Michel Baudin
The Takt Times Group
Lean Sensei, Author

Since 1995, he has taught short courses on the details of lean manufacturing, the management of lean manufacturing implementation, the lean approach to quality, and lean manufacturing for small and medium-size companies, as well as customized in-house seminars for consulting clients.

These courses have been offered to the public through UC Berkeley extension, the University of Dayton's Center for Competitive Change, and the Hong Kong Productivity Center, and have been used in house by Honda, Boeing, Canon, Raytheon, Applied Materials, VDO, Siemens, and others. His prior experience includes being a director of the Menlo Park Technology Center of Teknekron Corporation, leading a group at Schlumberger/Fairchild that designed, tested, and supported maintenance management, production scheduling, and quality control software that is in use in semiconductor factories; giving technical support for CIM installations in Japan on behalf of Consilium corporation; and implementing the OPT scheduling system in two General Motors factories. Mr. Baudin is author of four books as well as 22 articles and papers in various journals since 1977. His academic background includes a Master's Degree in Engineering from the Ecole des Mines, Paris; work at the Hahn-Meitner Institute of Berlin; and research at the University of Tokyo. He is a senior fellow of the University of Dayton's Center for Competitive Change, and a member of the IMSE External Advisory Board of Ohio University. Michel Baudin is fluent in French, Japanese, and German, and is learning Spanish.