{"id":1698,"date":"2020-02-22T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/?page_id=1698"},"modified":"2020-06-25T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T12:43:51","slug":"itzik-ben-levy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/?page_id=1698","title":{"rendered":"Itzhak (Itzik) Ben Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"direction:ltr\">My name is Itzhak (Itzik) Ben\nLevy, and I am a Lean Expert consultant for implementing LEAN methodology in product\ndevelopment and project management. My main customers are:&nbsp; Israel Ministry of Defense MOD, Israeli Air\nForce, the main Israeli defense industries, and privet industries and\norganization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"direction:ltr\">I hold a BA in Mechanical\nEngineering, Technion Haifa, (1969), and master&#8217;s degree in business\nadministration from Boston University (1991). Since 1969 I worked at Israel\nAerospace Industries, (IAI), as mechanical engineer for 28 years. Later I\nworked there for additional 10 years in leading the implementation of LEAN\nmethodology on project development and management in all IAI divisions and main\nsuppliers. Since my retirement from IAI at 2007, I became a Consultant for\nimproving project management and design, and processes improvement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"direction:ltr\">My experience is implementing the following\nmethodologies: <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n<ul style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<li>Organization change management<\/li>\n<li>Effective Project Management<\/li>\n<li>Kaizen events and workshops<\/li>\n<li>Toyota Production System tools (TPS) (40 tools)<\/li>\n<li>New Product Introduction, (NPI)<\/li>\n<li>LEAN Product Development, (LPD)<\/li>\n<li>LEAN System Engineering (LSE)<\/li>\n<li>VSM \u2013 Value stream and process mapping<\/li>\n<li>DFMA, DFX \u2013 Design for Manufacturing and Assembly<\/li>\n<li>QFD \u2013 Quality Function Deployment<\/li>\n<li>Requirement Elicitation<\/li>\n<li>DTC \u2013 Design to Cost<\/li>\n<li>Risk Management<\/li>\n<li>IPT \u2013 Integrated Product Team<\/li>\n<li>Suppliers chain management and development<\/li>\n<li>Training and mentoring LEAN champions and facilitators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><p style=\"direction:ltr\">Till now, year 2020, during 23 years I\nconducted more than 2000 Kaizen events, workshops and courses in wide variety\nof companies and organizations. This work experience, enable me to adapt my\nknowledge for the customer needs improving development and project management\nprocesses.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Itzhak (Itzik) Ben Levy, and I am a Lean Expert consultant for implementing LEAN methodology in product development and project management. My main customers are:&nbsp; Israel Ministry of Defense MOD, Israeli Air Force, the main Israeli defense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/?page_id=1698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benlevy.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}