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Daniel LuriaAffiliationResearch Director - Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC) BiographyDaniel Luria is Research Director at the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (MMTC), in Plymouth. One of the member centers of NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), since 1991 the MMTC has worked with more than 1,000 small and medium-sized Michigan manufacturers in the areas of benchmarking, quality and environmental management systems, cycle time reduction/lean manufacturing/lean office, cost estimation, and business planning. Luria directs the MMTC’s Performance Benchmarking Service (PBS). Since 1992, PBS has produced more than 10,000 customized benchmarking reports for nearly 4,500 manufacturers across North America. PBS also conducts foundation-sponsored policy research on manufacturing issues, and regularly briefs policy-makers on its findings. Recent projects include benchmarking Michigan manufacturers’ costs vis-à-vis offshore competitors, estimating costs and benefits of hybrid vehicle producer credits, and modeling the economic coherence of the upper Great Lakes region. Prior to joining the MMTC in 1984, Luria spent eight years as an industry analyst in the UAW Research Department in Detroit working on fuel economy and emissions regulation and employment forecasting, with bargaining assignments at Chrysler and Johnson Controls. An economist, Luria is a frequent author and commentator on U.S. manufacturing performance. He has co-authored three books; published articles in the Harvard Business Review, Challenge, Research Policy, and the International Review of Applied Economics; and been interviewed on NBC Nightly News and PBS’s Newshour and Morning Edition programs. Luria holds a BA from the University of Rochester, an MA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts. He and his family live in Brighton, Michigan. Categories: Advisory Board |