Robert Riehl Email & Phone Number

Auburn Hills, MI, US

Supporting manufacturers in the Aerospace, Automotive, Consumer Products, Aviation, Medical Devices, and other industries. Responsible for mechanical, electro-mechanical, and pneumatic designs, primarily for robotic metal finishing applications. Specializing in material removal, specifically, the grinding, polishing, buffing, and deburring of metal.

Sudbury, MA, US

• Communicates design ideas and concepts to manufacturing personnel through drawings, presentations, in-design reviews and manufacturing meetings.
• Integration of machine tools into manufacturing environments.
• Prepares final documentation from 3D models for designs and details for release and build.
• Continued project involvement during assembly build on shop floor for possible alterations or revisions and revises documentation.Job Responsibilities:
• Hydraulic and pneumatic fixture concepts and designs for CNC machines
• End-of-Arm-Tooling for robotic applications

New Boston, MI, US

• Heavy fixture design on Chevy Volt under body assembly Including process of operation, sequencing and cycle time.
• Coordinated and liaised between production, manufacturing and purchasing personnel with all required documents and inquiries.
• Prepared projects from Autodesk Inventor and Auto CAD 3D modeling to final assembly drawings for shop fabrications
• Provided all Bills of Material for each project.
• Checked and finalized all drawings for issuance.
• Responsible for all mechanical items in weld cell, including robot reach studies, cable management, controls equipment and all necessary safety requirements.

Novi, Michigan, US

• Designed robotic system layouts. Ranging from single robot cells to multi-robot assembly lines. Responsibilities included process drawings, reach studies, ergonomic studies, pneumatic drawings, safety fencing, cable.
• Tool design of holding fixtures, material handling units, weld fixtures (including sizing of weld guns), conveyors and lift units.
• Duties involved design, layout, detail, and check of these projects.
• Other duties included project engineering. This included follow-up for outsourced designs and builds.

• Heavy design and layout work for body-side assemblies on full-size Dodge Van and Ford Econoline. Design work included loading of fixtures, dump units and vision systems. Checked clamp and pin units, shuttle delivery.

Warren, MI, US

• Medium design assignments. Concentration of work focused on floor pan and wheel-house welding fixtures for GMC.

• Layout of single clamp & pin units.
• Heavy detail.

Mechanical Engineering

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