SORIN NICOLESCU

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Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

Accomplished sr. mechanical design engineer with over 15 years experience designing, developing, and implementing automatic equipment used for manufacturing industrial brushes and high tech manufacturing of electronic equipment. Over 3 years of process management experince. Experience managing capital projects from start to finish, detail-oriented and passionate innovator with a record of implementing inventive solutions for technical challenges. Hands on experience using 3D Solidworks

CORE COMPETENCIES

Machine Design Tolerance Analysis Project Management

Design Software Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Pneumatics and Hydraulics

Engineering Documentation Process Improvement Process Manufacturing

Product Development Lean Manufacturing Robotics

EXPERIENCES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENTS, BINGHAMTON, NY 2017-CURENT

A global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced automation and assembly equipment

Solutions for the electronics manufacturing industry.

Sr. Mechanical Engineer and team leader of the Thru-Hole group

tManage company –level projects, review specification, maintain schedule, validate release documentation, and communicate with production control and manufacturing. Create accurate solid models and assemblies using Solidworks and Creo CAD system. Interact with outside vendors for components selection, manufacturing and assembly. Generate and process ECR documentation

tSoft Clinch tooling project (patent pending). Develop and Design a new concept for Radial machine clinch head tool that reduces the pull force on component leads insertion, and reduces cost by multifunctional configurations.

tRotary table air motor improvements. Adding a lubrication system for high speed air motor capable of indexing the rotary table in less of one second/90 degrees.

tRadial machine Precision Insertion Pusher. Using Vespal 22 plastic material designing a square bearing for a precision pusher that inserting the electronic component with very high speed up to 22000cph without lubrication and with few thousands precision on location.

tWorking with production department to solve machine assembly issues and driven continuous improvements

WEILER CORPORATION, Cresco, PA 1996 – 2017

A leading provider of abrasives, power brushes, and maintenance products for surface conditioning.

Group Leader Mechanical Engineer 2015 - 2017

Oversee all aspects of the design engineering department. Responsible for specifying, concept design, fabrication and commission of custom equipment and tooling for manufacturing industrial power brushes and abrasive products.

tRecent designed workcenter running in production, consisting of two machines, each one with 8 servo controlled axis, that feeds a performed disc from a magazine, also steel wires from a spool and automatically twisting the wires into a brush. The servo controlled electrical system used is Trio controlled and Kollmorgen servo motors and drives. PHD and Festo pneumatics

tAn automatic final assembly machine consisting of 6 station index table, 3 parts feeders, one Universal U5 ROBOT for pick and place the parts from the feeders on the index drive tooling. A high precision 3 axis servo controlled 15 tons hydraulic press that finish the assembling of the brushe. Two vision system are used to orient the parts before the robot pick and place the parts form feeders on the index table tooling. High accuracy system exeeding 0.002 of an inch position repeatability. In line pin stamper unit for part identification. The workcenter delivers a finished product every 19 seconds reducing the labor cost by 50%

tMajor project upgrading manufacturing existing equipment by adding single minute die exchange (SMED) concept for over 200 die set tooling. Conducting 5s audits and “kaisen” studies for continuous improvments.

tUsing Solidworks 3D CAD software to design simgle amd double action dieset tooling

tCapable running basic machine shop equipment

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer 2003 – 2015

tHands on experience with machine shop equipment and all aspects of parts and sub assemblies fabrication including welding.

tImproved operational efficiency by modifying existing machines and tools for safety, resulting in work centers with labor efficiency over 90%.

tDesigned carbide tooling that increase the life of the tool between sharpening 12 times.

Project Engineer, Mechanical Engineer 1996 - 2003

TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS

Advanced 3D SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), FEA software, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance ANSI Y14.5 GD&T Standards.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Electrical Engineering Masters Coursework, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania

6S, SMED

Continuous Improvements, and Value Stream Map (VSM) Training, Weiler Corporation

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