Mechanical Engineer Manufacturing

Mark Schladenhauffen

Mechanical Engineer / New Product Development

Material Selection Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly Agency Approvals

Westford, MA 01886 C: 978-***-**** *******@***.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/markschladenhauffen

PROFESIONAL PROFILE

An experienced mechanical design and manufacturing engineer in the following industries: military, industrial and consumer. Experienced in material selection and specification of the best materials for the product taking into consideration intended and worst case uses and part cost. Designs are cost efficient because they strive to use the theoretical minimum number of parts. Designs have used plastics, metals, steels and rubbers and TPE's for interior and exterior parts.

SKILLS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

New Product Development Process, New Product Introduction - Standards – MIL-STD 810, IPC, IEC, SAE, ASME, NEMA, ASTM, RMA, ANSI - Regulatory Agencies – DOD, UL, CSA, CE, TUV Rheinland, - Solid Modeling CAD, CAM, CAE and FEA - Pro/ENGINEER, PTC Creo Elements/Pro 4.0, SolidWorks 2017, Siemens NX 9.0, COMSOL Multiphysics, Zemax Optical - Six Sigma Mechanical Design Tolerancing - ASME Y14.5 Geometric Tolerancing - Design for Six Sigma - Design of Experiments (DOE) - Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) - Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis (DFMEA) - Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA) - High Volume Plastic Materials and Processes – Concurrent Costing Software - Boothryod Dewhurst Inc. - Lab Equipment: Optical Mounts and Rail, Instron Universal Test Equipment, Micro-Vu Optical Inspection Equipment, Multimeter and Oscilloscope – Shop Equipment: Bridgeport, Lathe, Sheet Metal brakes and punches, table saw, 3D Rapid Prototype Printers – SAP - Windchill - Passed Massachusetts Engineer-In-Training Exam - The International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE) - Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) – Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME)

MASTERS CONCENTRATION AND THESIS

Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)

Thesis: Economic Application of Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) and Reinforced RIM – Dr. Dewhurst Advisor

PATENTS

•United States Patent 6,937,812 - Multiple Viewing Angle Cover Having Integral Light pipes

•United States Patent 6,958,694 - Multiple-angle Viewable Indicator Apparatus

•United States Patent 7,009,525 - Multiple-angle Viewable Indicator Apparatus

•United States Patent 7,190,268 - Multiple-angle Viewable Indicator Apparatus

•United States Patent 7,412,900 - Sensor Mounting Structure with Adjustable Swivel Ball and Panel Mounting Mechanism

•United States Patent 7,415,891 - Sensor Mounting Structure with Snapping Feature

WORK EXPERIENCE

Bose Corporation October 2012 – December 2017

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Product Value and Competitor Product Assessment Engineering

Consumer Electronics Product Development – Framingham, MA

Provided benchmarks for Consumer Electronics Product Development (CEPD) through the assessment of competitor audio and video products including high performance wired and wireless headphone and loudspeaker systems, Audio for Video systems, mobile electronic wireless systems and provided cost estimates for new products in development.

Conducted and coordinated product teardowns

Developed and maintained cost estimates, feature and function assessments and technology assessments

Identified opportunities that lead to competitive advantage for either Bose or for our competitors, for improvements to existing and future Bose products and for cost reduction opportunities that can be applied to Bose products

Developed and maintained a repository that provides access to assessment results by the development community and to collect and disseminate results from ongoing individual workgroup competitive assessments

Collaborated with other product value engineers in developing “should cost” total landed estimates for new products

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Continuing Improvement Engineering

Consumer Electronics Product Development – Framingham, MA

On contract through Randstad US Professionals, as part of interdisciplinary teams, was responsible for developing creative mechanical and electro-mechanical solutions for a variety of problems. The problems include feature upgrades on existing products, design problems discovered in the manufacturing plant and in the field, part obsolescence, suppliers going out of business and cost savings.

Reviewed, tested and approved over 20 cable assemblies from a replacement supplier in a timely manner that prevented customer dissatisfaction in a holiday sale season, multiple line down situations and revenue loss. The team received a Directors Award for their effort.

Participated and contributed to Phoenix Cost Reduction Team – redesigned a flex circuit and other mechanical elements in a personal mobile audio system that resulted in a savings of $76K per year. The team saved the company over $600K per year with the implementation of all cost saving ideas.

Rockwell Automation October 1994 – April 2012

Project Lead

Safety, Sensing and Connectivity Business Unit – Chelmsford MA

Project Lead for the design and development of connector and cable systems. Defined overall mechanical design, material selection requirements, material qualification criteria and developed schedules. Verbally presented monthly project progress reports to upper management on both schedule and cost to date. Designed mechanical parts and housings, electronic packaging, discrete wire, pins, sockets, flex circuits, over-molded parts, cable and harness assemblies, optic-holders, lenses, seals and shells using plastics, metals, steels, rubbers, TPE’s and plastisols. Parts designed for the following processes: injection and compression molding, cast, drawn, rolled, machined and stamped parts. Responsibilities have included part concept, detail design and approval, product prototype manufacture and testing, through regulatory submissions (UL / CSA / CE / TUV) and manufacturing start-up and hand-off.

Assigned and supervised work of three engineers and mentored junior engineers

Designed first all plastic ultrasonically sealed mechanically adjustable background suppression photoelectric sensor

Selected a copper alloy for the low cost machining of threads on the exterior of the enclosure of a proximity sensor

Researched and selected an IR pass dye used with acrylic lenses and plastic acrylic housing

Researched stress-free injection molded plastic lens materials

Created SOP for the qualification of plastics and adhesives for use in photoelectric and proximity sensors

Selected adhesives and plastic enclosure materials for the first highly successful photoelectric sensor with a fully sealed enclosure without hardware

Designed M23 Harness Assembly System for connecting industrial heavy-duty equipment to PLCs and factory automation equipment

PRIOR POSITIONS

Polaroid Corporation – Lead Manufacturing Engineer – Joshua Camera Production – Norwood, MA

Main frame and film transport mechanism support. Ran production pilots and performed engineering analysis of line fall-off, determined root cause utilizing fault-trees and design of experiments. Developed and implemented corrective action plans

Raytheon Corporation – Manufacturing Engineer – Submarine Signal Division, - Portsmouth, RI

Cable and Harness Design and Manufacture, Fixture Design, Capital Equipment Justification and production support

New England Business Services Inc. - Industrial Engineer – Groton, MA

New Product Development - Facilities Design, Capital Equipment Justification, NPI Costing and Value Engineering

EDUCATION

University of Rhode Island, Department of Mechanical Engineering – Kingston, RI

Masters of Science in Manufacturing Engineering

University of Massachusetts – Amherst, MA

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Concentration: Mechanical Engineering

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