D. Mitchell, President and CEO, Ergonomic Services
Dennis Mitchell is President and CEO of ErgExperts. Mr. Mitchell has a Masters (M.A.Sc.) and Bachelors (B.A.Sc.) degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. Mr. Mitchell is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) as well as a member of the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
Mr. Mitchell has been involved in the startup and management of ergonomic
consulting companies for the last 20 years and is entering his 25th year
as an ergonomic consultant. Mr. Mitchell has testified in public hearings
for OSHA and the Department of Labor regarding the cost effectiveness
of ergonomic programs and initiatives as part of President Clinton's Ergonomics
Standard. Mr. Mitchell holds numerous patents related to the measurement
of musculoskeletal stress and product design. Mr. Mitchell also performs
analysis and support for expert witness services and labor arbitration
matters.
Mr. Mitchell has been involved in a range of projects from the development of corporate ergonomics programs to new plant as well as line designs and the testing and selection of individual tools and equipment. Mr. Mitchell has analyzed and provided ergonomic solutions for thousands of jobs in the Manufacturing, Office, Government, and Service sectors. Mr. Mitchell is frequently involved in the development and delivery of corporate ergonomic training programs from upper management to the employees working on the floor.
Mr. Mitchell takes a direct role in the development and delivery of consulting related services, products, and methods.
Luis E. Morales holds a M.Sc. degree in Ergonomics from the Luleå Tekniska
Universitet, (Luleå University of Technology), Sweden and a Bachelor degree
in Industrial Design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (The
Autonomous Metropolitan University), Mexico City.
Mr. Morales has experience as a Design and Ergonomics Consultant in various
industries including: Automotive, installing a state of the art Ergonomics
Laboratory and training personnel on its correct use; Locomotive, completing
a study to detect causes for developing musculoskeletal disorders among
overhaul maintenance workers; Medical equipment, developing CAD databases
and procedures for a medical disposable equipment manufacturer for haemodialisis,
infusion, transfusion and nutrition; Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (HEV), implementing
user-centered ergonomics in the design of cockpit and access to different
components.
Mr. Morales has proficiency in a variety of Ergonomic Job Design Analysis
and Software, as well as in Data Acquisition Tools and Methods
Mr. Allerton is a partner in ErgExperts. Until the end of 2000 he was a Director within the LINX Division of A.T. Kearney. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of LINX Participative Consultants Inc. and a Principal in the Operations Management Group of Peat Marwick Stevenson & Kellogg (part of KPMG). He has a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (B.Eng.), and is a Certified Management Consultant (C.M.C.).
Mr Allerton has been a professional management consultant since 1964 (nearly 40 years). He specializes in industrial engineering and operations management. He practised as a management consultant with H.B. Maynard & Co. in the UK and Europe until early 1977. He specialized in work methods and standards, maintenance management systems, and training and development. He provided industrial engineering consulting services to many medium and large corporations such as Unilever, Shell, Royal Ordinance Factories (ROF), Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS), Rolls Royce, Ford Motor Company, ITT, etc.
Mr. Allerton immigrated to Canada from Great Britain in 1977, when he became a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE). He joined Stevenson & Kellogg (S&K) in Toronto in 1977, worked extensively throughout North America in the fields of productivity improvement and training. S&K eventually became part of KPMG. Significant clients with KPMG included Northern Telecom, Xerox, Hawker Siddley, Department of National Defence (DND - Canada), Department of Defense (DoD - USA), Suncor, Parks Canada, Transport Canada, National Capital Commission (NCC), Office of the Auditor General (OAG), and Canada Post Corporation (CPC).
Mr Allerton became one of the first Methods-Time Measurement (MTM) instructors in the UK (1963), and one of the first Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST) instructors in the world (1975). He helped to develop MOST.
With two partners, Mr. Allerton formed an independent management consulting company - LINX Participative Consultants in 1992. Major clients in the field of industrial engineering included CPC, the United States Postal Service (USPS), Revenue Canada and General Motors (GM). In 1994 LINX was sold to the Management Consulting Services division of EDS. When EDS bought A.T. Kearney in 1996, LINX became a division of Kearney.
Mr. Allerton retired from full-time employment with A.T. Kearney at end of 2000, and became a partner in ErgExperts. He has published a number of articles concerned with specialized aspects of Industrial Engineering -- including a chapter of the 2001 edition of Maynard's Industrial Engineering Handbook. He has spoken at numerous seminars and technical sessions. Mr. Allerton complements the work of the Ergonomists by added the elements of methods analysis and improvement, and productivity measurement to the analysis and implementation of ergonomic solutions designed to improve health and safety and increase productivity.
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment, and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skills in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences, together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.
Industrial Engineering optimizes the use of human resources, materials, facilities, equipment, tools, technologies, and information to produce the highest quality products and services in safe and cost-effective ways, while taking into account the needs of customers and employees.
The mission of the industrial engineer since the inception of the profession has been "productivity improvement". In fact, the title productivity engineering could be substituted for industrial engineering
