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Consulting Interest Areas

Professor Zimmers’ expertise in the area of industrial systems has made him a highly sought out consultant by many manufacturing, government, and educational organizations. Industrial organizations to which he has served as a consultant include: Cook Technologies, Tobyhanna Army Depot, FLSmidth, Kraft Foods, Illinois Central Industries, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Hershey Foods, Mack Trucks, Steel Tube Institute of North America, Raytheon, Hughes Shipbuilding, and General Electric Company. This consulting involved manufacturing, strategic planning, enterprise systems and operations management, design of process control systems, optimization, corporate business system plans, and development of in-house educational programs. Consulting engagements with government organizations include the Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Labor, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development.