Patrick Schafer Email & Phone Number

Manager for EPC in Grinnell, IA.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Fabricated and integrated new expansion enclosure into a large flow-through paint booth to utilize VFD control of 480VAC ventilation motors.
• Installed multiple new electrical runs and service drops for machinery relocation and service stations.
• Responsible for maintaining and repairing hundreds of different machines, work cells, and other facility infrastructure items and areas.
• Upgraded/integrated existing equipment with newer designed mechanical fixtures, and electronic devices including but not limited to sensors, servos, motors, gearboxes, linear slides, and programming.
• Responsible for documenting all activities daily into Titan software maintenance inventory system.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Integrated new PLC’s into existing equipment to utilize data logging for QTMS system.
• Overhauled AC and DC electrical infrastructure on a prototype web converting machine to sustain higher levels of production with reduced downtime and support costs.
• Designed new mechanical and electrical schematics for 50,000 sq ft production expansion, including all supported infrastructure for production needs.
• Maintained and repaired HMI’s, PLC’s and peripheral controls, servos, servo drives, software enhancements, wiring, cooling systems, bearings and gearboxes, lubrication systems, hydraulics, and pneumatic controls.
• Designed layout and installed new state-of-the-art plant-wide integrated high-CFM vacuum system.
• Pursued and implemented numerous cost-saving solutions for production and overall plant infrastructure. Participation in new compressed air and vacuum layout and design resulted in $100,000+ per year in energy savings.

• Integrated into existing processes to understand and troubleshoot existing and new equipment with daily and real-time support.
• Developed new troubleshooting guides and techniques for existing maintenance workers to diagnose problems and solve them quickly and safely in a hazardous Class 1 environment.
• Troubleshooting, modification and integration of new control techniques with Allen Bradley PLC’s and other proprietary hardware.
• Worked directly with contracted employees through the manufacturer and U.S. government inspectors and other government entities to ensure automation, quality, and safety controls were followed properly to ensure.

• Designed new electrical layouts and schematics for a large soybean plant, including control systems as well as electrical distribution.
• Utilized AutoCAD Electrical to exclusively design, document, and cross-link electrical data between hundred of drawings to fully link specific electrical pathway data between associated drawings, and to also assist.
• Worked in a team environment to accomplish quick and constantly changing details.

Ankeny, Iowa, US

• Construction, and technical automation support for Micro-Molder machines.
• Responsible for design, hands-on installation, and support of new building electrical demands.
• Responsible for engineering, design, documentation, hands-on building, programming, and support of new multi-million dollar automated systems for injected molded parts, inspection, packaging, and safety systems.
• Responsible for being lead programmer, designer, and having extensive engineering knowledge and troubleshooter for the following specific automation components including (but not limited to): - Allen Bradley.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining HVAC and building support systems, and making modifications to the systems as necessary.
• Responsible for coordinating outside suppliers for price competitiveness and support for automation projects.

• Responsible for directing maintenance and support staff to equipment and production processes as needed.
• Responsible for designing new equipment and processes, including APQP and FMEA of processes.
• Fully responsible for all PLC control systems engineering, integration, programming, and troubleshooting, as well as design and implementation of new systems (Allen Bradley and Omron).
• Implemented new control systems and hardware to existing equipment to satisfy and exceed quality and customer requirements, and drastically improve overall PPM with customers.
• Directed engineering department forward to establish new quality and efficiency goals, including the implementation of lean manufacturing and automation systems.
• Supervised and trained 25 UAW employees for 6 weeks, in a Tier-II assembly process for GM.

Eleanor, West Virginia, US

• Trained production processes, quality, and safety standards to new employees.
• Responsible for operation and making modifications to programming to meet O.E.E. and quality needs.
• Exclusive knowledge of Hedrich, Sansow-Kikow, Lanly; schematics and repair.
• Maintenance, including repair, modification, and fabrication to equipment in entire department, including: - Vacuum pumps and boosters: Hedrich, Busch, Tuthill, and Leybold, - Hydraulics: vane-pumps, hoses, cylinders.