About Us

Robert F. Schwarz is the Principal of Focus Consulting. He founded Focus Consulting in 1998 after more than 20 years of process improvement, product development, cost reduction, lean manufacturing and customer service improvement projects in line management responsibilities.

The last 12 years Bob has been involved in many Value Enhancement projects, in roles of external and internal consultant. He learned and delivered Value-Stream, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Toyota Production System, and Balanced Score Card principles by working with various consulting houses, including the Big 5 as well as specialty consulting firms, in executing value enhancement projects.

He has worked for a variety of manufacturing companies in functional leadership roles: a major world-wide packaging machinery and materials manufacturer, as Director of Operations, a leading world-wide electrical heating element, equipment and systems manufacturer, as Director of Engineering, a leading manufacturer of food, beverage and pharmaceutical process equipment, as VP of Operations, a leading world-wide packaging machinery manufacturer, as Director of Filler Division, a major world-wide packaging machinery manufacturer, as Manager of Engineering, and a world-wide manufacturer of chemical specialty products.

Bob holds 2 US patents, has published several articles in trade magazines related to beverage and brewing packaging, and has received awards for best new products.

Bob is a member of the American Association of Professional Consultants.

Bob holds a Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Nebraska. His specialization was Quantum and Statistical Mechanics. His dissertation work was on the electro-optic properties of silicon conducted in the Electrical Engineering department.