Since founding Productivity Centers International (PCI) in 1985, William (Bill) Sandras has provided his expertise to a wide-variety of manufacturing, engineering, software, health care, natural resource, transportation, distribution, administrative, and service organizations throughout the world. His Rapid Breakthrough Events© (RBE) are based on over 30 years of experience helping his customers safely and quickly convert their visions for change into reality. His “one less at a time©” process serves as a systemic driver of continuous improvement. Bill personally provides education, facilitation, implementation, and follow-up support to his customers. 

Bill began his career with Continental Oil Co. as a computer systems / programmer analyst. He then worked for Hewlett-Packard (HP) for 16 years in various management positions. While at HP, Bill worked at two mature divisions and helped to start three new divisions including the ink jet printer division and engineering workstation division. These five divisions manufactured high-volume/low-variety products, and complex low-volume/high variety products.

Bill led HP's first successful Enterprise Resource Planning and Lean/Six Sigma implementations (called MRP and JIT/TQC at the time). He and his team were the first to link Lean and ERP together. He also led product design, and then product marketing and support efforts for a small business ERP software package. Later as a senior manager, he championed three more ERP and two more Lean/Six Sigma implementations.

At HP, Bill managed production, manufacturing engineering, purchasing, planning, order entry, warehousing, shipping, transportation, software development, product marketing, product support, and information systems. Bill also introduced and managed the JIT/TQM worldwide education and consulting services for the Oliver Wight Companies for four years.

Bill holds a Bachelor of Science degree with dual majors in Production Management and Statistics, and a Master of Business Administration degree in Management Science (Operations Research) from the University of Colorado.  

He passed the American Production and Inventory Control Society's certification exams at the highest level and was on their JIT certification test committee. He is on the Association for Manufacturing Excellence editorial board for their “Target” magazine, and is on the joint Lean certification development committee for the Society for Manufacturing Engineers, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, and the Shingo Prize Committee. He also served as an Industry Week best plant reviewer. He wrote the how-to book titled Just-in-Time: Making it Happen that is required reading for Lean certification, plus many articles (see Publications & Other Info).

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