WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LAB

Join us for a focused 2-hour Lunch & Learn on Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), where you’ll discover how to maximize equipment uptime, reduce breakdowns, and empower operators through proactive maintenance strategies.

This session will break down practical TPM pillars and real-world applications you can immediately implement to improve efficiency, reliability, and overall operational performance.

About the Presenter:

Josh Treadwell is a project and operations management professional with deep experience in manufacturing and continuous improvement. He has led lean initiatives, process improvements, and large cross-functional teams across both public and private sectors.

With a master’s degree in Technology Management and multiple Lean Six Sigma certifications, Josh specializes in helping organizations streamline operations and drive sustainable growth.

A word from Dr. Hersey

This presentation will be a breakdown of manufacturing international supply chain points of vulnerability. While we target specific supply chains for our customers, this presentation will emphasize general trends and sterilized cases to enable a broader audience value. A case study that compliments this discussion is located on our website (https://ferndon.com/global-risk).

Within this time, we will show you how the “sausage” is made: how we break down a supply chain, what considerations are emphasized or prioritized, and how data points from a breadth of perspectives are integrated to produce predictive analytics and a more resilient understanding of geopolitical impacts to your business.

You will come out with not only a better understanding of what on earth (literally!) is going on that affects your supply chain, but you’ll also have some tips and tricks to do basic analytics on your own. And, if keeping track of this world of change requires more bandwidth than you can allocate, you now know us, where we are, how we work, and what we can do.

We encourage questions in advance to help target our focus.

What are your greatest concerns or frustrations? Are there any specific materials that are of increasing concern?  Feel free to submit questions in the registration form, or send them directly to team@ferndon.com (in the subject line: Questions for Lehnen Industrial Services Presentation, September 17, 2026).  We will try to integrate questions up until 17 September, but questions/requests sent in prior to 7 September will help shape the presentation and be prioritized.

Dr. Dawn Hersey, Ph.D., is the Founder and CEO of Ferndon Consulting, where she helps executives strengthen organizational resiliency through actionable fusion intelligence, geopolitical analysis, and cross-functional risk management. She has over two decades of experience integrating military service, intelligence, education, analytics, leadership, and international development. This experience and her ability to communicate the “who, what, when, where, and why” to stakeholders so that they can anticipate complex threats, improve decision-making, and build resilient organizations capable of adapting to rapidly changing environments. Her recent work focuses on intentional nuanced understanding within the intersection of supply chain resilience, critical infrastructure protection, cybersecurity, international culture, emerging technologies, and geopolitical change. This unique balance of expertise empowers government and industry leaders to transform uncertainty into strategic advantage through Ferndon’s Intelligence as a Service (IaaS) approach.

Join us for an interactive session with a quality management leadership expert as we explore the upcoming 2026 ISO 9001 revision and other key quality management topics.

The discussion will include internal audits, root cause analysis, corrective actions, customer complaints, document control, and practical approaches to addressing common quality system challenges. While the primary focus will be on ISO 9001, questions and discussions related to other management system standards, including AS9100, ISO 13485, and ISO 14001, are welcome.