About
ProVision, LLC. is a privately held, custom compliance and engineering business located in Buffalo, New York. Since our start in 2003, we have helped small to mid-sized manufacturing companies discover where they are non-compliant and help them address and correct these issues. By doing so, we have helped these companies succeed in the global marketplace by providing customized quality, engineering, and regulatory solutions. We help ensure that our clients’ customer specifications are met by augmenting existing manufacturing capabilities with cobotic systems, automated inspection systems, and closed-loop engineering control solutions.
Our technological solutions can eliminate menial, repetitive, difficult, or dangerous tasks so that your employees can focus on more value-added (and safer) work. With decades of combined engineering experience in small to mid-sized companies, ProVision can help you automate manual operations or modernize existing equipment and our local presence provides unmatched quality of service and on-site support. We work side by side with our clients when implementing our engineering solutions and will even train your staff to ensure they know how to support your new technology.
Harrison W. Kelly III, Ph.D.
Founder and President
Harrison received a B.A. in Theoretical Statistics with a Minor in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, an M.S. in Applied and Mathematical Statistics from the Rochester Institute of Technology with honors, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Harrison has 30+ years leading organizational transformation in the medical device, food and beverage, and automotive industries. He has held executive level positions responsible for achieving organizational compliance with a broad spectrum of compulsory and voluntary standards including 21CFR820 (cGMP’s), ISO 13485, ISO 9001, FAR, DFAR, DOT, OSHA, and various other regulations and guidelines.
He has lead operational transformation in product management, manufacturing operations, new product design, market research, and portfolio management.
Harrison currently holds the title of Associate Professor of Practice, and is the current Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University at Buffalo in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level classes in Experimental Design, Quality Assurance, Six Sigma, Engineering Economics, and Senior Capstone.
He has published scientific and methodological papers in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to industrial process quality control, experimental design, and Six Sigma.
He is an original contributing member and author of the Six Sigma Research Institute, a certified Master Black Belt, and a certified ISO 13485 Lead Auditor.