Books By Penny W. Cloft, Michael N. Kennedy, Brian M. Kennedy - Author

Penny W. Cloft  Penny worked at Pratt & Whitney for 35 years. She spent most of that time in Engineering as a design and systems engineer. In the early 90’s she was part of the on site engineering team at P&W’s North Haven airfoil facility supporting the lean transformation to just in time manufacturing. This transformation is described as the "Acid Test" for large companies with complex products in Jim Womack’s book Lean Thinking.?That experience had a profound affect on Penny and led her to seek positions where she could apply her new lean learning. Penny successfully led several groups in both Operations and Engineering to reduce their process lead times and improve quality output and customer satisfaction. She joined the Systems Engineering Group in 2005 and became involved in an effort to improve the commercial jet engine product development process. Michael Kennedy’s books influenced Penny’s process improvement approach. Her team of engineering and operations experts transformed P&W’s development pr