Ron specializes in maintenance, manufacturing performance leadership, and engaging the workforce, management. Ron is the author of Making Common Sense Common Practice, 5th ed.; of What Tool? When? A Management Guide, 2nd ed.; of Where Do We Start Our Improvement Program?; of Business Fables & Foibles;  of A Common  Sense Approach to Defect Elimination;  and of Our Transplant Journey: A Caregiver's Story, as well as some 70 journal articles.