Machine and instrumentation design; plasticating screw and feed system design; on-line simulation and control; polymer rheology; additive manufacturing processes and design guidelines.
Product design and manufacturing process development, especially related to polymer processing such as injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, and thermoforming;
Mechanical design including concept design, materials selection, layout design, stress and thermal analysis, detailed design, assembly, fits and tolerances, testing, failure analysis;
Design for manufacturing and assembly including needs analysis, specification, process selection, cost and value analysis, robust design, quality function deployment, design of experiments, response surface analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, and design for X (machining, molding, assembly, etc.);
Simulation including constitutive modeling of materials, development and solution of differential equations using finite difference and finite element methods, numerical methods, sensitivity analysis, stochastic and Monte Carlo methods, and interfaces;
Manufacturing process development including system decomposition, axiomatic systems design, partitioning, process instrumentation, signal conditioning, data acquisition, systems integration, hierarchical control systems, development and tuning of control laws, validation, commissioning, deployment, and training;
Operations management including manufacturing strategy, forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory control, supply chain management, production control systems, operations scheduling, project scheduling, facilities design, quality and assurance, lean;
Software development including ANSI C, C++, Visual C#, Visual Basic, Fortran, MySQL, Java, Javascript, PHP, Pascal, LabView, and others.
