History of Blackburn Global

Founded in late 1978 as Performance Planners (Name Changed to Blackburn Global in 1997), due to necessary US economic change the company was founded on one simple principle! Give the customer more than they expect, in quality products, services, and cost. 

Byron Blackburn set this principle in Place and it carries through the many chapters of our history. Always starving to find the best products and services to offer to clients means we spend a major share of our resources on constant improvement in products and processes to always be today's answer to tomorrow's problems.    

Current Management Structure Of Blackburn

Today Blackburn is Female Minority Owner and controlled.

  • Bonita L. Lack-Blackburn is the Core Owner

    Byron W. Blackburn - Co-Owner.

  • Teresa Maria Stanton-Hanson,  is the Core Managing Partner

  • Steve Hanson Managing Operations Officer

  • Yuri Pilipenko Captive Senior Partner day to day operations and customer interface duties.

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Eclectic Consortium Structure of Contributing Vendors & Partners.

  • Over the years the global influence and interaction of Blackburn Global have solidified a comprehensive association with the world's most innovative and future thinking companies or individuals. 
  • Blackburn Global has formed with these World Class associations that combine Agreements, Partnerships, or arrangements to represent, Integrate, and offer these stellar offerings to our customers.

Our Key Partner.

  • Over the last twenty years the interaction of Blackburn Global with OLSOM or their work with other Vendors through out the automotive and heavy manufacturing from the Fortune 50 Big 3 of Detroit through European and Asian manufactures.

History:

•2009 – company founded as a System Integrator of MES solutions for Automotive industry
•2010 – birth of AGW IP product – integration platform for robust real time complex systems
•2010 – birth of AGW MES product – MES software for discrete manufacturing
•2012 – birth of AGW WMS product – Warehouse Management System for manufacturing and logistics facilities
•2013 – 2014 – extension of OLSOM services to Food Processing, Chemicals and Raw Materials industries
•2015 – birth of AGW Production Management – software focused on performance visualization and production metrics
•2015 – 2016 – extension of OLSOM services to Aerospace industry and Automotive OEM’s
•2017 – 2019 – accent on instant visualization of manufacturing KPI's, global enterprise KPI’s
•2018 – foundation of OLSOM affiliate in Poland
•2020 – 2021 – redesign of AGW WMS module, extension to HVAC and Electronics assembly

Capabilities:

•Team of 40+ highly skilled professionals
•R&D department
•Service Delivery department
•More than a decade of continues development and implementation of product suite for manufacturing IT
•Product implemented at 50+ manufacturing facilities around the globe
•Direct personalized 24/7 support of 30+ factories around the globe
•120+ production lines and cells running with our products
•Serve businesses of various industries and scales
•Our clients vary from SME of 50 employees through global corporate enties with dozens to thousands employees