MELVIN R. LOHMANN MEDAL RECIPIENT

Dr. Jack B. ReVelle provides his advice and assistance as a managerial statistician to a vancry of manufacruring and service organizations throughout North America, helping clients of ReVelle Solutions, LLC to locate and solve process problems and significantly reduce product rejection rates. Areas of emphasis of his work include excess cycle time duration and variation, excess labor and material costs, excess defects in production and errors in administration, excess process complexity, insufficient process documentation and unacceptable customer satisfaction scores. Better understanding and continuous improvement in his clients’ processes are accomplished through the use of a broad range of Six Sigma-related tools, techniques and methods. In addition, Jack provides his technical assistance as both a quality and an industrial engineering expert to attorneys in litigation.

 Previously, as director of the Center for Process Improvement for GenCorp Aerojet, Jack provided technical leadership for the Operational Excellence program, including support for all Six Sigma, Lean/Agile Enterprise, Supply Chain Management and High Performance Workplace activities. Prior to this, he was the leader of Continuous Improvement for Raytheon (previously Hughes) Missile Systems Co. whete he established and led the Hughes team that won the 1994 Arixona Pioneer Award for Quality and the 1997 Arizona Governor’s Award for Quality.

 Jack’s previous assignments with Hughes Electronics were at the corporate office as the chief statistician and director of Statistical and Process Improvement Methods and manager of Employee Opinion Research and Training Program Development. Before joining Hughes, he was founding dean of the School of Business and Management at Chapman University and, previously, founding chairman of the University of Nebraska’s Decision Sciences department.

 Jack is one of two people in the world chosen to rcccive both the Taguchi Recognition Award for his successful application of Robust Design and the Akao Prize for outstanding contributions to the advancement of Quality Function Development. He is also a recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Distinguished Economics Development Programs Award and the Distinguished Faculty Award from the National Graduate School of Quality Management.

 The author of Quantitative Methods for Managerial Decisions and Safety Training Methods, chapters for numerous other texts, expert-system software packages and hundreds of technical articles, Jack’s award-winning works have been published in Quality Progress, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management and Professional Safety magazines.

 Jack received his bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Purdue University and both his master’s and doctoral degrees in industrial engineering and management at OSU. Before receiving his Ph.D., he served 12 years in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of major. His honors for military service include being awarded the Bronze Star Medal while stationed in the Republic of Vietnam, as well as the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his work in quality assurance with the Defense Nuclear Agency.