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Saint-Gobain Abrasives is the world's leading manufacturer of abrasive products for a wide variety of consumer, commercial, and industrial applications.Key Contributions:● Facilitated interdepartmental team targeting a specific product line. identified material and process improvements that resulted in a 30% gain in product life, and a 20% reduction in manufacturing costs..● Revised product design standards which improved overall product quality and reduced scrap costs.● Key member of team focused on LEAN initiative, successfully improving product flow through manufcaturing and eliminating waste, resulting in a reduction of manufacturing lead time from 21 to 11 days.● Established design and manufacturing guidlines for inside sales, promoting more cost effective product quotations.Responsibilities (In addition to those of previous position) :● Provide effective leadership within Design and Engineering group.● Prioritize design projects, and distribute appropriately to team members.● Lead team design reviews with key members of other departments.● Provide technical support and establish clear direction for engineering and manufacturing personnel.● Assess product quality issues and manufacturing non-conformances, and determine appropriate corrective actions.

Key Contributions:● Member of Engineering Reliability Improvement (ERI) Team that reduced design lead times by 30%.● Defined customer product information form that provided a consistent and accurate method of identifying customer design requirements.● Instrumental in defining dimensional and manufacturing requirements for components of stock, thin profile rotary diamond dressers.Responsibilities:● Develop precision tool designs based on customer part specifications, application parameters, and manufacturing limitations.● Create 3-D CAD models of product components, tooling for product manufacture and integrate models into adaptive assemblies.● Produce fully detailed drawings of individual components, assemblies, and manufacturing processes using GD & T methodology.● Determine material specifications for manufacture based on product characteristics, customer requirements, and cost benefit.● Create material UPC, BOM, routing operations and production orders in SAP information system.