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Mark Spearman, President and CEO, Factory Physics In this session we will discuss: -Manufacturing Myths that Muddle Management: -Bottlenecks and non-bottlenecks—meeting demand -One Piece Flow—what is the real cost? -ABC Inventory Policies—how low can you go? And many more! Mark L. Spearman is President and CEO of Factory Physics, Inc., a firm that provides management consulting, training, and software to improve manufacturing and supply chain management. In his former life as an academic, he was Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University and also a professor at Georgia Tech and Northwestern University. He is coauthor, with Wallace J. Hopp, of the book, “Factory Physics” that was named the IIE Book of the Year. He has helped more than one hundred companies over the last twenty five years apply the principles of factory physics to improve operations by increasing productivity, reducing cycle times and inventories by developing integrated supply chain approaches that are both simple and effective.