Don Fitchett founded the activity based costing system called "True Downtime Cost" (TDC) , author "True Downtime Cost Analysis - 2nd Edition" and speaks at conventions on the topic and is president of BIN. Don is also author of many articles in trade magazines like Chemical Engineering Magazine, Facilities Engineering Journal, Industrial Engineering Magazine and many more.

Don has been in the industrial training sector for over two decades, setting up training programs around the world, and still conducts some of the training seminars to this day. He specializes in Allen Bradley PLCs.

Don has managed Business Industrial Network since September 1995 – Present (18+ years). He has been training industrial engineers and manufacturing maintenance for 20+ years. When asked, Don proudly states his hands-on management style and that he still gets out of office occasionally to do onsite PLC training. His way of keeping his feet wet and in close contact with their customer base. Don also conducts a PLC training seminar once every quarter which helps him stay in tune with the industry's training needs.

Don runs his company on a Lean and Green principal so as to provide the best industrial training, for less. His company BIN provides world class instructor based industrial training and industrial training software at the lowest possible cost. The company is a 100% Veteran Owned Business VOSB)

His primary goal now days is to stop manufacturers from letting their automation bring production to its knees. His secondary goal is to educate manufacturers on the true cost of downtime.