Testimonials

"Having worked alongside John for almost twenty years, I witnessed at first hand his contribution to growing a Lean Manufacturing mindset at Lake Region Medical. John's brings a practical sensibility to the application of lean tools and systems, and his passion & enthusiasm for lean is infectious”.

Noel Hennessey,
Practical Lean Solutions
“Having worked alongside John on multiple continuous improvement activities and kaizen events at Lake Region Medical I have benefited from his knowledge, skill, and quiet professionalism in every aspect of delivering improvement programmes. He is equally at home in sharing his expertise with colleagues and undertaking practical improvement activities at the shop floor. John’s deep understanding of C.I. Methodologies, including TPS, 6 Sigma, and Kaizen, supported by a natural and effortless leadership style make him a highly effective C.I. leader. I would have no hesitation in recommending John to any company.”
Gary Badwen
Senior Manager, Toyota UK Limited

“John is a highly respected CI professional with >20 years' experience driving transformation change in both operations and maintenance functions. In 2009 John developed a close partnership with Toyota Deeside, Wales which transformed Lake Region Medical's Maintenance System and resulted in a 28% increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness. John subsequently introduced systems across the Lake Region Medical group to capture front line associates tacit knowledge of their equipment and establish employee responsibility for the maintenance of all key production assets”.

John O’ Dwyer
Manager Global Training Within Industry

It has been my pleasure and privilege to work with John since we first met back in April 2005 when I helped Lake Region Manufacturing with the introduction and ongoing sustainment of their TPM program.

At the time John was their Maintenance Manager but within a year he was promoted to TPM Champion for the site. This proved to be an inspired choice by the site leadership team, not only due to John’s engaging passion for the TPM enabling tool, but also with his in-depth technical and engineering knowledge.

With this solid foundation of TPM in place, the site went on to achieve the prestigious Shingo Award™ in 2012.

Of course, this was a team effort, but John was- and still is -very much a key influencer and team player.

John graduated with his Lean Enterprise Research Centre MSc in March 2010-Again it was my privilege to be asked by John to ‘sense check’ his chosen dissertation subject of TPM.

When it comes to TPM, John is very definitely in my top 5% of Facilitators’. 

Peter Willmott
Associate Partner
SAPartners……….

Asset Management is an integral component of Enterprise Excellence and John Bolger played an integral part in Integer (formerly Lake Region Medical) achieving the coveted Shingo Prize Accreditation. The first medical device organisation in Europe and the first organisation in Ireland to receive such a coveted honour. John’s knowledge and attention to detail in the field of Asset Management and in the application of Enterprise Excellence principles, culture & goals is the highlight of John’s many competencies. John’s knowledge sharing willingness and ability in relaying his vast experience to over 500 organisations that visited Integer over the last number of years is a testament to John’s contribution to Ireland having the highest number Shingo Prize accreditation’s in the world.  

Dermot O’Neill
Cobotics Skillnet Manager

"John and I have been companions together on the continuous improvement journey for more than twenty years across two different multinational medical device manufacturing organisations. During his career with Lake Region Medical John was a key player in what has been variously called World Class Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, AMIS, Shingo, etc. John's great strength was his practical application of the theory at the shop floor level with product builders, machine operators and maintainers. He championed the use of data collection and analysis in driving informed decisions from the bottom up, empowering teams to take ownership of their own continuous improvement journey. His legacy is leaving a cohort of front-line employees with the skills and confidence to identify and eliminate waste and to take on a significant share of equipment troubleshooting and maintenance, which helped deliver world class performance in equipment performance, quality and efficiency”. 

Donal Cosgrove
Formerly Senior Director of Manufacturing Engineering, Cardio & Vascular Division, Integer.
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