Shanfieldsokieyers China Shop going out of business sale replacement dinnerware silverware crystal brand new NEVER USEDKOSHER TERFORD aysTALtipT055% urines 60% off Swarovski jewellery & gifts up 10 50%0FF selected jewellery-70% no tax* cash only 188 OUELLETTE WINDSOR sun-fri 10-5:30 mernelnick@sympaticosca 519-2536098 TUNNEL TOKEN WITH PURCHASE FREE PARKING CITY GARAGE rjsgrille.com RESTAURA On 7 Days Lunch & Dinner Sun-Thu ?lam-lOpm Fri & Sat 11 am4 prn Chock out our NEW Lunch Menu 20% OFF ANY SPECIALTY PIZZA i CHOOSE FROM ROUND, DEEP DISH, AND THIN CRUST 12 VARIETIES TO CHOOCE FROM Dine-In Only BEST SALMON IN TOWN! IN CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER COUPON EXPIRES 9/29/11 EXPIRES 9/29/11 32769 Northwestern Hwy. 248-737-9600 Wishing our Customers a very happy and healthy new year! I DWY ER I A"' SON S (248) 624-0400 Volvosales@dwyerandsons.com www.dwyerandsons.com 90 September 22 • 2011 IN VOLVO On Maple Rd. West of Haggerty 1/2 Mile E. of M-5, 4 Miles N. of 1-96 OPEN SATURDAYS business & •rofessional 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.