Areas of mold related expertise to be immediately offered include:

• Representing engineers primarily from OEM’s to work in their best interest:
• Working with their selected moldmakers in developing mold design concepts/features for optimized productivity. This may involve selecting the moldmaker, assisting in appropriate manifold selection (if applicable) and establishing appropriate mold pricing through clear specifications.
• Evaluating existing molds slated for replacement to advise on features to reduce/eliminate previous issues and aid in reducing cycle.
• Monitoring the moldbuilding process for quality and timely delivery.
• Attending/monitoring/advising on mold qualification runs to production.
• Troubleshooting existing problem molds in the field. This may include advising mold iterations for cycle improvements or insert modifications for high maintenance molds.
   
• Working with moldmakers to promote automation implementation. Areas of manufacturing expertise include:
• Automating 2-machine/1 robot sub cells for mold insert manufacture.
• Integrating multiple sub cells.
• Integrating an entire mold insert manufacturing site.
• Developing a process to manage any of the above selections

Future seminars planned are:

• Optimum mold design
• Integrating automation
• Employee empowerment

Other positions within the industry:

• Serving as CT/EO (Chief Tooling/Engineering Officer) for QSOne of Mesa Arizona, a quality organization with full FDA capabilities – In charge of all tooling and tooling engineering-related functions for QSOne’s customers.

Member: Society of Plastics Engineers