Mark L. Spearman, PhD

Founder and Author

Mark Spearman brings over forty years of experience optimizing production and service operations for over 80 companies including Baxter Healthcare, Delta Airlines, Intel, ABB and many others. He is the founder of Factory Physics, Inc. and co-author of two award-winning books, “Factory Physics” and “Factory Physics for Managers.”  He is also a member of the Technical Committee of the Project Production Institute and Director of Technical Solutions for Strategic Project Solutions.

Prior to that, Spearman was a tenured professor of industrial engineering and management sciences at Northwestern University, professor of industrial and systems engineering at Georgia Tech, and Department Head of industrial engineering and systems engineering at Texas A&M University. His work has over 10,000 citations on Google Scholar.