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Biography & Areas of Expertise

Norm Bain is Lean Services Consultant with OEM, an international consulting company based in Western Canada and founder of NBI, a business optimization company. An Engineering Technologist, Norm is a highly experienced operations executive who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams to new levels of success in a variety of highly competitive industries. He has worked on projects to:

Develop sales and profitability strategies

Manage customer relationships

Develop products  · Design tooling

Design the layout to eliminate waste

Manage projects · Manage production

Lead teams

Coach and mentor  · Provide training and teambuilding

He has a diverse background, including work assignments in process automation and controls, IT, mining, pulp and paper, automotive, food processing, custom welding, engineered products, framing and construction.

He has led significant change in purchasing, quality, maintenance, production and engineering as supervisor, department manager, Plant Manager, Director of Operations over multiple plants, and Lead Consultant. As a graduate of the Leadership Development Program, he is a promoter of the Center for Creative Leadership.


Having worked at many levels of organizations, Norm is able to quickly relate to the issues facing people throughout the clients operation.

He has
benchmarked facilities in Canada, the USA and Mexico.

Norm is dedicated to helping his clients succeed, establishing and achieving
oorganizational goals while implementing step change.

Ask Norm about:

  • Your Business Success
  • Organizational Development
  • Supervisory Development
  • Quality Systems including ISO-9000, QS9000, ISO-14001
  • TQM
  • Project management
  • Kanban and Just in Time Systems
  • Vendor Certification
  • VMI
  • Constraints Management
  • Total Productive Maintenance
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • ERP and CMMS
  • 5S and Visual Management
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Lean Office
  • Error Proofing
  • Team building
  • Mentoring, Professional Development and Succession Planning
  • His golf game
  • Computers and web site design
  • Family and Travel experiences
  • The four hour work week
  • Music and Theatre
  • Tracing your family tree
  • Real Home Renos