INSTITUTIONAL CREED & GOVERNANCE

About The Chamber

THE FOUNDATIONAL CREED

“We founded COPEX on a singular operational truth: organizations produce the behaviors their systems are designed to produce. Most companies do not suffer from a lack of talent—they suffer from an accidental operating architecture.”

— THE FOUNDING PRACTITIONERS // COPEX SECRETARIAT
ETHOS 01

Zero Tool Theater

We reject cosmetic checklist 5S, disconnected Kaizen events, and superficial vanity metrics.

ETHOS 02

Absolute Systemic Integration

Connecting 60-minute shift pacemaker execution directly to executive EBITDA targets.

ETHOS 03

Permanent Variance Elimination

Sustainable OEE gains, statistical process capability (Cp/Cpk), and margin predictability.

THE GOVERNING ARCHITECTURAL EQUATION

Floor-Level Experience × Systems Thinking × Digital Architecture = Sustainable Operational Performance

No single element is sufficient in isolation. Real operating stability requires front-line respect, engineering rigor, and modern digital governance working as a single fabric.

INSTITUTIONAL PEDIGREE

The Founding Practitioners

System Architect

Tom Dunn

Senior Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt • Architect of MyGemba
45+ YRS GEMBA

Architect and creator of the MyGemba OpEx Management System. Tom built the entire software architecture based on over 45 years of continuous improvement, shopfloor turnarounds, and plant leadership across global manufacturing corporations.

Having guided dozens of facilities through critical transformations, Tom codified floor-level discipline, hourly pacing, and tiered accountability into software that replaces static spreadsheets and slide decks with a living, repeatable operational engine.

“You cannot paste Lean tools over an unmanaged operating structure. I built MyGemba to codify 45 years of floor discipline into a living, repeatable management system.”
CORE DOMAIN:MyGemba Platform Architecture & Shopfloor Turnarounds
COPEX STANDARDS COUNCILSYSTEM ARCHITECT
Continuous Improvement

Victor Pazmiño

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt • Operational Systems Practitioner
11 YRS WITH TOM DUNN

With 11 years of practical continuous improvement and operational excellence experience working directly alongside Tom Dunn, Victor focuses on deploying operating cadences, frontline problem-solving systems, and digital execution tools on the plant floor.

Working side-by-side with Tom, Victor bridges shopfloor reality and digital execution—training operations teams, establishing standard work architectures, and eliminating variance to make plant performance predictable and resilient.

“Operational excellence is not an event—it is a daily operating discipline. For over a decade working alongside Tom, our focus has been eliminating variance and making performance predictable.”
CORE DOMAIN:Operating Cadence Deployment, Frontline Training & Software Implementation
COPEX ARCHITECTURAL SECRETARIATOPERATIONAL PRACTITIONER

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