Staff Profile
Roy Laun, Lean Consultant   

Roy Laun has been with CONNSTEP over nine years as a Lean Consultant.  For the past 25 years, Roy has been at varying levels of corporate management and management consulting to manufacturing companies in Connecticut and abroad.

Roy specializes in assisting manufacturing companies implement improvements that will lead to better operational and financial performance utilizing contemporary tools, such as Six Sigma and Lean. With a focus on Lean Manufacturing, Roy has been involved in analyzing present operations, making recommendations for improved performance, developing action plans, providing education and supporting implementation for results. He has helped implement many continuous improvement concepts and techniques, such as Toyota Production System (TPS) Lean Manufacturing, Just-In-Time (JIT), Cellular Manufacturing, Kaizen, Total Quality Management (TQM) and Poke Yoke (Mistake Proofing). He has also assisted clients with team building, cellular flow implementation and inventory reduction.

Roy is very experienced with many manufacturing processes, such as press room, screw machines, die cast, injection molding, CNC, turning, milling grinding and miscellaneous machining, finishing/plating and various assembly/packaging operations.

Roy has designed and presented many educational seminars/workshops that have involved top level executives, middle management and factory floor employees in both union and non-union environments. He utilizes simulation games to actively involve the participants in learning how to relate the concepts to actual results. This has led to his successful facilitating of many cross-functional teams in a kaizen environment to solve specific problems that impeded production and eroded the bottom line.

Roy has held various senior leadership positions in Manufacturing, Engineering, Production, Industrial Engineering and Production/Inventory Control.

Roy graduated with a BS in Engineering from The University of Hartford with a concentration in
Mechanical Engineering. He was awarded a Master of Science Degree in Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. He also has an MBA from the University of Hartford (Barney School of Business) in Operations Management. He is a NIST Certified Instructor for all Lean modules and a certified Six Sigma Black Belt Champion.