Leo Roth Klein
Leo
Roth Klein is the President of Manufacturing Control Systems,
Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Klein has, for more than thirty
years, been involved in the development and implementation of
systems and process for the control of materials and the
management of production resources. He is recognized as:
Certified Fellow in Production & Inventory Management (CFPIM)
by the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS),
Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) by the Computer and
Automated Systems Association of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers (CASA/SME), Professional Certified in Materials
Management (PCMM) by the International Materials Management
Society (IMMS), Certified Electronic Commerce Professional (CECP)
by the Association of Electronic Commerce Professionals
International (AECPI). He has served on Sub-Committee H
(Materials Management) and the Strategic Implementation Task
Group of ASC X12, the standards body for Electronic Data
Interchange, and the Policy Board of the CALS (Computer Aided
Acquisition and Logistic Support) Industry Steering Group of
the National Defense Industrial Association.
Mr. Klein has been directly involved in the implementation,
integration, and operational effectiveness of Material
Requirements Planning, Manufacturing Resource Planning,
Distribution Requirements Planning, Distribution Resource
Planning, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems,
Enterprise Resource Planning, and Supply Chain Management
systems across numerous industrial segments including:
automotive, ship building, industrial capital equipment,
electronics, aerospace, defense, consumer goods, medical, food
and confection, industrial products and others. His
assignments have covered batch-lot, batch-process, job shop,
repetitive, and contract manufacturing. He has additional
efforts in interactive graphic design including IGES and STEP
data transfer. Among the other standards, enabling the
integrated supply chain, he has experienced are: UN/EDIFACT,
SGML/XML, and CGM.
He has served on the Technical Forum of CASA/SME being part of
the process of defining and redefining the Computer Integrated
Manufacturing (CIM) framework. He has been contracted as a
Subject Matter Expert to the United States Department of
Defense for Logistics Plans and Programs, managed Delivery
Orders for the Department of Defense, and served on committees
developing various military standards for the neutral exchange
of manufacturing and engineering data. He has been a frequent
speaker at international, national and regional conferences as
well as Instructor for in-plant classes and
university-sponsored seminars. He has served as a Course
Leader in the Manufacturing Division of the American
Management Associations since 1980. He is the author of over
twenty white papers and has been a monthly columnist for two
manufacturing oriented magazines.
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