Manager of Client Services
Bill Kraus has nearly 50 years of direct hands-on manufacturing experience. He spent 28 years with Monsanto Chemical Company, Engelhard Corporation, and two privately held companies as Superintendent, General Manager and Vice President levels. His areas of responsibility involved construction, maintenance and manufacturing within 12 manufacturing plants across the U.S. In 1996, he joined the Arkansas Economic Development Commission Manufacturing Solutions NIST MEP team and began a career that afforded the opportunity to participate in world-class manufacturing concepts, including:
- Certified Plexus ISO/QS-9000 trainer/coach
- NIST MEP Certified Lean Manufacturing trainer
- NIST MEP Certified Professional Business Advisor
- Completed 4 weeks of ASQ/Six Sigma Academy Black Belt training
- Passed the SME/AME/ASQ/Shingo Institute Lean Bronze Certification Exam
- Senior Baldrige Examiner for the Arkansas Quality Award
- Kaizen Event facilitator
- Certified TWI Institute Job Instructions, Job Relations and Job Methods trainer
- Toyota Kata (Improvement and Coaching) trainer/facilitator/coach
- Association for Manufacturing Excellence Southeast Region, immediate past President
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