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About the President – Leroy Morrow

As president and founder of Basic Lean, Inc., Leroy has assisted major corporations with their objective to convert traditional manufacturing strategies into the Toyota Production System (TPS) / Lean Manufacturing System.   Additionally, he has provided training and implementation of lean principles to the administrative and support operations.  Leroy’s expertise is in the implementation of lean principles as is demonstrated by the extraordinary success of the facilities where he has worked.  

 

Prior to the inception of Basic Lean, Leroy’s saga includes thirty-two years of manufacturing experience with extensive training in TPS.  He has received numerous certifications in TPS implementation and numerous awards and recognition for his training and implementation skills. 

 

For the first twenty-two years of his career, Leroy was affiliated with General Motors at the GMAD assembly plant in Fremont, California and Ft. Wayne Truck and Bus in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  His introduction to TPS began in 1984 as a start-up management member at the joint venture between General Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation, NUMMI in Fremont, California.  In 1987 he was selected as part of the management team for the start-up and launch of Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown, Kentucky and trained at various North American Toyota locations and the Japanese Toyota assembly plants in Takaoka, Tsutsumi and Motomachi. 

 

 
 
   

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