I have had many years of personal experience working with Gary Waters in the automotive industry. Gary’s knowledge of the Toyota Production System (TPS) coupled with his experience in materials, logistics, information systems, purchasing and production management, makes him a valuable resource with a proven record of reducing costs and improving efficiencies in these areas. He has successfully taken these skills on the road to suppliers where he provided training in TPS and Kaizen to identify areas for reduced costs. This provided a “Win / Win” situation for both the supplier and the purchasing company.

His positive attitude and “can-do” philosophy makes him extremely easy to work with in all situations.

Mickey L. Powell
Vice President
Sales & Purchasing
Trim Masters Inc.

 
During 2001, KS Automotive undertook a major investment in building a state of the art plastic injection molding facility in San Leandro, California. With Toyota Motor Manufacturing, New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI), and General Motors as the end user of our products, we realized early on that we required assistance in bringing our management team and team members up to speed quickly in the journey of implementing the Toyota Production System.

With his expertise on the Toyota Production System and hands-on approach, Gary Waters was instrumental in aiding us in making the dramatic move forward in implementing such concepts as 5S, one piece flow, quick changeover, FIFO, and Visual Management, along with the concepts of every shipment, defect free, to every customer 100% on time.

Gary was also instrumental in implementing team member focused Continuous Improvement Programs, which further drove home the concepts of TPS while helping to achieve customer cost reduction targets. All while fostering and maintaining a safe working environment.

We would recommend Gary Waters to any organization that is truly interested in moving forward in the journey to lean manufacturing.

Jeffery Cranor
Vice-President
KS Automotive

 
From being mentored by Gary Waters to working with him on various projects, I have been involved in or exposed to his projects for over 15 years. Gary has a knack for pinpointing opportunities for improvement and finding ways to take advantage of a companies natural talent to improve production, cut costs and improve cash flow.

Gary has used his knowledge of the Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Kanban, Kaizen, and 5S to push companies and departments to the forefront of their industry and to benchmark status. His matter of fact approach and team leadership skills creates an environment of buy in and enthusiastic participation by all team members.

I could not recommend Gary Waters enough to a company that wants to maximize efficiency, productivity and cash flow. I myself look forward to the next opportunity I get to work with Gary.

Dan Crenshaw
Plant Manager
Barrier Systems, Inc.