Brian Knapp
- Role
- Director, Na Manufacturing Engineering, Prototype and Special Products Operations at Tenneco
- Location
- Brooklyn, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brian Knapp
Specialties: Project/Launch management. Capital planning and…
Experience
Director, Na Manufacturing Engineering, Prototype and Special Products Operations
Oct 2016 — Present
Leading Tenneco North America Clean Air (NACA) manufacturing strategies, flawless launch, and advanced manufacturing through: Prototype and Special Product Operations -Low volume and non-automotive business growth. Core Competency Teams(Welding, Bending, Converter, Muffler, Tubing, Tooling, Final Assembly)-Standardization of Product, Process, Equipment and Tooling -Network Strategy Optimization Launch Engineering -Industrialization -Gate deliverable excellence -Flawless launch Advance Manufacturing Engineering -Process technology roadmaps-Advance process development Engineering Services -Robot engineering launch/production support team -GD & T engineering -Industrial engineering -Controls engineering
Education
Grand Valley State University
BSE, Manufacturing Engineering
2000 — 2005
Grand Valley State University
Bachelor's of Science in Engineering
Skills
- Apqp
- Engineering
- Ppap
- Machine Tools
- Spc
- Fmea
- Material Flow
- Value Stream Mapping
- Lean Manufacturing
- Toyota Production System
- 5s
- Welding
- Kanban
- Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
- Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
- Business Process Improvement
- Design for Manufacturing
- Process Improvement
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
- Continuous Improvement
- Statistical Process Control (Spc)
- Gd&T
- Dfmea
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