Speaker:

Mr. Roger J. Fabian, FASM ASM President (2008-2009)

Topic:
Translating the Language of Success: Managing a Multi-Plant Metal Processing Operation Worldwide

Abstract:

Bodycote is a multi-national company comprised of 300 plants in 30 countries, with 11,000 employees who speak 15 different languages.  As you can imagine, running an organization of this size and complexity requires a realistic and proven understanding of what works – and what doesn’t.  

We will look at the financial controls necessary to efficiently and successfully run a multi-plant business worldwide, as well as how capital is used in the most efficient way to provide the greatest return on capital invested and the greatest return to shareholders.  

In addition, we will discuss the challenges of varying quality systems, computer systems (operational and accounting), risk management, branding, technology transfer, purchasing power and -- most importantly -- finding, training and motivating people. 

Through this presentation, you’ll see Bodycote from the perspective that a potential investor has of us: as a company dedicated to serving the metal processing industry.  The most meaningful perspective in the entire mix comes from our customer, who dictates day-to-day plant behavior and whose global economic clout shapes the Bodycote Strategic Plan.

Bio:

Mr. Fabian is the Eastern Region Sales Manager, Bodycote Thermal
Processing, Berlin, Conn.

Fabian received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1962, and his MBA from RPI
in 1980. He began his career with Lindberg Corp. in June 1962 as plant
metallurgist at Lindberg’s Boston Div.

He transferred to the Berlin Division in 1964 and was named chief metallurgist and quality control manager. He was promoted to division manager at Berlin in 1979. In 1985, Fabian was named vice president of Lindberg Heat Treating Co., and in 1992, manager of the Lindberg Heat
Treating Divisions in Berlin and Waterbury, Conn.

When Lindberg was purchased by Bodycote Thermal Processing in January 2001, Fabian was named Eastern Region Sales Manager.

A Past President of the ASM Heat Treating Society (HTS) and the Metal Treating
Institute (MTI), Fabian was named a Fellow of ASM in 1992. He is a past chairman of
the ASM Technical Programming Board and coined the name “Materials Solutions” for
ASM’s annual technical event held through the 1990s. He has also served as chairman of
the HTS Immediate Needs Committee, the ASM Hartford Chapter, the ASM Heat Treat
Council, and the MTI Atlantic Coast Chapter.

He has participated in local chapter technical sessions and national ASM and HTS
conferences, organizing sessions and presenting papers on vacuum heat treating, vacuum
brazing, and other areas of heat treating and metal joining. Fabian currently is a Directorat-
Large Industrial Liaison for the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE).