VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL MEETING
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 2026
Topic: Lean & ERP
Tom will offer up his understanding of why Lean became so important, it’s true origin & intent plus why it’s NOT a “one trick pony”. As a seasoned Lean educator, trainer, facilitator, implementer… he will share examples of companies who needed more than Lean. The corollary message is that ERP has never been unimportant and why it needs to be in every discovery, assessment, business improvement and change management conversation.
Speaker: Tom Betchel
Tom’s long service provider career, post-manufacturing practitioner with GE, CGE, Mitel, Northern Telecom and Kaval Wireless Technologies, has focused on helping organizations help themselves across industry, healthcare, transportation & energy throughout North America, England, Puerto Rico and Brazil. His role is to introduce best practices and prepare & motivate people to implement change and improve the business environment and its performance….. regardless of what you might want to call the project, the initiative, the transformative goal.
Tom has worked with many southern Ontario companies including Accuride, Chicopee, Duomatic-Olsen, Emco, Cami, Ferranti-Packard/Rolls Royce, H.J. Heinz, Hammond Power Solutions, Jannock Steel, John Deere, Rockwell Automotive and Fortune 500 companies such as Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation),BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Deere & Co, Detroit Edison (DTE), GE, Intel, Kellogg, Massey-Ferguson (AGCO), Mars M&M, Samsonite, Siemens.
Tom has been a frequent CAPIC and APICS dinner meeting speaker, seminar and international conference presenter and was the founding chairperson and first president of the Ottawa Chapter. He was also honoured by APICS as the International Conference Chairperson in Toronto. Tom is a graduate Electrical Engineer and CFPIM in APICS.
Agenda:
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm (EST) - Networking
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EST)– Guest Speaker: Tom Betchel
8:00 pm - 8:30pm (EST) – Questions and Wrap
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, February 5, 2026
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