Paul Jewell
Owner And CEO at Applied Jidoka ltd.
Mold, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Jewell is an experienced manufacturing leader and founder who transitioned after 17 years at Toyota into running Applied Jidoka, where he consults and delivers Toyota Production System and Toyota Way training online. He brings a decade-plus track record in operational management, production control, and continuous improvement across engine manufacturing and plant leadership roles, including General Manager positions at Toyota Motor Europe and Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK. Paul combines deep technical grounding from a BSc in Materials Science with hands-on expertise in 5S, Jidoka, and quality systems to translate shop-floor practices into measurable efficiency gains. Unusually for a manufacturing executive, he has contributed to open-source embedded systems (LibrePilot), showing a practical interest in IoT and ground control software that complements his process-focused consultancy. Based in Mold, Wales, he documents three decades of manufacturing learning to help organisations evolve toward higher efficiency and resilient operations.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Materials science and engineering, BSc, Materials science and engineering at Brunel University London
Github Skills (9)
fpc10
embedded10
drones10
fvp10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
makefile9
qt8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
librepilot/LibrePilot
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
This is the GitHub mirror for the LibrePilot source code. The main development is taking place at https://bitbucket.org/librepilot
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 13 PRs, 29 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on refactoring and updating existing code within the LibrePilot project. Their work included moving and updating configuration files, modifying code comments to remove outdated references, and fixing or improving the build process for the ground control station (GCS) application. Additionally, they addressed various issues such as updating copyright notices and fixing wiki links. The commits suggest a focus on the ground control system for drone operation.
placeopenpilotlibrepilotphpfpv
paul-jewell/api-gentoo-org
Oct 2017 - Aug 2023
Seed data for api.gentoo.org (this is where you create pull requests for new overlays!)
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
apigentoooverlaysseedpull-requests
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