What I do?

Injection and tooling development engineering (R&D)

• Responsible for injection process and tooling development of auto interiors and exteriors products from 400 to 3200 ton clamping force (150 – 3800 g)
• Tooling start up and definition of corrective actions and timings to convergence to the final part and tooling quality
• Adding added value to tooling purchasing by calculation of the cost of modifications and lead time definition
• Polymeric materials training (Thermoplastics and Thermosets) – choice, characteristics, differences
• Injection process training – one gate as well as multi gate processes, injection process issues troubleshooting
• Injection tooling training – tool concept, part design influence, tooling issues troubleshooting

Injection process and launch engineering (Operations)

• Responsible for improvement of scrap and downtimes (50 – 2300 ton machines and 5 – 1800 g products) of interior components.
  • Definition of corrective actions
  • Customer audit preparation and participation
  • Division work stream leader (injection production department)
• Definition of new projects characteristics (tool layout, number of cavities, clamping force, cycle time, materials).

Injection and tooling development team leadership (R&D management):

• Responsible for injection and tooling team development
  • KPIs definition and follow up
  • Training
  • Couching
  • Inspiring and inspiration system definition
  • New projects injection, tooling and equipment relevant CAPEX definition
  • Customer design for manufacturing consultations and negotiations
  • Tooling suppliers development
  • Tooling standardization
  • Production bench mark mindset development