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James O'Brien
Industrial Operations & Quality Engineer
Independent industrial engineer focused on warehouse cycle counting, defect tracking, and the unglamorous mechanics of inventory accuracy.
James worked twenty years inside distribution-center operations and quality engineering before going independent in 2021. His consulting practice concentrates on the parts of inventory and quality work that nobody wants to lead the meeting about — cycle-count accuracy, ABC stratification, defect-tracking workflow design, and the perpetual question of when a clipboard tally is the right tool.
He is mildly suspicious of any system that requires a six-month rollout to track something that used to be tracked with a click counter and is unapologetic about it.
Credentials
- Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- 20 years in industrial operations
Areas of focus
- Cycle counting & inventory accuracy
- Quality engineering
- Defect-tracking workflow
Writes in
EN
Articles by James O'Brien
- How Digital Inventory Counters Are Transforming Warehouse Stock Management From clipboard tallies to browser-based counting — why warehouses are switching to digital inventory tools for cycle counts and stock takes Inventory & Warehousing · May 4, 2026
- Using Digital Tally Counters for Quality Control and Defect Tracking How QA teams and production lines use browser-based counters for inspection tallies, defect rates, and first-pass yield calculations Quality Control · May 4, 2026
