About the Author

Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher, and a guest researcher at the Technical University Dortmund. He was formerly an associate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart and at the Industrial Technology Institute in Ann Arbor. He began his career in the manufacturing division of Thyssen AG. Mike’s work has brought him to numerous companies and hundreds of factories, where he collaborates with people to test ideas and share lessons learned. He splits his time between Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Cologne, Germany.

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