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conference where I presented two papers. Shortly, after the confer-
ence, I got a letter inviting me to be the chairperson on the next flow
manufacturing conference. Thus, within a year, I had gone from being a
student of the technology to being invited as a chair at the conference.
This was a good indicator of the steepness of my learning curve on this
project. Shortly after, I was invited to co-chair another conference with
the CEO of our consulting firm and also invited to speak at several con-
ferences hosted by our consulting firm as I had used some innovative
techniques for optimizing the implementations. ...