Labor rates, meanwhile, are driven by a classic scenario of demand outpacing supply. The labor pool has yet to fully recover from the pre-crash levels of 12 years ago, and there’s no indication it will until later this decade and even that may be wishful thinking.
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Subir Chowdhury receives IISE Honorary Member Award
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LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is honoring Subir Chowdhury for his lifetime contribution to quality engineering and management with 2021 IISE Honorary Member Award. The IISE Honorary Member Award is the highest honor IISE can grant an individual of acknowledged professional eminence. In IISE s 73 year history, Chowdhury is the 30th recipient of the Honorary Member Award. Past recipients include W. Edwards Deming, Lee Iacocca, W. J. Bentley and Herbert C. Hoover.
Subir Chowdhury is chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group, a global leader on strategic initiatives, quality management and engineering consulting, and training. He has been helping his clients in many industries to transform their organizations by embracing quality and develop processes that increased profitability by saving billions of dollars a
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K, it was supposed to a top 10. But in trying to pare back a long list of people who shaped the motoring industry, the best I could do was 11. I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to strike a line through any of the following – or add a few names of your own.
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