Balanced Fulcrum Advisors, LLC
Executive Consulting Service to the Transmission and Drivetrain Industry
Executive Consulting Service to the Transmission and Drivetrain Industry
Balanced Fulcrum Advisors, LLC (BFA) capitalizes on the deep experience of its President and Principal Consultant, GREGORY L. HADLEY, to provide consulting and coaching support to organizations working in the global Transmission and Drivetrain sector. His background spans practically all ground vehicle vocations and transmission types. Greg’s 45+ year career of providing leadership, product planning, product engineering execution, and organizational capability growth can be applied to accelerate your firm’s engineering productivity growth and elevate the quality of product design released the first time through your engineering process.
Transmission and Drivetrain systems present a large number of requirements, interfaces and dependencies. Achieving the product design that properly considers these and other factors requires expert balance and trade-off skill throughout the engineering activity in order to yield a product that is successful in the market and supportive of the objectives of the business.
In addition to addressing the TECHNICAL RISK during product design, the engineering program must simultaneously factor in the SCHEDULE RISK and the COST RISK of the overall project. Blending these elements of total program risk management likewise requires experienced-based expertise to establish the proper weighting of these risk elements and successfully balance the project on a winning program fulcrum.
Leveraging the background and experience of Mr. Hadley can significantly elevate the quality of engineering decisions and decrease the time to perform this complex balancing task for your organization’s product projects. In addition, your team’s ongoing capability is improved through hands-on learning during live project execution with the coaching and technique exposure Mr. Hadley provides.
Experience Across Multiple Vocations & Applications
Mr. Hadley’s background includes transmission and driveline system engineering in practically all categories of ground vehicles.
While working across this wide range of vehicle applications, he has been involved with multiple transmission architectures, including manual transmissions, torque converter planetary automatics, hydrostatic / hydromechanical systems, CVTs / IVT’s, electric drives and hybrid systems using mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic sources of parallel power.
In addition, his background spans engineering development of All Wheel Drive and other driveline topics — all across global projects in North America, Europe and Asia.
Together with the technology breadth of Mr. Hadley’s background, blending balance and trade-off consideration driven by production volumes, time to market, Quality / Reliability / Durability imperatives, and costs are all factors he has successfully managed over the years and effectively coached others in doing the same.
Typical BFA Consulting Support Focus Areas
Leadership Support
Staff and Process Development Support
Program Execution Support
Provide advice and coaching to all levels of leadership dealing with initiatives associated with market opportunity assessment, product planning, new product development, production planning and launch, and continuous product improvement of quality, cost, reliability / durability, and other critical imperatives..
Facilitate assessment of staff capability and processes involved with engineering execution. Identify opportunities for improvement. Establish and lead initiatives to elevate engineering team performance through training and embedding best practices for quality and throughput of product design.
Consult and coach engineering, development and validation of new product and current product improvements. Plan and audit requirements preparation, engineering and design execution and review, virtual and physical validation and integration with manufacturing and supplier strategies.