Dipl.-Ing. James Kuligoski

Consulted on a short-term project to incorporate electronics and add automation into a traditionally stationary item.

-Created First Article Inspection Reports from customer supplied engineering -Created Final Inspection Plans -Compiled monthly status reports for upper management, reporting the number of parts written up for non-conformances, shipping info, warranty claim info, and first pass yield -Collected/reviewed non-conformance data to find the top hitting defects to focus on fixing the root cause -Designed and built a two-bin kanban system, reducing the cycle time and increasing output

-Participated in 5S events -Improved a lock groove design that was failing push out -Wrote rework dispositions for non-conforming parts -Wrote Keyence programs for Quality, decreasing the amount of time spent on inspecting parts -Performed various strength tests, including push out strength, break load, tensile, and shear

-Wrote manufacturing processes for the technicians to assemble parts -Led the Total Productive Maintenance/Preventative Maintenance team to track and decrease the amount of downtime each piece of equipment had to experience -Participated in a 5S event -Participated in a 3P event -Led an experiment to improve the function of a twist mirror