Regular readers of this blog will remember Petropoulos as one of 51 Climate Corp Fellows who trained with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last summer and interned with host companies to workon energy efficiency solutions.
As a pointed example of the latter, Boeing depended on suppliers to update work-in-progress on its newly introduced Exostar system, another ostensible efficiency tool.
It became a training ground for a number of Toyota and GM managers, who learned how to work with Americans under a manufacturing system that placed an emphasis on quality and efficiency.