Manufacturing Fuel Injectors
I was a full-time co-op at Bosch for 9 months. To my surprise the role of an engineer is far more managerial than I anticipated. It makes a lot of sense when you truly think about it. Manufacturing involves the production of a product which has already been designed, hence as a manufacturing engineer you hold a position akin to engineering-manager for an aspect of production. However, the projects I worked on varied in skills. From designing fixtures and procedures, analyzing throughput and writing operation instructions, I was required to grow a diverse set of hard skills.
Reduced downtime by analyzing throughput data and determining the optimal production schedule to decrease changeover duration.
Redesign of the press-out mechanism in SolidWorks to address root causes of failure identified through Finite Element Analysis, improving the Factor of Safety from 0.76 to 1.52 and reducing measurement variation in destructive weld tests.
Designed and built a safety interlock for a force press machine, requiring dual hand activation to ensure operator safety.
Reduced scrap caused by injector leakage by decreasing contamination by developing a wash process for workpiece carriers.