Milan Plavsic Mechanical Engineer
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SUMMARY
Mechanical Design Engineer 18 + year’s hands-on experience designing process-specific electromechanical automated packaging system, material handling, and industrial manufacturing/assembling equipment’s. Heavy experience in mechanical and hydraulic presses, fixturing for MFG process. Encompassed design and retrofit of comparative machinery to suit a particular product or applications. Certified Solid Works Professional with a willingness stabilize developed concept design machinery with GDT all parts, provide drawings for Mfg. and BOM, assembly and testing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
R+D Custom Automation Inc. Trevor, WI 01/2022 – 08/2022
Mechanical Design Engineer, Contract job
Developed and designed automation custom machinery for bending steel strips units with universal bending units and
robotic cells using SolidWorks. Created detailed Assembly, parts drawings, and BOMs for manufacturing.
Design units for custom machinery for plastic pouch .Work with team Engineers
Colborne Automation Inc. Lake Forest, IL 01/2020-11/2021
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer. Contract job 02/2019-11/2019
Developed and designed high speed automated packaging machinery wit robot Case Packer.
Designed custom automatic packaging machinery for food industry, with conveyors, heaters. Robot transfers with
several base stations for special presses, mixers heaters, and other process units. Worked closely within a cross-functional
team in the development effort using SolidWorks and CAD.
SEC Design Technologies Inc. Lake Forest IL 02/2018 -01/2019
Mechanical Design Engineer. Contract job
Developed and designed automated custom manufacturing assembly system, testing equipment and material
handling models SolidWorks. Worked closely within a cross-functional team in the development effort.
Nortek Packaging, Schaumburg IL 05/2017- 01/2018
Mechanical Design Engineer,Contract job
Designed automated packaging high speed machinery utilizing Solid Works. Designed packaging machines units, conveyors, carton magazines, rotary feeders, reject stations. Developed and designed packaging machinery for different size pouch.
TISHMA Innovation Packaging System LLC. Schaumburg, IL 05/2015- 03/2017
Mechanical Design Engineer Company sold
Developed and design horizontal packaging high speed automated machinery for packaging food products, using Solid Works and CAD. Developed and design new case packer with a robotic station for several size of packaging products. Redesign and development and machinery for medical product and retrofit for packaging.
PEARLES AV, Aurora IL 08/2011 -01/2015
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Developed and designed MFG equipment for new automated Assembly line in process product SolidWorks
Designed base with fixturing with robot for automation welding. Designed automation Mfg. equipment for separate parts from sheet plate. Designed fixturing for Mfg. process and design progressive die and tool for mechanical presses.
Z Automation Packaging Machinery, Arlington Heights, IL 04/2006- 02/2011
Mechanical Design Engineer
Developed and Designed New custom automated high-speed packaging machinery for packaging medical
products using Solid Works and CAD. Designed new and modified existing module units for cartoners, pick: n: place units,
product tracks carton racks and conveys. Improved machine Shop and assembly department efficiency by over 35%
implementing drawing routing.
L.A.B. Equipment (Noonan Machinery), Itasca, 06/2004- 02/2007
Mechanical Design Engineer
Designed new type vertical and horizontal hydraulic machines with pneumatic fixture for holding product on
platform (pumps. cylinders, valves, hoses, fittings) Completed design from concept to finish including BOMs and testing
using Solid Works, and CAD Design new type heavy machinery equipment’s and machinery for testing products
Designed hydraulic vibration system for testing new products with frequency drive.
Heim Group Inc. Chicago, IL 07/1995 – 03/2004
Manager of Engineering and Mfg. production.
Designed over 150 different models of mechanical presses from 5 to 1500 tons. Designed pneumatic and hydraulics systems for mechanical and hydraulic presses. Designed new heavy Machinery, mechanical presses and hydraulic press and press Brake. Designed new type of air and wet clutch brakes (ACAD LT 2002). Développe and designer new Servo presses new génération. Designer die for punchingball Sheets métal on Machanical presses.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineer (Novi Sad University, Serbia)
Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineer, Not finished officerly (Novi Sad University,}
Certification course for Solid Works (Oakton College). Studies CREO, Inventor and Auto-CAD
Certification course of MTM industrial Mfg. time system.
Certificate for automation, pneumatic and hydraulic system design (Oakton Collage)
SolidWorks, PDM AutoCAD, MS Office, Adobe, Nel Drive.
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