Problem solving services for Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Business Processes, and Teams
define: inScythe
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Understand your products, your engineering problems, and your business like never before
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Use the right data to drive innovation and decisions (not just the data that is easy to collect)
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Cut away the waste
Expert consulting services backed by 30+ years of experience across highly regulated and competitive industries
Our Driving Purpose
Our Vision
No problem is too hard to solve. With your experts and our innovative methods anything is possible except violating physics.
Our Commitment
We will help you understand your business and products better, solve your hardest problems, and eliminate waste.
Our Values
We prioritize integrity, collaboration, and innovation in every project. No project or business is too large or too small
What We Do For You
We work directly with teams and leaders to:
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Solve design, engineering, process, and production problems
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Optimize product designs and manufacturing processes
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Enhance project management processes to drive faster time to market
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Repair broken organizational and team dynamics
​Our process includes:
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Facilitating root cause analysis and improvement workshops
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Helping you understand what data you need to collect; it is often not the data you are collecting now
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Designing powerful experiments and analyzing data to drive innovation and rapid decision-making
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Training engineers and managers in structured problem-solving for future problems (Lean, Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma)
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Guiding time-to-market reductions for new products with project management innovations
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Providing direct, hands-on support for projects when needed
About inScythe
Principle: John Willis
I work with engineering, design, and manufacturing teams to solve the toughest problems that slow down product development, drive up costs, or strain teams. Whether it’s a breakdown in a process, a design stuck in iteration loops, inability to transfer design into manufacturing or a project veering off track—I bring structure, clarity, innovation, and decades of hands-on experience to help you get unstuck—and move forward with confidence.
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I am a former Navy Nuclear Engineer, have a B.S. Physics from Cal Poly, over 30 years of cross-industry experience (regulated class II medical devices, electronics, sporting good) and 15 issued patents as a Lean/Six Sigma Blackbelt and Master Blackbelt. I’ve led multi-million dollar R&D projects, led problem-solving efforts in high-stakes environments where results matter and helped businesses solve long-term problems that the experts had deemed impossible to solve. Whether in the lab, on the line, or in the boardroom, I will help your people deliver better outcomes—faster.
Services we offer:
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Engineering consulting
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Design engineering guidance for optimized performance and cost
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Optimization of design transfer, solving of transition problems​
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Manufacturing and assembly problem solving - stabilization, yield, scrap, waste, cost
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Project management optimization - reducing project timelines, accuracy of launch projections
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Hands on leadership of initiatives if internal leaders not available
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Training of engineers and managers in decision making and engineering problem solving tools including Lean/Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, and Advanced DoE
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Management consulting​
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Alignment of goals and metrics to drive business performance​
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Development of a cohesive strategy
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Fixing broken teams
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