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Keith Copeland Joined Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd in 1989 spending the majority of the last 18 years working with a team responsible for the monitoring and development of the Nissan European supplier base.
Keith is trained in a vast array of continuous improvement tools and management methodologies covering many aspects of lean and agile manufacturing including Six Sigma, Change Management, TQM, Objective Deployment, Value Stream Mapping and Benchmarking. He is also trained in many of the individual productivity improvement and problem solving tools used throughout manufacturing and has extensive experience training suppliers and other manufacturing companies as well as facilitating improvement activities.
Having initially served an engineering apprenticeship in the shipbuilding industry Keith’s experience now covers many facets of engineering, manufacturing and supplier development. Due to this extensive experience Keith has spent the last 4 years seconded to the Regional Development Agency ‘One Northeast’ where he works as an Improvement Engineer developing Nissan suppliers as well as many non-automotive manufacturing companies in the North East of England. To date he has assisted over 513 companies of which 247 are regional, training in excess of 2000 people in many areas of Continuous Improvement.
Keith has a master’s degree with distinction in engineering management, a first class honours degree in Information Technology and numerous Engineering and quality related qualifications. He is currently in his final year of a PhD researching the effects of continuous improvement tools and management methodologies on the automotive supplier base and why the failure rates for implementation is still extremely high. His work was been published in a number of academic journals and business magazines and he has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences throughout the UK representing Nissan and the regional development agency. |
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