Hervé Ghesquières
MANUFACTURING Ghesquières created an Efficiency Improvement Team , which is also known as the company ’ s Industrial Engineering Team . By creating an efficiency and resources planning system from scratch , the team is defined by its ‘ training by doing ’ approach . This system allowed Ghesquières and his team to have a clear overview of plant capacities , identify bottlenecks and highlight priority areas that needed working on to de-bottleneck the plants and improve the efficiency of the operations while improving the quality of the products .
“ At first we had to create the efficiency team , in order to have the workforce physically doing the job , training by doing ,” he says . “ Then , by creating Industrial Engineering systems in order to have visibility on the capacities , the bottlenecks and the headcounts of the plants , we were
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Hervé Ghesquières
Hervé Ghesquières is the Global Head of Industrial Engineering and Lean Manufacturing of Prometeon , the ex-Pirelli Industrial Tyres . He has been working 17 years in the Tier 1 automotive industry of which 9 as an executive in industrial efficiency . Hervé has a strong experience in the management of the efficiency increase and the competitiveness improvement of operative organisations , involving the people , from the operators to the top managers . This is his passion . These last years , drastic efficiency improvements have been consolidated , thanks to the optimisation of the industrial footprint reorganisation and the implementation of strong continuous improvement actions . And lately , as Hervé did for Pirelli , he created and set up , for Chemchina tyres division , who became the main shareholder of Pirelli in 2015 , the Industrial Engineering organization in charge of the management of the efficiency and the competitiveness of its factories in China . This enables Pirelli ’ s new shareholder to be more competitive on the global market .
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