Robert Updike Email & Phone Number

Scaling Big Data and Analytics to IPG manufacturing sites.

Blythewood, South Carolina

Blythewood, South Carolina

Provide web handling and process development support to a new tape manufacturing facility.

Rochester, New York Area

• Provide winding, conveyance, lamination, and nip mechanics process development, consulting, and training to worldwide manufacturing clients. Lead in house process development initiatives, fundamental modeling, as well.
• Highly successful training and process consultant initiatives have saved clients millions of dollars / year by improving client process capability, streamlining start-up costs, decreasing quality issues, and reducing.
• Web Handling Trainer for 4-6 web handling workshops per year. These workshops were attended by process engineers and technicians from the US and abroad. These training workshops, which are held at the Optimation Media.
• Co-authored ‘Wireless Monitoring of Internal Wound Roll Pressures’ Technical Paper Received ‘best paper award’ at the 2013 International Conference on Web Handling, which was held at Oklahoma State University.
• Authored and presented ‘Practical Process Considerations for Lamination’ paper at the 2010 Applied Web Handling Conference, held May 17-20, 2010 in Rochester, New York.

• Provided process development and manufacturing process support for $20M/year optical film manufacturing factory. Recognized as a micro-replication process expert and instrumental in the process development of light.
• Successfully developed new processes and procedures which eliminated web induced apex defect generation during machine start-up, which saved in excess of $100,000K / year.
• Leader of transfer reliability team which reduced transfer related downtime by 93% for a savings of $282,000 / year.
• Key contributor to the attainment of an "industry best" 99.7% customer quality by integrating an on-line micro replication nip roller cleaner.
• Developed process understanding which greatly improved product planarity and developed fitness for use planarity specifications.
• Provided winding, conveyance and nip mechanics development and manufacturing support.

• Product Development Engineer / Technician /Optical Display Team 2004 – 2007Provided product / process development of a lower cost method of manufacturing light management displays, which lead to the very successful.
• Performed nip pressure characterization trials on prototype test equipment.
• Defined critical machine requirements for conveyance, winding, and nip mechanics. o Used wound roll winding models, nip force modeling, and web to roller traction modeling to aid in defining machine requirements.
• Was an integral part of the successful debug and commissioning of the new manufacturing / development equipment.
• Analysis of machine process data using JMP, Excel and Matlab, delivered essential process understanding which systematically overcame many scale up challenges, to successfully deliver quality product.
• Developed and documentation many machine processes and maintenance procedures.

• Performed process development experiments on prototype equipment and theoretical modeling to enable design of new product processes, improve manufacturing efficiency, and reduced waste.
• Provided winding, conveyance, and nip mechanics support for worldwide manufacturing and converting.
• Worked with the worldwide process club to create tension models of all Kodak sensitizing sites worldwide. o This intranet based model paid large dividends by uncovering a significant design flaw in a major capital.
• Taught bi-yearly classes in web conveyance and winding to Kodak engineers and technicians.
• Modeled manufacturing processes to aid in defining design requirements, leading to more efficient manufacturing facilities, with less waste.
• Prototyped capital manufacturing solutions to minimize risk and develop process understanding.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Electrical Engineering Technology, 3.5

Aas, Business Administration And Management