Process engineering experience in automotive and food manufacturing.
Continuous improvement leader of waste reductions, quality and cost projects.
Experience in successful new program launches and adaptive material changeovers.
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FANUC What Are You Doing?
For an upcoming robot install, I was reviewing the process equipment in the paint robot arm. I found quite a “head scratcher” with the compressed air lines. I traced everything through and found that 3 compressed air lines are merged into 2 and then both the lines come into 1 inlet. I can’t understand why…
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Automatic Watering System
I setup a watering system for my grow tent over the winter. I modified an cheap watering system with a nodemcu for a controller and a simple mosfet to run the pump. I tied into the existing system so I can use the battery. Overall it was a relatively simple modification and was able to…
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Reverse Osmosis Monitoring System
I finally setup a monitoring system for my reverse osmosis system. I have 1 pressure sensor to track mainline water pressure, 2 flow meters to track usage and efficiency and 2 TDSsensor to track concentration. This was a pretty fun project and it was the first time I was working with a pulse based water…
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Complete Cohesive Failure
Had some production issues today where I was called for paint adhesion issues. I started looking into it and found that it wasn’t paint adhesion but rather plastic cohesion that was failing. I had a look at some other parts and was able to capture this amazing photo of complete peeling.
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Solvent Embrittlement of PC/ABS
We had some solvent exposure at work that made for a good picture of solvent embrittlement on PC/ABS. You can see that that once the solvent flashes off you can see the plastic swells up and leaves opaque spots. I started doing some trials where any time there is some molded in stress I run…
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Controller Tuning & Aggressive Control
While training the new student we started having some production issues with material pulsing that made for a great teaching opportunity. We reviewed the labview monitor and saw significant instability in the flows with overly aggressive controls. During troubleshooting I was able to catch a nice screenshot that showed different control patterns in decreasing aggressiveness.…