Dean H. Stanton · Selected Work
Defense Manufacturing Engineering, ERP-MES Implementation & Program Recovery
Manufacturing-engineering leadership in a defense environment combining complex production support, customer-facing program recovery work, and a controlled transition from a legacy production system toward Visual Manufacturing ERP/MES.
Results
Results and contributions.
This broader measure includes work-instruction improvements and should not be added to the narrower result.
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Situation
Operating context
A defense manufacturer needed to sustain complex production, recover customer-facing execution, and replace a legacy production and inventory system before Y2K-related continuity and data risks became critical.
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Challenge
What made the work difficult
The transition had to proceed inside live defense production with strict configuration, quality, traceability, documentation, data-migration, training, and adoption requirements.
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Dean's role
Responsibility and authority
Dean managed a five-engineer product and manufacturing engineering group supporting two facilities. He led production engineering, facilitated legacy-system replacement and Visual Manufacturing implementation teams, developed schedules, and coordinated vendors, hardware, migration, pilots, training, manufacturing documentation, and process controls. Final ERP approval and vendor delivery were shared responsibilities.
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Actions
How the work moved forward
- Managed product and manufacturing engineering across two defense-production facilities.
- Led production engineering support on the MK 41 Vertical Launching System program and related customer-facing defense work.
- Facilitated the legacy PICS replacement and Visual Manufacturing implementation program, including vendor evaluation, schedules, hardware, data conversion, pilots, training, and manufacturing controls.
- Produced and coordinated controlled manufacturing documentation, configuration, tooling, calibration, digital work-instruction, and work-aid systems.