Luis Soriano

Manufacturing Engineer @Samuel Heath

Birmingham, GB

Work with the production teams to develop cost-effective solutions for NPI & current products that meet the requirements of the design and quality standards.• Use ‘Design for Manufacture’ principles to ensure components & products can be made effectively.• Working with the Design & Production teams to identify and produce tooling, jigs, fixtures and gauges required to support manufacturing.• Develop continuous improvements to live product designs to overcome production/quality problems and/or reduce cost, primarily in Stage 1.• Investigate production processes to improve efficiencies and reduce material costs in new and current products.• Research & develop new technologies to enhance our manufacturing capabilities and product offering and pull together information related to associated capex cases.• Creating specials & prototypes to support the NPI process.• Management & control of 3D printing machine & processes.• Responsibility for the development of the CAM system & rollout.• Day-to-day management of CAD/CAM Setter/Programmer.• Involvement in tooling specification & management for CNC machines.• Support design and customer reviews and other meetings as required.• Support the creation of SOP’s and Manufacturing Instruction/Documentation for use in the Manufacturing Data package to enable the Production Team to make the product accurately on the shop floor.• Train employees on the production method required for new products and product changes.

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

University of Birmingham

Master of Science (MSc)

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering