Bob Schober Email & Phone Number

Rockford, Il, Us

Rockford, Il, Us

Marengo, Il

Test forklift designs and components for safety and reliability to UL, ISO, and ANSI standards.

Rockford, Illinois Area

•Identify opportunities in their geographies to support networking and alumni programs, activities, and events•Coordinate programs and events with the Office of Alumni Development•Establish and manage the regional online network; including use of social networking tools•Stay connected with the university

Rockford, Illinois Area

-Process memberships for Sons of the American Legion members at Post 1207 Rockford, IL-Assist in various fund raising events for the organization

Rockford, Illinois Area

·Coordinate Veterans transportation from Rockford to Madison VA hospital-Volunteer driver to take veterans from Rockford to Madison VA for their appointments·Assist with various mailing duties

·Wiring ZAPI steering and traction controls into a prototype fork lift and debugging their operation·Advised on electrical and mechanical design changes to implement the controls.·Demonstrated prototype operation to parent company and end customer.·This was a part time contract position

·Trained in Lean Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping, and 5S tools by Rockwell-Collins. Also a trained Designated Quality Representative (DQR) for Sikorsky Aircraft. Training by Hamilton- Sundstrand in root cause problem analysis. Received training in FMEA.·Assisted in the design and construction of a new clean room for our SMD, assembly, and test equipment. ·Purchased and implemented an ACE selective soldering machine.·Responsible to answer quality problems and initiate improvements.·Write assembly and test instructions and solve assembly and test related problems.·Responsible for SMT area with two QUAD pick and place machines, screen printer, and reflow oven.·Oversee the Test, ESS and vibration operations.·Enter routings and rates into our Vantage MIS system.·As assembly supervisor (Oct, 2004-Nov, 2005), was responsible for an 11 person electromechanical assembly dept and on-time delivery of products and scheduling employees to meet deliveries. Conducted employee evaluations and reviews.

Rockford, Illinois Area

·Responsible for production testing of Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) from 1-600 HP.·Used Agilent VEE and Visual Basic programming languages.·Responsible for verification of ICT and function test of PCA’s by vendors in WI, IL, TX, NY, & MX.·Worked with vendors to supply custom designed test equipment, control panels, and software.·Responsible for equipment to test IGBT’s & SCR’s using LEMSYS tester, capacitors using Sencore tester, fans, wire harnesses using Cirris tester, and other major components of VFD’s.·Responsible for testing ModBus, LonWorks, & DeviceNet communication options.·Responsible for PROM programming procedure and equipment.·Responsible for High Potential testing of VFD’s and components.·Handled product quality and test issues.·Communicated with colleagues in Denmark to resolve test problems on imported products.·Wrote test instructions for test operators.·Was a member of several product introduction teams.·Was responsible for the installation of approximately $1 Million in test equipment in order to move into our new facility on schedule and on budget.·Scheduled and directed tasks for two engineers and two technicians.·Responsible for planning & implementation of department budgets & capital equipment purchases.·Have been trained in Six Sigma tools.

·Responsible for methods, processes, and design and purchase of tools and capital equipment for the PCA assembly departments of a $300 Million ISO-9001 certified company. Annual PCA production 2 million boards, high mix, medium volume. ·Programmed and designed fixtures for PCA automatic assembly equipment ·Purchased equipment and controlled processes for PCA soldering & cleaning equipment, ·Purchased equipment and set-up manufacturing and test processes for component preparation, and wire preparation and termination.·Handled sub-assembly area including board masking,·Handled inspection & touch-up area,·Performed temperature profiling on wave soldering and reflow ovensUse knowledge and experience to reduce manufacturing costs and quality problems.·Interfaced directly with all manufacturing support departments - purchasing, production control, quality, design engineering, to reduce manufacturing costs.·Supervised the duties of two technicians and led TQM and Quality Circle teams. ·Responsible for the software, and computers in the shipping area to perform on-line invoicing, Bills of Lading, manifests, and shipping charges.·Implemented CAD software to automatically generate PCA assembly programs and NC drill programs for drilling PCB’s dual head drilling machine.·Familiar with dry-film processing of PCB’s. ·Installed first company LAN to file serve NC programs to manufacturing equipment & set-up first company email system. ·Assisted in planning and start-up of a “job lot of one” product manufacturing cell for temperature controllers with over $1M equipment budget. Cell consisted of SMD PCA build & test, product assembly, burn-in, calibration & test, & packaging.·Successfully converted entire company from aqueous to no-clean technology soldering.·Tested cleanliness of PCA’s with Omegameter 600. Operated lines at Mil-Spec cleanliness levels.·Handled all label making for the division using Labelview software & Zebra printers.