Expert Details
Packaging Machinery, Automatic Cartoning, Casepacking
ID: 726391
Minnesota, USA
He is very familiar with a wide variety of packaging materials as well as with the manufacturing techniques and major manufacturers in the USA.
He has sold, built and installed many casepacking machines
He is very familiar with different types of glue used in packaging closures, how to apply them at low or high speeds and how to apply compression needed to make the glue absorb into the substructure on both chip board and corrugated material.
He can aid in package cost reduction in the areas of waste elimination, transportation vs. on site manufacturing from the suppliers. A common problem with a lot people who use corrugate.
Expert manages a firm with many years of expierience in these areas.
We have been asked by many companies to give written reports on the performance, including downtime, uptime and throughput and finding out areas of improvement.
He can act as the inbetween person to bring together the correct material manufacturer and the correct machinery manufacturer as he knows almost all of them in the United States.
He is familiar with many manufacturing processes as he has traveled and visited thousands of sites in the last 26 years.
He is dedicated to keeping up with the current packaging technologies.
Helped A midsize health food company in the procurement, linelayout and installation of a complete packaging solution consisting of dry filling equipment, labeling, induction sealing, capping, case ercting, case sealing and pallet layout.Helped every process cheese company in the USA automate the product handling and cartoning of the large Sams Club style IWS cheese cartons by eliminating 4 people per shift and cartoning it automatically. It also eliminated the the possibilty of carpal tunnel syndrome. We found that the standard machines available were much too large so we developed our own, which is now the standard in the industry.Developed an infinitely adjustable glue application machine which is PC-based to apply glue to corrugated flats. This machine is used by corrugated box makers to form foam-lined boxes for many different applications. It sped up the process by 5 times and eliminated some labor.Developed a machine to assemble metal channels into foam blocks and apply a bar code label automatically. This machine saved 6 people per shift.Developed a machine to apply invoices to boxes on an assembly line. This saved labor and increased speed as well as getting hot melt glue away from line personel who were constantley burning themselves with the 350 degree glue.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1983 | Degree: Bachelor of Arts | Subject: Geography | Institution: U of Minnesota Duluth |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1984 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:To help small and large companies automate the end of line packaging. To increase speed, efficiencies, product throughput through automation. Consuling with start up to large companies helping them with engineering equipment procurment, Line layout and start up assistance. From 1983 - 1996 he was a manufacturer's representative with over 40 lines of equipment .from 1997-2009. He has been a consultant and manufacturer of custom automation equipment. |
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Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert in OSHA safety requirments, machinery guarding, and safety as is required electronically on larger pieces of machinery. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| He was a manufacturers representative for over 13 years and has attented the pack expo and pack expo west trade shows on a regular basis. He knows all the major manufacturers in the packaging machinery fields |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Food, pharmacutical, medical and manufacturing of all types. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| The ability to build custom machinery. The ability to oversee a large project and see it to the end by putting together a team of other professionals in the required related aspects of the specific projects. |
Fields of Expertise
automation technology, boxboard, cardboard, corrugated boxboard, corrugated carton, corrugated packaging material, package, food package, case packing, package closure, package cost reduction, packaging engineering, food packaging equipment, package design, package handling, packaging equipment, packaging automation, packaging evaluation, packaging machine, packaging machinery design, packaging machine performance, packaging material, packaging process, packaging technology, packaging material selection, filling machine, rigid packaging material, packaging development, food packaging process