Paul Lovell
Solutions Engineer
With decades of manufacturing experience, Paul is passionate about using Ari to help clients solve their most pressing problems. He believes the variability conundrum can be solved with the correct tool, and that tool is Ari.
Paul is a lifelong tinkerer and problem-solver. As a young person, he was enamored of automobiles and studied mechanical engineering. He began his career as an intern for Toyota, running data acquisition equipment, dynamometers and road tests. Paul’s natural curiosity about engineering then led him to Western Container Corporation (WCC), where he was involved in an initiative to reduce the plastic content in Coca-Cola bottles. He ensured the redesigned tooling produced bottles that met quality standards, and helped design, lay out, and install several production lines. The resulting 6 mm of change in bottle design meant $60 million in saving s to Coca-Cola across the supply chain.
As a frontline supervisor at a new WCC plant, Paul worked as an engineer alongside operations managers so that he could better understand their challenges. He became a General Manager at the WCC plant in Benicia, CA, where he led the management team in meeting all budget obligations without increasing costs to customers.
Paul then began to explore operations management in depth as a Corporate Plant Engineer; this provided him an added measure of credibility and helped him build bridges between engineering and operations teams. Just before joining RNB, Paul was a Plant Manager at WCC in Houston, where he helped build new quality control systems.