About C.A. Huff & Associates, Industrial Engineering Firm

Organized in 1981, C.A. Huff and Associates provides practical, independent Industrial Engineering advice to our client companies. The practice is staffed with a group of highly qualified engineers averaging in excess of 20 years of design and implementation experience. We recognize that our continued success is closely tied to that of our clients which, in turn, is directly related to the quality of services which we provide.

Currently averaging over four assignments per client and based upon a firm commitment to client satisfaction, we have established continuing relationships with a select clientele of Southern California based manufacturing, service and technical organizations.

Charles A. Huff, P.E., is an Industrial Engineer experienced in facilities planning and operational performance improvement for under-performing and developing businesses.

Charlie is the Principal-Owner of C. A. Huff & Associates, a regional Industrial Engineering practice. Areas of specialty include facility planning & design, operations analysis & control and productivity improvement. Clients include NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ITT, Ameron, Avery Label, California Steel Industries, Tropitone Furniture and Callaway Golf.

Prior to establishing C.A. Huff & Associates in 1981, he consulted for the firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He possesses a total of twenty years of progressive engineering and operations management experience gained at General Dynamics, Fairchild Semiconductor and Cummins Engine Company.

Most recently, he has successfully developed, planned and conducted in-house educational courses of instruction pertinent to the justification and equipment specification for major capital aquisition projects. The objective of said courses is to improve the funding request preparation, presentation and execution skills of client personnel.

Charlie has prepared plans for the new construction, expansion, modernization, rearrangement and/or tenant improvement of plant facilities totaling 3.2 MM square feet for a variety of manufacturing, warehousing and support activities. He has administered a $10 MM plant capital equipment modernization program for a 450 machine tool, 2 MM square foot aerospace manufacturing facility. He has provided full technical direction for the turnaround reorganization of an electronic laminated manufacturer; during which he prepared and presented operational and financial analyses which served as the basis to avert bankruptcy. He formulated, developed and installed an employee gain sharing program which produced a 60% after tax profit improvement via improved capacity utilization and reduced resource consumption for a USWA organized steel producer.