Adept technical business leader with Fortune 1000 industrial companies, delivering proven results through strategic capabilities in general management, supply chain leadership, manufacturing operations, Industry 4.0, and AI.
Lyman Tschanz
Lyman Tschanz is an accomplished business leader with industrial companies, with over 40 years of global leadership experience guiding exceptional business results across engineering and technical sectors including industrial automation, automotive, and energy and power. He delivers results by growing, improving, and transforming the profitability and performance of complex businesses. Lyman is an experienced leader in identifying opportunities, driving positive change, and realizing business improvements both in the US and in most regions outside of the US. He is a respected consultant in smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, and maintains a broad range of business and government relationships. He has an extensive background in manufacturing operations and in supply chains of technical businesses, including spin-offs, start-ups, turnarounds, and operational restructuring.
Immediately prior to founding the AI Strategies Group, Lyman provided consulting services by founding PL Supply Chain Consulting, where he successfully executed strategic improvement projects for small businesses and start-ups in the midwest.
Expertise
Lyman began his career as an engineer, and moved through various developmental roles after earning his MBA at the University of Wisconsin. Much of his early career was in manufacturing leadership roles, delivering operational improvements and successful plant start-ups by being an early adopter of continuous improvement methodologies. He was responsible for the P&L of a large Tier 1 automotive business, transitioning and growing the business from being a regional component supplier to a global systems supplier.
Lyman then joined the supply chain organization of Rockwell Automation, the leading industrial automation company in North America. In this role he delivered significant growth and cost productivity improvements, through relocating operations from high cost to low cost regions and guiding start-ups and expansions in emerging regions. He transitioned the business from multi-legacy systems to a single business system, while simultaneously implementing smart manufacturing in plant operations and supply chain. Lyman takes pride in his track record of coaching and developing key leadership talent, improving talent depth, increasing diversity, and increasing employee engagement. He was engaged with consulting services for a broad range of Fortune 1000 global C-suite operations and IT leaders to educate and support strategy development in smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0.
Education and Personal Life
Lyman holds an MBA and a Bachelors of Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and has completed numerous continuing education sessions. Lyman lives in Hartland Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, with his wife and high school sweetheart Sue. Outside of work, Lyman enjoys family time with his three married children and eight grandchildren, is an avid outdoorsman, travels extensively, and volunteers in a variety of non-profit and community roles.
Specialties
- Strategic and General Management
- Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing
- Product Configuration – Stock Products, Configure to Order,
- Engineer to Order
- Business and Operational Refootprinting
- Business Consolidations and Restructuring
- Change Management
- Business Systems Transformations
- Continuous Improvement and Lean Processes
- Disciplined Problem Solving
- Talent Development
- Quality and Customer Service Management
Industries
- General Industrial Manufacturing
- Industrial Automation and Robotics
- Automotive
- Control and Circuit Board Technology
- Warehousing, Distribution, and Logistics
- Industrial Software / MES
- Electrical Power and Energy
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