Russ M. Pirasteh, PhD, iTLS - ISO Group

Dr. Russ Pirasteh is currently CEO of the iTLS Group. As a former director of Operations Excellence & Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) for Sanmina-SCI Corporation-LRS Division, Russ conducted scientific studies on the efficacy of CPI approaches, which was later published in a groundbreaking article, The Continuous Improvement Trio.

He has held executive, staff and line positions with 23 years of experience in implementation of continuous improvement systems in manufacturing and transactional environments. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering, an MBA in Industrial Management, a BS in Industrial Engineering, Certified Master Black Belt- Lean Six Sigma, and Certified Lean Master. 

Russ formulated TOC/Lean/Six-Sigma (TLS) CPI methodology to fill the gaps among CPI approaches he has experienced. Russ has published numerous articles, including “Continuous Improvement Trio.

Notible Events:
    -1996 Begin to experiment with various combinations of CPI tools  
    -1998 Developed TLS CPI model (no consensus)
    -2003 Documented for the first time in the world: Quantified effects of Lean, Six
               Sigma and TLS
    -2005 Summarized & documented the designed experiments
    -2006 Publicized experiment findings APICS
    -2006 Met Scott Jensen The First CPI Symposium  
    -2007 Introduced TLS-symposium Met Bob Fox and jointly decided on writing a
               book to ensure integrity of iTLS and  
    -2007 Introduced iTLS-­‐Trio model at TOC-­‐ICO (Goldratt -­‐ Las Vegas) Others                published  books based on Russ’s findings    
    -2010 3 years to publish the book to validate the results of implementations
               fully supported the model
 

Presentations

Dr. Pirasteh’s first presentation will review the results of a study using a combination of three popular management programs in order to create a competitive advantage for an organization both locally and globally. The purpose of this study was to compare the individual use of Lean and Six Sigma with a combined approach of TOC, Lean and Six Sigma (TLS), in order to evaluate if there is a statistically significant difference between the results gained from these approaches. Result concluded a significant advantage of using a combined structured TLS approach, verses implementing methods individually.

Russ’s second interactive workshop will reveal the formula for application of TLS.  TLS application study suggests that by applying the combination of TOC, Lean, and Six Sigma, the financial gains from continuous improvement projects could be three to four times greater than applying Lean or Six Sigma alone.