Leonardo Torres Email & Phone Number

Sonora, Mexico

Nogales, Sonora, Mexico

Nogales, Sonora

Responsible of the transformative approach to work in leadership for Lean to be truly effective offering guidance, and ensure that Lean techniques are being used to optimize the entire organizational system for value delivery. Lean principles are being applied with the right goal in mind to maximize the delivery of value to the customer.

Nogales, Sonora Mexico

Nogales, Sonora

Nogales Sonora

Working with Aerospace valves, Regulators, Solenoids, Stators, Coils, in a short period of time I’ve improved test fixtures, Implementation of Lean Manufacturing practices to reduce variations, scrap, established visual aids for manufacturing process, support to production department, Tracking Yields, performed 5 why analysis, 8D, PFMA, Process control, Flow, CARS. Customer visits attendance. Implementation of corrective and preventive actions. Prepare visual aids and Travelers for manufacturing process.Improved test indicators, fixtures for sub-assembly and top assembly, bins for transportation of sub assy and top assy parts in order to reduce the scrap and have better performance in Yields and reduce the time delivery with customers increasing the efficency.

Lead Process Engineer/Engineering Coordinator. (December 2013 – Actual) Belden de Sonora.Implementation of corrective and preventive actions, 5 Why Analysis, Root Cause, knowledge and experience on methodologies of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, Perform Kaizen events. Responsible to perform the weekly TTI (Target To Improve) & the monthly CCRC (Counter Measure Root Cause) by cell with engineering team. Always focused to reduce the top Three Pareto Scrap Bars. Performs Daily GEMBA Walks in the mornings, Performs Daily DMAIC walks two times a day through production cells; all of this to define impact actions in order to reduce the scrap and reduce the Internal Rejects.Responsible to maintain the Tests Scripts up to date, support to the Technologies. keep in constant communication with IT support personnel-Nogales Plant, and with design development department, Support to the QA department with systems and tests equipment. Coordinate NPI, ECOs & Engineering Trials. Responsible to develop the productivity Project and the expected annual saving for 2015 is 1.5M, at the time the actual saving is $52, 000 dlls by cost reduction replacing the compounds and next phase is to reduce the diameters on FEP diameter and increase the Poly Diameter.Responsible to follow up the Kaizen events performed in the cell by weekly meeting to see the Kaizen Self Sustainment. I am a creative and proactive person who is looking for improvements and work closely with Lean and Production Manager to define the Kaizen event to do. Responsible to prepare trainings and coach to our associates at the Nogales plant by the using of techniques and basis of Lean Tools such 5S, TPM, Visual Factory, VSM, VRK, SMED, STD Work and Quick actions like “go-do”, Etc.Responsible to create the wire paths on cell 6 to get better control on wire processes and quick machinery identification when electrical failures happen. Share this implementation to other engineers to copy-paste to other cells.

Nogales Sonora

April 2012 – ActualBelden de SonoraData Process Engineering.Responsible for the fabrication and test process of Cat6, Cat6a, Cat6e, Cat6+, XGO, XCGB4 data cable at the Nogales facility in Nogales, Mexico.Cable fabrication monitoring includes copper extrusion, insulation, twinning, cabling, jacketing and put up processes as well as electrical tests performed during the fabrication of the wire. Wire testing during the fabrication process includes Impedance, SRL (Structural Return Loss), DCR (Direct Current Resistance) & Elongation tests.Cable testing parameters include Impedance, Return Loss, Attenuation, NEXT (Near-End CrossTalk), FEXT (Far-End CrossTalk), PSNEXT (Power Sum NEXT), ACR (Attenuation to CrossTalk). Electrical tests are performed by using network analyzer for S-parameter testing as well as LCR meters. Cabler analyzers like Fluke DTX-1800. To provide training for the production personnel at manufacturing process floor, troubleshoot machinery. Certification of operators, work in the scrap actions and improvements, Lean Daily Management attendance.

Leon Guanajuato

FAURECIA EXHAUST SERVICES MEXICANA S.A de C.V. Automotive IndustryApril 2011 – March 2012 (León Guanajuato) Bending/Process Engineer.Improved test tooling to reduce the variations and scrap, established visual aids & process instructions. Responsible for the 10 production Cells of Bending process that includes 10 Bending Machines (Electrical, Hydraulic and Hybrid systems), Sizers, Cutters, Responsible to maintain the software’s up to date for each performed pipe/tube based on CNC software for the different Exhaust system, in charge of eight bending technicians. Achievements: Provide support in the process, to improve the test gages, to control the programs of each bended pipe, to provide support to the new launch team, troubleshoot bending machinery, Go-No-Go fixtures' certification, update CNC programs.

Hermosillo Area, Mexico

New products introduction, Failure Analysis, Trouble shooting electronic boards, repairs & trainings, update Pin Pads. Responsible to train and assist NASC technicians on new and mature products for diagnosis and repair and assist in the setup of test and equipment required. To provide answers from a technical, mechanical and operations stand of point between HYC and NASC, to provide Failure analysis reports on time to customers, support in supervising Rework and RMA jobs on new products. In charge of providing and verifying all FARMA’s (Failure Analysis RMA) and follow up with any customer urgent need. ECO’s and Rework Orders Coordinator. Knowledge and experience with terminals point of sale (POS) Table Top, Handheld/Portable with Bluetooth, RFID & GSM technologies. LAN Networking. Responsible to provide support to nine production cells with test equipment and trouble shooting electronic boards and optimize the software to download into the units creating BAT files-Operating system protocols.Achievements: Implemented test repair work cells, Failure Analysis & trainings. Reduced the movements having fluent process during the repairs and tests increasing the production at 12%. Reworked & tested 36,000 POS terminals. Transferred new products T42XX Faimily, M42XX Family & L4150 Terminal. Developed work instructions, Visual Aids and test instructions for production department. Provided feedbacks to the design engineering department on ether hardware or software findings.

Nogales Sonora

Participation on introduce the new launch of Logic board (Logic 3), TINO & ELITE Openers. Coordinated ECN’s and production pilot runs. Responsible to Maintain/monitor equipment/testers to assure good performance, Developed and implemented electrical test fixtures for testing electronic boards, Coordinate the technical support department for pilot run, to provide training for the production personnel on testing boards, Develop Engineering Change Request (ECR) and follow up, support to production department & trouble shooting. Creation of Bill Of Materials (BOM´s), Routings and upload, Functional command matrix validation’s Firmware/Source code, Analysis, Review and implementation of ECN to introduce new products or any engineering change reporting feedback to design engineering department @Elmhurst IL, New products/Projects managing with my team (3 electronic Engineers). Transition of Sentex systems from Chatsworth California to Nogales, Solid State Security Fire Door from Pennsylvania to Nogales, ATLAS Fire Door operator from Phoenix Arizona to Nogales. Performed & Coordinated reworks at Tampa Florida, Ontario Canada, New Jersey NJ, Atlanta Georgia.

Nogales Sonora

R.F Amplifiers and Fiber Optic Products.Responsible to Evaluate new products and new components using chambers at low and high temperatures, GRMS chamber, Variac's. To report results to the design engineering, To perform Life Test taking units from production floor and perform the tests and evaluate the results.Developed HALT & HASS (Highly Accelerated Life Test/Highly Accelerated Stress Screening) to new and mature products to find the operational function, a procedure was Implemented to be used to create new profiles and edit the existing profiles, Implemented test repair fixtures, performed trainings and assist the technicians on trouble shoot and repair boards, Keep the database up to date with tests results.

Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma Certifications

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) - Electronics Engineer, Control Systems