Fortune Magazine Names Englewood CEO a Hero of U.S. Manufacturing; JCIT's John Costanza Honored Alongside 5 Other U.S. Innovators.Business Editors ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000 John Costanza, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of JCIT JCIT Journal of Cases on Information Technology JCIT Joint Combat Information Terminal JCIT Joint Communications Interface Terminal JCIT Joint Commanders Information Terminal of Englewood, Colorado, has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of 6 Heroes of U.S. Manufacturing in the publications' March 20th issue. Costanza was selected for his development of Demand Flow(R) Technology (DFT DFT - discrete Fourier transform ), a mathematically based manufacturing practice that revolutionized the worldwide manufacturing industry by saving companies more than $4.7 billion. Fortune magazine reports Costanza "among the men and women who have helped U.S. manufacturing return to world preeminence... Costanza is the father of Flow(R) Manufacturing, a concept that stands conventional manufacturing on its ear." Costanza is CEO and founder of JCIT, based in Englewood, Colorado. Known as The Demand Flow(R) Company, JCIT serves the manufacturing industry as an educator and Technology Transfer Center for the Flow(R) Manufacturing industry Costanza created. The JCIT client list boasts major U.S. and European manufacturers that include American Standard, John Deere, AT&T, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Johnson and Johnson, Master Lock, PepsiCo, Texas Instruments, Trane, Whirlpool and Xerox, to name a few. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, 51-year-old Costanza graduated from Colorado Southern University with a degree in applied mathematics and physics. After years at Johnson and Johnson and Hewlett-Packard, Costanza has become reknown in manufacturing, product design, materials management, and software development. In the early 80's Costanza's expertise was called upon to help figure out how U.S. industry could survive the Japanese manufacturing assault. After extensive first-hand studies of global manufacturing, Costanza decided there was a better way. His revolutionary DFT manufacturing was established on a mathematical foundation, which enables companies to continuously change products and volumes based upon daily customer demand. His concept eliminates the scheduling associated with all other forms of manufacturing and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems. Costanza started JCIT with his wife, Linda, in the basement of their home in 1984. An advocate of hands-on learning, Costanza developed a four-day course on Demand Flow(R) Technology that is learned in a lab factory. In the early years, Costanza and his wife would load the lab onto a van and drive down to, say, Texas Instruments in Austin, to teach the course. Today, JCIT's three-story showplace headquarters stands in the Denver Tech Center, complete with classrooms, lab factories and executive offices. Manufacturing managers from around the world attend classes at the building as students of the Demand Flow(R) Technology Costanza developed. To date, JCIT has trained over 72,000 manufacturing professionals in over 51 countries. Costanza was awarded the Odyssey of the Mind Odyssey of the Mind often called OM,is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten though college. Team members work together at length to solve a predefined problem (the Long Term problem); and present their solution to the problem at a Creativity Award; nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly called the Nobel Prize in Economics, is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. , featured on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. World News Tonight; and on April 28th, 2000, will be honored with the Southern Colorado Alumni Achievement Award. -- Former recipients of the Odyssey of the Mind Creativity Award include Mr. Walt Disney; Dr. Paul B. MacCready (engineer of the century); Chuck Jones (creative animator of Bugs Bunny); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), (NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. ); and Jerome Lemelson (holder of the most American patents issued in the history of the United States “American history” redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. The United States of America is located in the middle of the North American continent, with Canada to the north and the United Mexican States to the south. ). |
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