Chuck Spanbauer Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, Us

IE for Lean Manufacturing Tier 1 manufacturer of belts for automotive and specialty OE and aftermarket applications with strong focus on Process Analysis & Standardization, Documentation, Continuous Improvements, and Capital Projects to enhance profitability. Created Visual Process Documents for greater effectiveness, plotted Policy Deployment updates for Communication Center, collaborated with Production Associates to increase efficiency and safety with small projects, taught Standardized Work and created SWK Documents for whole production Facility, taught 5-S courses and facilitated 5-S / SMED activities and served on several multi-functional teams to enhance operations using Lean Tools.

Enhance production processes like heat-treating to reduce variation and cost, set-up manual offline processes and train operators for limited production runs, quick-changeover setups, sample coating trials and development for new product introductions, addition of ink jet date coding to products, spec-out, purchase, debugg, and train operators on automatic powdercoating system for router bits, and enhance tooling life, performance, and sharpening accuracy through design / materials changes.

Learned the Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Standard Work, and Quick Changeovers (SMED). Participated in and later planned and led Interplant Kaizen Event. Learned Mac Tools line in Ohio and transferred production and know-how to NC, and again to Cleveland. Assisted purchasing resolving vendor issues and localize vendors in NC. Kept production equipment running and made enhancements to reduce setup time and quality issues. Setup, balanced the line, and led packaging operations and coached stock runners in the Just-in-time method.

Selected along with 6 others from crop of 300 candidates for new plant start-up TEAM. Staffed and supervised upper and lower bearing and cylinder lines in high tolerance machine shop;worked on team to document process, review and maintain them, and achieve ISO 9000 certification for plant; worked on team to change manufacturing data system to SSA to automate and simplify record keeping;Trained and supervised 30 production associates on 3-month overseas training mission in Japan; new hire orientation leader for process documentation; planned and executed visual factory tour signage; special events plant photographer with SLR (Film) camera. Setup and costed limited production line for specialty compressors and verified product costing.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration And Management, General

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Industrial Engineering

State Certificate, Machinist