Indiana Technology Legend to Retire
UPDATED — Following a courageous battle with illness, John Layden skydived one final time off of this mortal coil on March 26, 2020.
Requiescat in pace, old friend. Many — including everyone at MEK — will miss your sharp intellect and keen wit, but we’ll look forward to seeing you again.
Here are details of John’s remarkable life in the Indianapolis Star: https://legcy.co/2V2a6D4
John Morris has been appointed COO of Time Compression Strategies and the company has launched a new SaaS Cloud version of the remarkable technology as the company continues to move forward.
INDIANAPOLIS—Long-time CEO John Layden of Time Compression Strategies (TCS), a manufacturing, supply chain, business processes and technology firm, is retiring effective May 31, 2019. The search for a new CEO is ongoing to replace Layden, a nationally recognized supply chain expert who formerly also was a SAP executive prior to forming TCS.
When he retires at the end of May as CEO, Layden will end a three-decade-long technology collaboration with his brother, David Layden. David Layden and John served together as the primary intellectual drivers for a variety of technological innovations now actively deployed in major manufacturing operations in the United States and abroad.
In the past 15 years, the Layden brothers’ partnership effectively concepted, developed and patented the Ancelus database platform, which is recognized as a major breakthrough in data management that ranks in importance to the first introduction of the relational database a half century ago.
David Layden will continue in his role of CTO for the company.
Layden planned his formal retirement as part of an expansion strategy for Time Compression Strategies and its premier product, Ancelus. This strategic transition began earlier in 2018.
“I have had a great run with the culmination of truly establishing a new paradigm for database management and working with superb clients in manufacturing, supply chain and business process improvement,” said Layden. “It’s time for a new generation of TCS leadership to implement the transformational qualities of an Ancelus-powered age.”
A new focus of the expansion strategy is now on increased sales and marketing, given that critical technology goals for Ancelus applications and conversion tools have been reached. While continuing technology development of application development tools, TCS is now taking steps to expand both the TCS customer base and the solicitation of new investment partners to fund strategic development. John Morris, a long-time successful technology executive based in Ohio, joined the company in 2018 to help drive this positive transition.
Layden summed up the Ancelus development history: “The development curve for the new Ancelus technology took longer than we probably expected back a few years ago, but the outcomes – which include positively solving the growing list of problems in 21st century data management – certainly were worth the investment.”
“Ancelus is ready to meet and exceed the demands of big-data analytics, blockchain and IoT,” he continued. “As these new categories push beyond the capability of current technologies, Ancelus represents a proven platform that will quickly advance those companies who use it.”
Time Compression Strategies’ Ancelus data management system represents the first new theory of data management in a half century. Its patented system replaces predefined storage structures with an algorithmic process, delivering constant nanosecond performance at any size or complexity. It is the first ACID-compliant database to deliver extreme speed, ultimate complexity handling and massive scale in a single system.
Ancelus delivers speeds up to 7 orders of magnitude faster than relational systems, and up to 4 orders of magnitude faster than the self-proclaimed “fastest” database—without any of the drawbacks of traditional databases. One of the major benefits of the blinding speed of Ancelus is a dramatic reduction in electric power consumption in data centers.
Layden’s career spanned 55 years and covered the entire history of the ERP industry. It included 20 years as an engineer, executive and board member of three Fortune 200 companies. Prior to founding TCS, he served as VP of Supply Chain Management for SAP, VP of Supply Chain Management for Infor, and was President of Pritsker Corporation, an early innovator in discrete event simulation. He has authored over 40 articles and papers on manufacturing scheduling, supply chain operations, streaming analytics and system security. TCS and Layden’s technology achievements were a TechPoint MIRA award finalist.
During his five decade career, Layden authored more than 40 articles and papers on both the theory and practice of manufacturing and supply chain operations. He was described by one editor as one of the “founding fathers” of the Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) industry. He also authored the supply chain chapter in Maynard’s Industrial Engineers Handbook. Previously a frequent speaker on the subject of world class operating strategies, Layden has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences including the Automation Hall of Fame Awards. For several years Layden published the monthly Durable Goods Report.
As a software company CEO, Layden delivered to market the first real-time advanced planning and scheduling system; the first real-time SPC system; and the first real-time, fourth-normal-form database system. He is the originator of the Return on Capacity model for price optimization in manufacturing businesses.
As a key partner to Motorola, Layden helped developed the quality control concepts that ultimately became the Six Sigma Initiative. He was part of the team that introduced the same concepts to GE and the Cadillac Division of General Motors. (These initiatives contributed to the Malcom Baldrige awards won by Motorola and Cadillac, and to the highly publicized Six Sigma program at GE.) He introduced the Six Sigma concepts to software development and delivered the only application software release to meet these exacting quality standards. Layden holds three patents and is the only American to hold a Japanese patent in quality control.
Layden holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Executive Program). He has served as a guest lecturer in the MBA programs of Villanova University, Columbia University, New York University, Ball State University, and others.
A retirement party is scheduled for May 3 in Indianapolis. RSVP here: https://www.greenvelope.com/event/JohnLaydenRetirement
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About Time Compression Strategies and Ancelus
- Celebrating more than three decades of real-time innovation – 1983-2019
- First in-memory DB (tables in memory) – 1986
- First patent for in-memory DB (columnar/graph db) – 1993
- First patent for streaming analytics -1993
- First patents for Algorithmic Database (hybrid memory/disk) – 2010, 2011
- RT3: First real-time integration of material, labor, resource, quality tracking – 2010.
- A3: First real-time big data analytics system – 1 million statistical ops per second – 2013
- TQL: Threaded query language – the first real-time, visual query development tool. – 2015
More than 30,000 systems deployed with the world’s largest companies (more than 1,200 customers).