R. Michael Mahoney is a leading thinker on high-mix strategy, and the author of the college text High-Mix, Low-Volume Manufacturing, published through Hewlett-Packard Press by Prentice-Hall ©1997. He has published numerous articles in the trade press on subjects relating to product design, process design, test, and total quality control (TQC).

He is the President of Manufacturing Decision Analysis, LLC. A consultancy and seminar company specializing in helping high-mix manufacturers attain competitive advantage.

He has more than two decades of experience working in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment at Hewlett-Packard Company with broad experience from the customer site through product development to the factory floor.

He is recognized in the International Who’s Who of Professionals for his contributions in production and inventory management and is a Fellow of the American Production and Inventory Control Society. He is a member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), The American Society for Quality (ASQ), The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and The American Management Association (AMA).

Mr. Mahoney can be reached at: mike@hmlv.com