43 years of experience!
I provide consulting services extending to nearly every facet of this discipline.
I specialize in providing expertise.
If your customers desire improved quality, maybe you need a little help with
Diamond Tool Geometry, or improved fixturing, or process changes.
Sometimes your Diamond Point Turning (DPT) machine(s) may need a “tune-
up.” Allow an experienced consultant to examine each DPT machine: a) where
it is placed, b) checking its connection to the floor and to the support systems,
c) is its “set-up” optimized?
I find that most employers would like their Diamond Turning and/or Flycutting department to benefit from a 4 or 8-hour “teaching session.” This is good for centralizing all their experience.
Whatever your special “niche” market focus, I can adjust the training session(s) to be most informative in the different subjects that should be taught to augment that area! But there are some basic subjects that need to be taught so your foundation is strong and complete.
I maintain that anyone who interfaces with this Diamond-Turning department should also be allowed to attend. Why?
-Purchasing may want to hear about diamond-cutting tools, so they will know why they are being asked to get these tools sharpened or re-radiused. Maybe they want to know if there is a better sharpener for a given task?
-Maintenance may want to know what to be on the lookout for and what planned maintenance, where production machines must be taken out of service, will be the most beneficial.
-Facilities will want to know how best to support an “Ultra-Precision machining center.”
-Your Machine Shop should know what common practices to avoid when preparing “blanks.”
-Inspection or Quality Assurance may be the support service with the most questions.
I am one who can inspect your facilities and then provide a list of things to consider, and why.
INVOLVED WITH:
- Operating the equipment, making the parts, testing the parts.
- Competing against other optics manufacturers.
- Repairing, moving, and upgrading the facilities, the equipment and the processes.
- Designing and building new equipment (both for manufacturing
and testing). - Performing and documenting detailed research such as (but not
limited to) Small Business Innovative Research Grants; Phase I
and Phase II. - Designing Tooling and Fixturing.
- Working as a Sales Engineer, converting customer requests and
dreams into reality. - Engineering a production facility, Managing the Maintenance
group and the Machine Shop. - Studying the production characteristics of the materials,
Studying the diamond. - Project Management of a $550,000 machine upgrade.
Automation, Robotics.