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Sheila Brennan

Program Manager, Product Lifecycle Strategies


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As Program Manager of IDC Manufacturing Insights' Product Lifecycle Strategies practice, Sheila Brennan examines business imperatives, best practices and emerging technologies in discrete manufacturing industries. Her research topics center on product lifecycle economics, and include innovation, design and engineering, service and warranty, social product development and product end of life.

Ms. Brennan blogs in the IDC Manufacturing Insights Community (http://idc-insights-community.com/manufacturing). Her Twitter handle is SheilaB_IDC.

Ms. Brennan has over 15 years of experience in process design, performance measurement, product development and quality management, with a strong focus on efficiency and manufacturing.

Ms. Brennan’s most recent experience involved launching and managing the Manufacturing Peer Forum at AMR Research, where she facilitating best practice sharing for F1000, manufacturing, supply chain, operations and IT executives. Prior to this she conducted dozens of benchmarking studies for AMR and PRTM’s benchmarking groups, measuring the impact of best practices and technology on operational performance to deliver prioritized recommendations for improvement to manufacturers.

Preceding this, Ms. Brennan was the Director of Quality and Programs at a specialty valve manufacturer, and spent several years providing management and process consulting to manufacturing and design organizations concerning their product development and quality management systems.

Ms. Brennan holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master of Science in Engineering Management, both from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.



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 Service Information Delivered as a Service Improves Quality, Reduces Costs
Sheila Brennan
August, 2010 - Doc # MI224562      Perspective
This IDC Manufacturing Insights Perspective looks at software as a service (SaaS)-based content delivery for conveying better and timelier service information to the field.
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