Frank LaFrazia, Master of Management

In a varied thirty year manufacturing career, Frank's accomplishments include:
- Managing the redesign of an assembly operation implementing self-managed work teams that utilized "lean" manufacturing techniques, reducing inventory 50%, increasing productivity 25%, and minimizing scrap to less than 1%. (Graphic Controls - a Tyco company)
- Leading the consolidation of two facilities and their subsequent redesign and relocation, while continuing to satisfy customer demand. (Boise Cascade - Envelope Division)
- Successfully transferring a photographic paper converting operation from Germany to the United States (Agfa - Gevaret, Inc.)
Frank graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S.I.E (Alpha Pi Mu honor society) and earned a Master of Management from Penn State - Great Valley where he published the paper "Just-In-Time Manufacturing in the USA". Frank is a former board member of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence -Â Mid Atlantic Region and former member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
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