Maintain product documentation, assist marketing and sales with BOMs for new applications, ensure agency documentation is followed, and support production facilities.

Designed production assembly tooling, designed enhancements to existing tooling and impacted various cost saving projects. Documented procedures and designed in process and final checking and gauging fixtures.

Developed processes and tooling and designed assembly fixtures for new product launches, designed enhancements for existing product tooling, and impacted various cost savings projects. Applied Six Sigma training to replace an out of control process with a statistical controlled process. Developed tooling and measurement system that controlled the process by replacing the operator intensive station on the assembly line with a semiautomatic offline operation. The existing operation produced one of the largest sources of customer returns and complaints. Maintained the company's competitiveness by developing tooling and processes to wind consistent high amperage coils to fit into smaller packages to fit customer requests. This required special tooling and processes which had not been utilized before this product launch. Procedures were written for the process steps, including in process checking fixtures. Reduced scrap and rework time on expensive metal cased breakers. The breakers were solder-sealed to hold the components in place prior to final electrical test. Developed tooling to mechanically stake the case and header in place before electrical testing. Tooling was developed to open the components and allow them to be repaired without destroying valuable components. Reduced coil rejects by 40% on automatic coil winders by redesigning the coil lead position stations. This eliminated operator rework and improved cycle time which allowed multiple machine responsibilities for the operators.

Report to Manager of Manufacturing Engineering. Responsible for maintenance and upgrade of production assembly equipment, developing new processes and methods and supervision of Tool Room personnel.

Maintained production equipment; upgraded existing equipment and processes; developed new processes and methods; and Supervised Tool Room personnel. Reduced rejects and cycle time by modifying a station of an automatic assembly machine. The new station clamped and staked the two case halves together. The two halves just rested on top of each other and were staked without being properly positioned previously. The tooling of this station was redesigned to clamp, check the orientation and then stake together the two halves.

Main responsibilities included improving and modifying assembly equipment which included high speed, semi-automatic and hand operated assembly equipment. Also the design of auxillary equipment to meet special customer requirements.

Developed tools for various product lines and designed and implemented additional processes and equipment for the assembly lines. Main functions included improving and modifying assembly equipment and updating the applicable prints. Eliminated 100% inspection of finished product by adding a checking station to the existing assembly machine. The sensor detected no fill molded parts and partial filled parts and removed them to a separate container from the finished product. Eliminated a secondary process line for marking finished product. An ink jet printer was added to the assembly line to marked the product on the main assemble line.

Designed and modified new and existing tools, provided quotes, wrote specifications and ordered new tools including progressive metal stamping dies. Six month training in Raleigh under Sr. Tool Engineer and 5 months training with Marco Tool Inc.

Developed operations and methods, time studies, cost estimates and costs for metal stampings and screw machine production areas. Prevented fines from City of Raleigh for pollution of water system by working with a city engineer to develop a filtration system and set up a maintenance program. The filtration system took out mainly metal particles from the tumbling operations of metal parts.

Conducted packaging time studies that determined line balancing and pace rating (Westinghouse method), generated operational process sheets, evaluated packaging methods analysis and modified plant layout and material flow analysis. Saved costs of shipping customer samples by organizing the inventory of left over shipping components from previous production runs. This allowed us to use these components to ship customer samples without ordering special packaging. The left over components would normally be scrapped.