Franck Vermet

Author of an app reflecting the e-book ideas. it has embedded YouTube videos to better explain the simple concepts. also called Adaptive Production Systems and available on Android stores and Apple store.

Over 20 years of experience in Lean implementations, production operations management, project management.

Dedicated, innovative and passionate professional with a proven track record of building improvement mindsets by developing observation and problem-solving skills in people.

Natural leader skilled in building a vision and a strategy to systematically optimize quantifiable key production parameters (safety, quality, cost, delivery).

Lean certified from University of Michigan and Six Sigma Black Belt certified.

Knowledge of various industrial sectors (mining, chemical, oil) from continuous processes to manufacturing through development and industrialisation of new products, from medium-sized firms to Fortune 500 companies.

I have lived 10 years abroad as an expatriate without and then with a family. I am often asked which country I have preferred: my answer is all of them as it is all about the people and the proportion of dummies is the same small percentage in every category of the human population. What counts is to identify them as quickly as possible to avoid them. Otherwise people are always great and willing to share and be open at first then their behavior is a reflection of yours...

Some of my favorite quotes:

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." Megginson

"For eight hundred years have I trained Jedis" Master Yoda

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." Bill Gates

“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” Henry Ford

"There's a way to do it better - find it." Thomas A. Edison

"The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people who were all replaced." Georges Clemenceau