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Article: KEN LEWIS
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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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President and CEO
Haushahn Systems & Engineers Inc.
Grand Rapids
PERSONAL: After earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Ken Lewis worked 15 years for Clark Equipment Co. He left Clark to start up a small distributorship of automated systems in Cincinnati. In his new job, Lewis discovered he liked to make a major impact in a small company - so when C. Haushahn GmbH of Germany approached him to start a subsidiary in 1988, he accepted.
COMPANY PROFILE: At first, Haushahn supplied automated material handling systems (including robots) in North America. Then Lewis expanded to add warehouse-management systems, which use bar coding, ...