Ron Odom

About Ron Odom

I have been working as a machining engineer at Trijicon Inc. in Wixom, MI since March 2015. Great organization. Started my manufacturing engineering consulting business up again after Grupo Antolin. I am representing some very fine tool shops in USA, Canada, and European. Please review my website. Recently retired from Group Antolin. The last three years I had been working for Grupo Antolin in Canton, Michigan. I helped launched the C346 Ford Focus, C344 Ford C Max, Expedition, Navigator, F150 head liner programs. We made extensive changes to the plant layout and plant equipment. Maintenance downtime has been greatly reduced through adding personnel, improving repair parts inventory, implementing a computerized maintenance management system. Preventative and predictive maintenance activities were added to daily duties of maintenance technicians.Before Grupo Antolin, I was setting up factories for Johnson Controls Inc. North America. Tooled most of all the equipment for Johnson Controls Inc.\'s seating assembly division for last ten years.Moved complete plants across the country to setup a new plants for new truck and car programs. Controlled the flow and inventory and repair of all used equipment for the Johnson Controls seat assembly division. Understand Best Business Practices with respect to factors to improve safety, employee relationships, improving efficiencies, inventories, and improving profit levels.Specialties: Welding, time studies, machine design, electrical design, PLCs, Catia, Autocad, process flows, machine safety, PFMEA, project estimates, metal forming, stamping, painting, chemical treatment, silver soldering, heat treatment, layout, quality experience, production manager experience. Set up factories all over the US, Mexico, and Canada. Very experienced in \"Just In Time\" manufacturing and best business practices.Previous owner of a tube fabrication company. Engineering manager of three different tube fabricating companies.

Experience

1. Manufacturing Engineer Maintenance Manager

   Antolin

   Jan 2010 — Present · Canton, MI, US

   Maintenance supervisor and lead manufacturing engineer for Grupo Antolin Wayne. Manufacturer of headliners for the Expedition/Navigator, Ford Focus, Ford C-Max, and Ford F150. Manage seven electrical and mechanical technicians. Developed and implemented new assembly lines and product launches. Work closely with engineering manager, production manager, materials manager, quality manager, and plant manager.Completely revamped the F150 line. Removed poorly designed and old equipment with new ergonomically friendly equipment and twin strand transfer lines. Added pre-assembly stations, pallet transfer, revamped complete vision system, added third transfer line and glue robot. Completely revamped six vision inspections stations and made improvement to electrical test station.Expedition line- completely revamped the controls system for this line. Removed third party \"Summit\" system and install new main AB Contrologix PLC controller to help implement new \"Blade\" system. Remove old camera inspection system and installed new Dalsa system.C346-C344 Focus and C-max- completely revamped control system and added an additional wire harness system on the C-max to allow the line to hit rate. Revamped vision system program for C-Max along program for controlling robot HIC cell and controlling the remaining assembly stationson the line.Implemented complete new CMM system for maintenance department. Reduced downtime greatly.Hired new team and improved output of older staff.Corporate Console Cell- Completely revamped the vision program for the consoles. Implemented \"Blade\" system and remove older third party \" Summit\" system.

Education

• Western Michigan University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

  1970 — 1974

• Western Michigan University

  BSME, Mechanical Engineer

  1970 — 1974

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Root Cause Analysis
• Dfmea
• Poka Yoke
• Autocad
• Automation
• Iso
• Tqm
• Toyota Production System
• Injection Molding
• Jit
• Automotive
• Automotive Engineering
• Equipment Maintenance
• Test Equipment
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Ts16949
• Process Engineering
• Pfema
• Gd&T
• Ilvs
• Capital Equipment
• Ppap
• Design for Manufacturing
• Lead Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Engineering Management
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Electronics
• Plant Layout
• Engineering
• Spc
• Manufacturing Operations
• Dmaic
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Stamping
• Kaizen
• Pfmea