Mechanical Design Industrial Automation

Thor Gustafson

Controls / Industrial Automation/ Manufacturing

Engineer and Manager

PH: 612-***-**** EMAIL: *************@*****.***

Background:

I have over thirty years of experience

inventing, designing, fabricating, programming, troubleshooting, documenting, and managing manufacturing automation engineering projects and associated process development, both special and product line in nature, as well as managing engineering and manufacturing teams involved in such projects. This also includes extensive experience in the field; deploying, troubleshooting, revising and maintaining automation mechanical and control systems, and software, as well as testing and experimenting to develop processes and products.

Software tools:

Highly Proficient in:

AutoCAD (mechanical and electrical design)

Solid works (mechanical design).

SolidCam

Microsoft word, Excel, Access, Visio, Project

Microsoft VB 6 and .NET

ABB Rapid

ABB Robot Studio

Adept V+, AIM and ACE

Allen Bradley Rslogix 500 and Allen Bradley Studio 5000 Siemens TIA Portal

Cognex Insight

GE proficy

Kuka KRL

Staubli VAL3

BobCAD-CAM

Basic Proficiency in:

CREO

Labview

Fanuc Robotics

Kawasaki Robotics

C#

Proven Abilities:

Engineering Management

Product concept development

Manufacturing automation concept development

New system / product design

System architecture design

System mechanical design

Industrial systems engineering calculations (inertias, energy, power, deflections/stresses, ampacities, heat load, etc.) Statistical process control

Industrial automation systems controls software design (Robotics, PLCs, Coordinated Motion, Machine Vision, Instrumentation, Human Machine Interface, etc).

Automation System Fabrication, Debug, and Troubleshooting. Validation documentation development and execution. Embedded Systems development.

Testing, data collection, and analysis.

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Professional Experience.

I have extensive experience managing projects and people to deliver quality products that creatively fill the customer’s Automation needs, while ensuring the ability to produce and deliver them profitably. Detailed Work History Description:

May 2021 to Present:

Cannon Equipment

Position: Controls Engineer- Concept, Design, and Development of systems for automation of grocery order picking, storage and, retrieval, and general logistics automation,

January 2020 to April 2021:

Biolyph LLC

Position: Automation Engineer

Duties:

Concept and design custom automation solutions for internal use for production. Project examples:

Developed concept and design for an automated reagent dispense system as part of lyophilization process. July 2018 to October 2019:

Cantel Medical \ Medivators

Position: Principal Control Systems Engineer

Duties:

1.Upgrade existing processes with state of the art controls solutions. 2.Guide effort to create a supervisory system monitoring and data collection system for production. 3.Develop new test equipment controls for in house use. 4.Train internal resources on controls technology. Project examples:

1.Developed updated controls for existing legacy extrusion equipment. 2.Developed .net based solution for Can Bus controlled test stand for life cycle testing of dosing pumps (64 at a time). 3.Developing plant wide SCADA deployment..

March 2016 to March 2018:

Spotco

Position: Engineering Specialists

Duties:

1.System concept development (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc.) 2.Project Management.

Project examples:

1.Design, Program, and Fabricate Automated User Programmable Gantry Welding systems for Snap-On Tools

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYFxU-v-og&t=18s). 2.Develop new form factors and designs for automated resistance welding equipment. September 2014 to February 2016:

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC

Position: PCI Automation Engineer

Duties:

1.System concept development (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc.) 2.Project Management.

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3.Provide technical and administrative management to other engineering staff. 4.Develop engineering methodologies to facilitate efficient product development. Project examples:

1.Design, Program, and Fabricate Automated loading systems for Carl Zeiss SurfMax surface inspection systems . 2.Develop new form factors of the SurfMax system technology for deployment in new applications. May 2013 to September 2014:

Thor Gustafson, LLC.

Position: Owner

Duties:

1.System concept development (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc.) 2.Project Management (both engineering and business). 3.Provide technical and administrative management to other engineering staff. 4.Develop engineering methodologies to facilitate efficient product development. Project examples:

1.Design, Program, and Fabricate Vision Guided Robotic Microwelding system for Hermetic Switches

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7oM3SONzM).

2.Develop customer software for Resistance weld controller interfaces. 3.Consult on and provide upgrades for existing Automation and Robotic Systems. December 2010 to May 2013:

Durabotics, Inc.

Position: VP of Engineering

Duties:

1.System concept development (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc.) 2.Project Management (both engineering and business). 3.Provide technical and administrative management to other engineering staff. 4.Develop engineering methodologies to facilitate efficient product development. Project examples:

1.Managed the design, build and deployment of several large robotic product palletizing systems 2.Developed product line concepts and alpha designs for high speed robotic collation systems. July 2009 to December 2010:

LOFTech Prototype Manufacturing, LLC

Position: Lead Controls Engineer

Duties:

1.System concept development (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc.) 2.Develop procedures for engineering release and review. 3.Project Management (both engineering and business), Lead Controls Engineer. Project examples:

1.Co-developed concept for, Managed and Developed control systems for numerous proprietary systems (Totaling more than

$2.5M in scope), Including an advanced servo controlled co-extrusion processes. Extrusion Process Project was in excess of

$1M.

January 2006 to July 2009:

Intelligent Automated Machines, Inc.

Position: President

Duties:

1.Machine concept development for IAM’s customers (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc. 2.Project Management (both engineering and business), Design Team Leader, and Lead Programmer. 3.General business management.

Project examples:

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1.Invented, designed, managed, fabricated, programmed and debugged a vision guided security token programming system for Secure Computing Inc.Worked closely with Jon Millssee references, and Daniel Moore of Secure Computing.System implemented utilizing an Adept smart controller with 2 Cobra s800 SCARA robots. Developed system HMI in Visual Basic to communicate directly to the Adept controller via TCP/IP. This was a $250K+ Project. (see appendix B for detailed description).System video viewable on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0TDANmDB20&feature=channel_page 2.Invented, designed, managed and programmed two (2) robotic work cells forVision-ease Lens. Worked Closelywith Chad Schindler (now with Boston Scientific) and Kyle Eggert (now with North Shore Mining)see references. Systemsutilized Adept Robots (5) with vision guidance (including a bifocal detection and reorientation station), GE 9030 PLC and Servos, and GE Proficy HMI’s running on flat panel PC’s. This Project was a $1.1M+ (see appendix B for detailed description).ThisSystem video viewable on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg6CQg75jNg&feature=channel January 1990 to May 2005:

Midmac Systems, Inc., Saint Paul, MN

Position: Project Manager / Project Engineer

Supervisors: Timothy Hedlund, Theodore Jagger

Duties:

1.Participated in Machine concept development for Midmac’s customers (including pricing and concept design, modeling, proposal composition, etc.).

2.Project Management (engineering), Mechanical and Electrical System design, and programming. 3.Participated in and lead numerous validation efforts for Pharma and Medical Device projects, developing and executing PQ, IQ, OQ, FAT an SATs for and with customers.

A few project examples:

1.Technical Project Manager and Lead Controls Engineer on Roller Bottle drug batching systems built forAmgenandOrtho Biologic. Systems, inoculated, harvested and “fed”2 liter polycarbonate roller bottle for the growth of genetically modified cells for the production of anti cancer drugs. Designed and programmed machine control systems, human interface, and robotics. Also performed initial experiments on dispense volume control, managed system mechanical and electrical debug, calculated inertias for critical rotary motions and drivetrains, and participated in validation documentation development and implementation. These systems were over $2 M and $4.5 in scope, respectively.One of these systems’ video is viewable on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPebBeyp6yE

2.Also Managed or co-managed no less than 10 projects of $200K or more (up to $4.5M, as well as mechanically engineered and designed (solely) no less than eight systems of $200K or more, while Performing controls design, programming and debug ( both mechanical and electrical ) on no less than 20 systems of $200k or more.Addition example videoof a couple of these systems on Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpsJvGZbNsc Education

1985 – 1987 Northwestern Electronics Institute, Minneapolis MN: Electronics, Industrial controls. GPA 3.5 Studies included basic electrical/electronics theory, amplifier design, pulse circuitry design, digital logic design, microprocessor architecture, assembly code, Basic, and Pascal programming. Industrial controls theory. 1984 – Minnetonka High school, Minnetonka MN – College preparatory coursework, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Calculus. CLEP equivalency of 10 credits in Physics, Chemistry, and Calculus, each. Independent study of Mechanical engineering principles, statistics, etc. as part of my career inventing, engineering, designing, programming and debugging custom industrial automated machinery and robotics. Study of project management ala Kerzner.

Ongoing training in support of proficiencies listed. Thor Gustafson Page4 09/03/2021

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