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Rolling With The Changes
70-year-old company transforms itself
from success in the old economy
to success in the new.
Steve Raphael
Special to the Jewish News
W
hen the steel and rubber
of the old manufacturing
economy gave way to the
new world of software applications
in the early 1990s, DataNet Quality
Systems was ready. In fact, the 70-year-
old Southfield company was more than
ready; it was waiting. Reinvention was
champing at the bit.
That's because then-company chair-
man and president Hugh Greenberg saw
the day coming and, in the early 1990s,
began investing millions of dollars
in software. The company, which had
made precision tools for manufacturing
and served as a proud combatant in the
Arsenal of Democracy during World
War II, became a company for the 21st
century, specializing in statistical pro-
cess control (SPC).
"It's a software business now," said
Ned Greenberg, 50, Hugh's son, a lawyer
who left the U.S. Department of Justice
in 1996 to return home to shepherd
the family business as it changed its
paradigm. Greenberg runs the company
today as president but consults daily
with his father, who's enjoying semi-
retirement. "It's an honor to work with
my father."
SPC is used in manufacturing as a
means of keeping an eye on the produc-
tion line to ensure products are defect-
free. Keeping products defect-free
didn't used to be so easy. Monitoring
an assembly line in the old days meant
watching it closely, writing observations
down with paper and pencil. Once a
problem was spotted it was too late to
fix the broken products.
Ned Greenberg is now leading
DataNet Quality Systems through
the new economy.
Software today makes SPC proactive.
A manufacturer can tell almost instant-
ly the quality of the product being
churned out and can stop production
immediately to correct the problem.
"We monitor a process without human
intervention:' Ned Greenberg said.
DataNet, started in 1940 as Detroit
Gauge & Tool Co. (DGT), then was
a small tooling operation. Hugh
Greenberg's father-in-law, Nathan
Kaplan, bought the company one
year later. After Kaplan's death, Hugh
Greenberg, then 31 and already the
owner of a lead smelting business, took
the helm in 1961.
Hugh Greenberg created the Detroit
Gauge Group by buying and investing
in different, related companies, Ned
Greenberg said."Although DGT began
by making precision gauges for the
war effort, including rifles and other
weapons, over the years its emphasis
changed to airplane engine tooling."
Then along comes the 1980s and with
Community Involvement
aniel Greenberg (director of
major gifts at Federation)
is not the only Greenberg
deeply involved in the Jewish com-
munity. Hugh Greenberg applied his
vision for the Jewish community as
president of the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit in the
mid-1970s. Ned Greenberg added his
father was "instrumental" in helping
to build the new JCC campus in the
then-faraway land of West Bloomfield.
In 2000, Hugh and his wife,
Carolyn, won the Butzel Award, the
Jewish community's top leadership
D
award. Other contributions include
sitting on the Federation board and
as first international chairman of the
Maccabi Youth Games.
Carolyn won the Sylvia Simon
Greenberg Award for young lead-
ership in Federation's Women's
Department, was vice president of
Jewish Family Services and was the
first female officer of Sinai Hospital
in Detroit.
Ned also sat on the JCC board
and has been board chair of
Gleaners Community Food Bank of
Southeastern Michigan.