Mechanical Design
including, but not limited to:
- Plastic injection molding (over-molding)
- Metal castings (steel, aluminum, iron)
- Sheet metal (stamped, formed parts)
- Welded assemblies (steel, aluminum, titanium)
- Metal forming (tubes, deep-draw stamping)
- Extrusion dies (metal, plastic)
- Computer / electronic controlled hydraulic control systems (robotics)
- Assembly design (multiple part interaction, 100+ part assembly design)
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Stress / Strain
- Factor of Safety
- Material Yield / Ultimate Strength, fatigue
- Material selection / optimization
- Manufacturability / Cost Analysis
- Failure analysis
- Intra-business
- Document control creation / process
- Product / Project management
- Software training
- Inter-business
- Vendor relations (domestic / international selection)
- Quality control analysis
- Vendor communications (domestic / international)
- 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD)
- Solidworks 2008 – licensed and trained; primary software
- AutoCAD – experienced use
- ProEngineer – experienced use
- COSMOSWorks 2008 – Design Validation, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Mechanical Assembly Motion Analysis
- PDMWorks 2008 – Product Data Management, document revision control
