Clell Tompkins

Clell Tompkins is an Associate of TranSystems | The ACCESS Group with over 38 years of experience in various industries including plastics, woodworking, painting, silk screening, electronics, assembly, extrusion, injection molding, hot stamping, thermoforming, and tooling. Clell’s operations experience includes extensive leadership roles in manufacturing operations and processes, quality systems including ISO, materials, supply chain logistics, engineering, purchasing, HR functions, concurrent engineering from product design to customer, management and supervision training, and plant relocations & startups. He has held positions as industrial insurance risk engineer; industrial engineer; manufacturing engineer; manager of quality assurance; production manager; plant manager; operations manager; and director of operations. Clell has also served in a number of project rolls such as plant shutdowns, feasibility studies, design of lean manufacturing concepts for new operations, overseeing the renovation for new startup facilities, plant and process moves, hiring and training of staff for new locations, and new production startups. Companies Clell has worked with include Telex Communication, Aladdin Industries, Gibson Guitar, Phillips Consumer Electronics, Magnavox, Industrial Risk Insurance Company and others.

Clell has enjoyed great success in executive positions as leader, teacher, trainer, and hands on supporter for empowering managers, workforces, and work teams taking them to a level of success they never thought possible. This was accomplished through lean principles, employee involvement, learning how to trust, good communication, continuous improvement, an error free environment by doing it right the first time every time, lean organizations, and systems skills. These successes were accomplished using lean tools such as value stream documentation, 5S, work cells, one piece flow, and many other ways of eliminating duplication, bottle necks, errors, and waste. Clell’s knowledge, experience, teaching, and hands-on approach using employee involvement and empowerment enabled others to accomplish major reductions in labor content, reductions in labor turnover from 80% to less than 5%, inventory turns from less than 1 turn to 10 turns in a short time, cycle time reductions from weeks to days, excellent customer service and relations, development of strong teams, and employee satisfaction. He not only teaches and trains workforce empowerment but has the ability to connect with people in all parts of organizations to guide and show them how to accomplish much more through the concept of lean.

Clell has a BS in Industrial Technology from Tennessee Technological University; completed studies and training from the Conway Management Company in continuous improvement and lean concepts; Continuous Improvement Process from Mark IV Industries certified as champion, trainer, and facilitator; Telex Company management and supervision training; Kepner Trego Problem Solving and Decision Analysis Techniques; Value Engineering from East TN State; Concurrent Engineering / Taquchi Methods (Certificate from Western Michigan Univ.); safety training from TOSHA; Overview Training in 6 sigma and Techniques of reducing cost and eliminating waste.