Bob Hartung is the President and founder of Parkwood Consulting Inc., a management consulting firm dedicated to increasing client profitability through the deployment of innovative work process improvement programs with plant management and first-line supervision in manufacturing plants across North America. With more than 25 years experience, Mr. Hartung is a hands-on expert in organizational change, having implemented work process re-design and productivity improvement programs with the following Fortune 500 companies:

Chevron/Texaco Dow Chemical BASF Shell Union Carbide Allied-Signal (Honeywell) Celanese Rubicon Unocal Hercules Chemical PPG DuPont Noranda Caterpillar

Ocean Spray Entergy Freeport-McMoRan Banta Printing Monsanto Armstrong Flint Hills Resources Henkel Chemical Inland Steel Armco Steel Ford Motor Chrysler Rohm & Haas Diamond Shamrock

Our team of consultants are experts in advising and coaching senior managers in work process improvement, behavioral change management, work deployment, and how to utilize key performance metrics to drive behavior resulting in sustainable cost savings. Leading successful productivity improvement programs in Maintenance, Production/Operations, Turnarounds, Project and Process Engineering, Laboratory and other support departments, Parkwood consultants balance technical and interpersonal skills to deliver exceptional performance improvement and significant cost savings. Our consultants embrace a high level of professionalism and assimilate quickly with the client to establish a high level of trust and respect with client personnel that result in earning the client’s “buy-in” essential to making an improvement program successful and sustainable.

With a variety of backgrounds ranging from Lean Manufacturing to Total Productive Maintenance, Parkwood Consultants have more than 20 years of experience working in a variety of company cultures in the following industries:

Chemical Processing

Petroleum Refining

Gas Separation

Oil & Gas Production

Automotive Manufacturing

Mining & Metal Processing

Heavy Equipment Production

Steel Manufacturing

Pulp and Paper Mills

Printing Operations

Electric Utilities

Fertilizer Production

Food & Beverage

Pharmaceuticals

Agricultural Processing

Joe Bahr is Vice-President, Business Development for Parkwood Consulting. Prior to joining Parkwood Consulting, Mr. Bahr has held several executive management and account management positions with U.S. and European automation companies, working with plant managers, engineers, and technicians in bringing productivity improvements to their plants. Over the past 22 years, Joe has worked alongside all functional disciplines, from production, manufacturing, and maintenance managers, to project, process, and safety engineers and engineering consultants to construct and operate some of the world’s largest processing facilities and manufacturing plants in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.