Staff Profile
Bruce Ireland, Lean Consultant   

Bruce Ireland has been with CONNSTEP for over 13 years as a Lean Consultant and over the past twenty years, Bruce has been providing management consulting to manufacturing companies world-wide.

Bruce specializes in helping manufacturing companies implement improvements that will lead to better operational and financial performance. With a focus on Lean, he has been involved in analyzing present operations, making recommendations for improved performance, developing action plans, providing education and supporting implementation for results. He has helped implement many continuous improvement concepts and techniques, such as Lean Manufacturing, Just-In-Time (JIT), Cellular Manufacturing, Kaizen, and Total Quality Management (TQM). He has also interfaced extensively with the Systems (MRP) and the Financial/Audit areas.

Bruce has been involved with ISO 9000 procedures, documentation, training and implementation. He has experience with many different processes, such as press room, screw machines, die cast, injection molding, CNC and miscellaneous machining, finishing/plating, and various assembly/packaging operations.

Bruce has designed and presented many educational seminars/workshops that have involved top level executives, middle management and factory floor employees (union and non-union). He has utilized a simulation game to actively involve the participants in learning how to relate the concepts to actual results. This has lead to him facilitating many cross-functional teams to solve specific problems.

Prior to CONNSTEP, Bruce held various management positions in Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, Production, Industrial Engineering and Production/Inventory Control.

Bruce graduated with a BS in Engineering from California Polytechnic University with a concentration in Industrial Engineering and Business Management. He was awarded a Master of Science Degree in Management from the Hartford Graduate Center (Rensselaer).

He is a NIST Certified Instructor for all Lean modules and a MEP-MSI Certified Instructor for Time Wise.