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Optiprise is a certified, minority owned company founded in 1998 to provide lean transformation services. It was formed as a partnership between Dann and Que-Lan Engels of Holland, Michigan and Jeffrey Liker of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Optiprise is an S-Corporation. Optiprise is dedicated to eliminating waste in manufacturing value streams and creating speed in lean enterprises through engineering, educating and enabling implementation and transformation services. Optiprise professionals bring appropriate combinations of lean tools and methodologies and information technology from the shop floor to the extended enterprise and always leave well trained and coached internal change agents. Optiprise is dedicated to working together with our clients in transferring powerful lean methodologies customized to each client. Whether our client is engaged in traditional mass production manufacturing or is a build-to-order mass customizer, we leverage years of experience in lean methods, value chain analysis, and information technologies to provide powerful lean solutions designed to deliver profound bottom line benefits. Optiprise is uniquely positioned to offer innovative ideas germinated through our associations with numerous leading edge lean research organizations. Jeffrey Liker, Ph.D., Principal of Optiprise, is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan where he advises students and conducts research on new frontiers in lean management. His publications on The Toyota Way (2004) and related books have been endorsed by Toyota as the best external translation of their philosophy and principles to the outside world. He is globally sought out as a keynote speaker and executive advisor on learning from the Toyota Way.