Corporate Profile - Packnomics, LLC
Address:
16915 SE Fisher Drive
Vancouver WA 98683
USA
Contact:
Kevin Howard, Consultant
Phone: 360-606-0235
Email: kevin.howard@packnomics.com
Website: www.packnomics.com
Kevin Howard is a well known leading expert in the field of packaging engineering. Kevin has been consulting since February 2006, working for companies ranging from start ups to Fortune 200 companies, and in products ranging from consumer electronics to large industrial electro-mechanical devices. He is one of fewer than 500 people in the world with both BS and MS degrees in packaging (both from Michigan State University). Kevin specialized in distribution packaging and testing in school and has applied this knowledge over the last two decades to generate some of the largest cost savings in packaging history. Over his 17 years of work at Hewlett-Packard, Kevin forged several new concepts on how best to combine the interests of packaging, product design, supply chain, procurement, customer assurance and testing into a unified approach to gaining the lowest possible landed costs with the highest quality necessary. Introduced at several conferences as a particularly innovative thinker, Kevin prides himself on his depth and breadth of packaging knowledge, supply chain logistics, material handling methodologies, and dynamics testing.
Testing expertise: Kevin focused on testing theory and methods during graduate school, where he was the teaching assistant for two years in the class on shock and vibration testing. He spent one summer interning for MTS Systems, which at that time was the largest manufacturer of such equipment. His first job out of school was with Whirlpool Corporation, where he helped start their first shock and vibration lab. He then became a consultant for about 1.5 years, which included a 7 month job of teaching at the first school of packaging in China, focused on distribution packaging and testing. While at HP, Kevin was instrumental in helping re-write both corporate and Divisonal test manuals. Modifying HP's testing led to lower failures in the field and lower packaging costs overall...an unusual combination.
Specialties:
Packaging design, materials, procurement, manufacturing, and testing. Material handling and supply chain expertise. Product design to dramatically reduce packaging, handling, storage and damage costs. Acute awareness of landed costs via zero-based pricing methodology. Particularly thoughtful of the environmental impact of design and material choices.
Industries:
Automotive
Electronics
Hardware
Industrial
Mail Order
Other
Retail Products
Transportation
Materials:
Corrugated Containers
Crates/Boxes
Cushioning Material
Film, Stretch
Pallets
Paperboard
Plastics, Rigid
Tapes
Processes:
Bulk Packaging
Services:
Corrosion Pkging
Cushioning, Design
Damage Control
Economics
Environment
Import/Export Pkging
Strategic Planning
Testing, Materials
Testing, Pkg Performance
Transportation
Warehousing
This member is available as an expert witness.
