Manufacturing Engineer, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement

Lenard Deiterman (BSEE)

**** ******** ***** **********, ** 72764

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Summary

I started my career obtaining and maintaining safety agency certifications and supervising engineering lab technicians fabricating and testing new prototype designs. Later design and development responsibility for a line of floor maintenance machines was added. After being trained in customer-driven Value Analysis techniques, I led design teams that delivered superior products at lower cost. When responsibility for product design and development transferred to Plymouth, Minnesota in 2008, I accepted a Manufacturing Engineer position and implemented Lean Manufacturing in the factory. This position was eliminated on September 1, 2015 after all production was transferred from Springdale, Arkansas to Queretaro, Mexico.

Skills

AutoCAD, Excel, Lean, Outlook, PowerPoint, SolidWorks, Value Analysis and Word. Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, JIT, Pareto analysis, Root cause, Single-piece flow, SMED, etc. Supervision of engineering lab technicians. Assembly, Brazing, Castings, Extrusions, Rotational molding, Sheet Metal Fabrications, Soldering, Stampings and Weldments. Electrical, Hydraulic and Pneumatic Connection Diagrams, Harnesses and Schematics.

Employment

Manufacturing Engineer for Nilfisk (machinery manufacturer), Aug 1986 to Sep 2015.

Accomplishments:

Led VA design teams that generated > $10,000,000 of new product cost avoidance.

Delivered > $1,000,000 of existing product cost savings with quality improvements.

Streamlined Manufacturing Order process saving 400 man-hours every year.

Continuous Improvement using Lean Manufacturing and Value Analysis tools.

Solved countless issues with machinery, processes, products and tooling.

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Experience

Lean Manufacturing methodologies.

Led Kaizen events that reduced work space and improved assembly flow.

Implemented and maintained 5S practices on all assigned production lines.

Applied SMED to remove external setup to reduce rotational molding cycle time.

Installed Kanban to prevent overproduction of in-house rotational molded parts.

Practiced going to the Gemba daily to gain and maintain knowledge of the situation.

Customer-driven Value Analysis tools.

Led Value Analyzed designs that met cost targets and exceeded sales forecasts.

The above Value Analyzed products also reduced indirect operational costs.

Led numerous design, costing, development, testing and release to production projects.

Obtained and maintained CE, CSA, ETL, UL and VDE product safety certifications and listings.

Familiar with Electrical, LP, NG and Oil-fired water heaters through 1,000,000 BTU / hour.

Directed performance and life tests on AC, DC and series universal motors with gearboxes.

Applied PLCs and VFDs to prototype and production testing.

Developed and maintained BOMs, Drawings, Routings and Work Instructions.

Able to communicate with all levels from production workers through management.

Conducted forensic investigations, gave depositions and testified in court.

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Education

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.

Best project

I must give credit to a supplier for inspiring my best project. We had used brand “A” electrical plugs and connectors for many years when a supplier asked us to consider brand “H”. A quick investigation found them to be unacceptable. Shortly thereafter brand “M” was evaluated and found to have superior design, was easier to install and it cost less. Brand “M” was embraced by production and we enjoyed an annual 5-figure cost savings for more than 10 years. After that I replaced the mechanical plugs and connectors with molded versions to improve quality and increase the savings.

Most interesting project

Field complaints initiated my most interesting project. A ball valve was being used to regulate water flow on a floor cleaning machine. The lever on this valve was specially-modified to accept a mechanical linkage from a remote operator’s location. This linkage was not positive and prone to binding due to corrosion. This prompted an idea to use wires to transmit the operator’s selection through a pulse-width modulated driver to a solenoid-operated valve. This project resulted in two US Patents and derivatives of this system are still in use today.

U. S. Patents

5,745,043 Indicator Junction Module 5,797,163 Extraction Machine

6,105,192 Solenoid Valve 6,301,738 Solenoid Valve Kit

6,433,696 CO Monitor 6,493,896 Head Positioning System

6,560,817 Floor Cleaning System 6,982,509 Drip Cover for Polisher

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