Prof Peter Hines
Visiting Professor
Biography
Professor Peter Hines is a world-renowned academic, practitioner, Lean thought leader, multiple Shingo Award-winning author, and Senior Certified Shingo Facilitator. Peter was Co-founder and Co-director of Cardiff University's Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC), and co-director of the world's first Lean Masters programme at Cardiff University. Additionally, Peter was Chairman and Co-Founder of S A Partners (www.sapartners.com), a leading global lean excellence consultancy firm and licensed Shingo Institute affiliate (shingo.org). He is now a Visiting Professor at the SETU School of Business, and is specifically working with Darrin Taylor and Aidan Walsh, Co-Leads of the Academy of Lean Enterprise Excellence, to help create and sustain world class performance in Irish organisations. The focus is on disseminating the latest thinking in Lean through the School of Business Lean Programme Portfolio, other short courses, and DBA and PhD programmes.
Course Co-ordinator for MBA in Supply Chain Management, Cardiff Business School, 1991 - 1997
Course Deliverer: MSc Lean Operations, Cardiff Business School, 2000 - 2012
Research Fellowship
Senior Research Fellowship, International Institute for Economic Studies (Toyota), Tokyo, October - December, 1994
Visiting Research Scholarship, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, September - November, 1999
Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia, 2006 - present
Principal Research Investigator
Welsh Automotive Listing, Welsh Development Agency, 1992 (£10,000)
Welsh Automotive Supplier Association Programme, Welsh Development Agency, 1993 -1994 (with Daniel Jones, £15,000)
South Wales Innovation in Material Management Programme, DTI, 1992 -1995 (£25,000)
VALUE Materials Management Programme, European Union, 1993 -1995 (£90,000)
Supply Chain Development Programme, Corporate Sponsors, 1992 - 1997 (with Daniel Jones, David Jessop & Richard Lamming [Bath University], £800,000)
Lean Enterprise Processing Programme, Innovative Manufacturing Initiative, EPSRC, 1997-1999 (with Dan Jones £750,000)
Value Stream Mapping Programme, Various Companies, 1996 (£216,000)
Lean Research Network, Various Companies, 1998 (£390,000)
Three Day Car, Innovative Manufacturing Initiative, EPSRC & Various Companies, 1999 - 2001 (with Malcolm Harbour [ICDP], Andrew Graves [Bath University], £1,350,000)
Career February 1985 - September 1985: Stock Controller, Madison Cycles, London, England
September 1985 - December 1988: Purchasing Manager, Madison Cycles, London, England
December 1988 - March 1991: Supply Chain Manager, Spong Housewares, Crumlin, Wales
March 1991 - February 1992: Freelance Consultant, Pontypool, Wales
March 1992 - April 1994: Co-ordinator, Materials Management Unit, Cardiff Business
School, Wales
April 1994 - February 1997: Deputy Director, Lean Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff
Business School, Wales
March 1997 - September 1999: Professor of Supply Chain Management, Co-Director, Lean
Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff Business School, Wales
October 1999 - April 2008: Professor of Supply Chain Management, Director, LERC
August 2004 - January 2008: PI & Director, Cardiff University IMRC
June 2007- January 2014: Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia
April 2008 - April 2010: Professor of Supply Chain Management, Chairman, LERC
May 2010 - January 2012: Associate, LERC
May 2010 - present: Chairman, S A Partners
January 2015 - present: Visiting Professor, Waterford Institute of Technology Business School, Ireland
Academic Qualifications & Awards
BA (MA), Cambridge University, June 1984 (William Vaughan Lewis Prize)
MBA, Cardiff Business School, July 1992 (Alexander Duckhams Memorial Trophy)
PhD, Cardiff Business School, September 1995 (European Federation of Quality Management Bronze Plate)
The European Benchmarking Best Practice Benchmarking Award 1998 Academic Category
Shingo Prize for Staying Lean book, 2009
Shingo Prize for Creating a Lean & Green Business System book, 2014