John Henry's ability to make downtime and changeover time disappear as if by magic has earned him worldwide recognition as the Changeover Wizard.
John's broad, deep, experience includes stints in the US Navy, Manager Facility Operations for a pharmaceutical manufacturing campus, and ownership and operation of a manufacturing machinery design, sales & service business. In 1996 he founded Changeover.com to reduce changeover time in manufacturing and other industries. In 2007 he sold the machinery business and since then has focused on SMED, Operational Excellence, Overall Equipment Effectiveness / Efficiency (OEE) and other lean manufacturing activities.
In addition to industry experience, John has been an Adjunct Instructor at Southern New Hampshire University's Graduate School of Business since 1982. In that capacity, John teaches lean Operations Management, Strategic Management, Organizational Theory and Development, Compensation Management and other courses.
John is also an Adjunct Instructor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico where he developed and teaches Packaging Technology in the Industrial Engineering program.
John holds an MBA with concentrations in Industrial Management and Human Resource Management from InterAmerican University (1979). John also holds a Master of Science in Business Education from Southern New Hampshire University (2004)
John has published over 60 papers, articles and columns in industry journals and magazines. Many of these are collected in his book:
Machinery Matters:John Henry on Packaging, Machinery, Troubleshooting
Other books include:
Packaging Machinery Handbook
Achieving Lean Changeover: Putting SMED to Work
Secrets of Buying Packaging Machinery (with Rich Frain)
Secrets of Effective Troubleshooting (Coming in 2014)