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JD Gray Associates is a factory management consulting firm specializing in small to medium size parts materials handling, direct labor control systems and product automation. The company has more than twenty-five years experience in industrial engineering, product automation, materials handling, and manufacturing management.

JD Gray Associates has extensive experience in developing labor standards and methods, plant layout, short interval scheduling, staffing analyses, Just-In-Time techniques, and the establishment of industrial incentive programs. They also have significant experience in automating assembly operations. They have pioneered the design and implementation of a controlled work atmosphere in assembly and machining systems frequently saving clients 30% to 50% in labor costs and factory space. They also have a significant amount of experience in work-in-progress inventory reduction, stockroom design and operations.

JD Gray Associates has implemented many industrial automation systems. They are recognized experts in the planning, design, line balancing, and installation of paced systems having engineered over one hundred synchronized devices and one thousand finished products. These have been installed in both low-tech and hi-tech assembly and machining operations. They have extensive experience with coupling paced conveyor type systems with pick and place robotics.

Before entering the consulting profession, their director held positions in industry as factory automation manager, productivity improvement manager, and general foreman with Perkin-Elmer, Honeywell and Johnson and Johnson. In the consulting field, he has worked with manufacturers of electronic components and assemblies, mechanical components, electro-mechanical products, pharmaceuticals, printed circuit boards, thermoelectrical modules, hydraulic assemblies, etc.

The company has been a consultant with over fifty corporations including Burroughs, Graco, Magnavox, Union Switch, Warner and Xerox. They have engineered, designed, and implemented plant-wide conveyor and driverless vehicle materials handling systems. They have also interfaced programmed dispatch transporters, live storage and retrieval carousels, and paced rotary indexing machines into cohesive networks. They have been responsible for TQM implementation with hundreds of both union and non-union employees.

The company works closely with CEO's in developing plant operations policy for job performance. They also helped senior management develop direct labor controls, and improve employee work habits and morale.