and scale. Data set from Pilot and Demonstrator plant. Used as a sales tool to identify operational costs, labour requirements, material usage under different scenarios.