Ronnie Daughtry - Assistant Vice President

Ronnie Daughtry, Assistant Vice President with TranSystems|The ACCESS Group, is Manager of Project Operations and a Senior Lean Consultant with over seventeen years of experience holding various leadership and managerial roles in lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, supplier quality engineering, manufacturing operations, and human resources. The balance of his various leadership roles have been in the automotive sector for Robert Bosch Corporation in many locations in North America, South America, and Europe.

Ronnie has managed lean implementation efforts and applied lean principles in each of the roles he has held including the development and leadership of a division-wide strategy for lean manufacturing implementation as a base foundation toward lean enterprise. His approach is based on facilitating and driving value stream improvements with clients and colleagues worldwide. Ronnie has implemented and standardized site approaches to Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) or Quick Changeover, Design for Manufacturability (DFM/DFA), Production System Design, Lean Line Design, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Manufacturing Analysis, and Mistake Proofing that have contributed to the overall lean system design in the locations where he has been associated. Ronnie has also implemented with great success an associate suggestion implementation system known as Kaizen Teian in many pilot sites. He is also well versed in Policy Deployment and Problem Solving methods.

In addition to being a lean practitioner, Ronnie is also a high energy speaker and a professional facilitator. Ronnie has been trained and certified as a Metaplan Facilitator and has moderated many leadership visioning and strategic planning sessions.

Ronnie has a Masters in Management and Organizational Development , Bachelors in Management and Human Relations from Trevecca Nazarene University, and an AS degree in Communications from Volunteer State Community College. Additional trainings are as follows: Steven Covey- Principle Centered Leadership Series, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Harris Lean Systems- Creating Continuous Flow and Making Materials Move, BAMA- Toyota Production System Executive Training, TPM Institute- Implementing TPM with Ed Hartman, and Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) –Value Stream Mapping and Creating Continuous Flow with Mike Rother.