Bruce Adams

Over 25 years experience in manufacturing, industrial & quality engineering, production & supervision, plant layout & line flow, new product development, liaison, tooling & design primarily in aircraft, missiles, power supplies, ruggedized computers, printers, electronic & electro-mechanical assemblies. Extensive hands-on experience in wave solder, SMT, cable & harness design, MRB, MRP, time standards & cost estimating. ISO 9000, IPC 610 Classes. Have working knowledge of AutoCAD 2002, MS Office, SAP, Oracle & other ERP software systems. Electronic Technician Certificate, Connecticut School of Electronics. Private pilot. Veteran USAF.

New Product Development of aircraft engine speed sensors, temperature, and pressure sensors, cables and harnesses for GE F-22 aircraft engines. Worked with design engineers, production, quality, purchasing and tool design. Wrote Work Insructions, BOMs & and specifications. These included brazing, welding, soldering, coil winding, impregnation of compounds, oven curing, leak testing, and tool and fixture design. Generated DFSS and PFMEA spread sheets. Supervised production personnel on assembly. Subimitted 1st articles to QA for buy-off.

New Product Introduction of printed circuit boards and electronic assemblies for contract pc board manufacturer. Wrote assembly processes and BOM,'s using Valor and Agile s/w. Sign off with QE for incoming vendor components. Root Cause and analysis on quality defects. Heavy floor support. Part of team sent to Goodrich Aerospace, Vergennes, VT for transition of customers products to Sparton.

New Product Introduction of power supplies for DoD. Wrote assembly processes, tooling and BOM's for
Hi-Rel printed circuit boards and chassis. Used Corel Designer 12, Paint Shop Pro 8 and digital pictures for operation sheets.

Wrote electrical and structural operation sheets with sketches and pictures for modifications & upgrades for E-2C, F-5 and F-18 aircraft. Processed EO's for same. Wrote & answered Trouble & Answer Reports.

Hands on floor support for SMT lines C and D running Enterprise, EWSD & Accession tele-communications products.
Responsibilities included writing routers, BOM's and process details including visual aids (digital camera) for PC boards and modules. Input to SAP & AMS ERP systems. Sign off on new products for DFM. Solved production and wave solder problems. Designed production tooling. ISO 9002.
Attended latest IPC-A-610B class.

Pilot start up of 60 different PC board assemblies for LTX (customer). Develop routers, instructions, visual aids, and specify related tooling for component prep, board prep, axial & DIP insertion, pick & place, ovens, wave solder, post solder and final assembly. Bring pilot runs into production phase by having process owners, QA & plant manager sign off on BOM's, routers, visual aids & operation sheets. Direct customer interface. Other customers included DeLaRue, Pole Zero and Tecom.

Set up wave solders machine, ECD washer & dryer, wire cutting and Amp crimp machines for the manufacture of high speed thermal printers and ruggedized computers & peripherals. Wrote process sheets (routers), Detailed Manufacturing Instructions and ECO's . Member of MRB. Interface with engineering, purchasing, quality, production and planning.

Responsible for the printed circuit board and the cable and harness departments. Hands on floor support. Wrote M & IR's (operation sheets), PCN's, purchase req's, and process for new Electrovert AquaStorm 200 aqueous cleaner. Quote labor, material and tooling for bid proposals. Solve production problems on start-up programs. Design production fixtures and tooling. Equipment included Electrovert Econ-o-Pak wave solder & Schleuniger wire cutter. Weekly TQM meetings on RTM (resin transfer molding) problems. New product starts up, ICAM (Improved Chemical Agent Monitor). Class 10,000 clean room. Laser optics. Vision MRP II system.

Floor support, PMRB (Pre Material Review Board), new program introduction, tooling & fixture design in SMT dept. for Longbow, Javelin, Lantirn, E2C & other programs. Wrote new processes, & M.O.I.'s. Incorporate NOR's in MPP's. Liaison with QE, TE, IE, PC, production, program management, DPRO, purchasing, maintenance & design. Equipment included Zevatech & Phillips pick & place, Centronics IR oven, Corpane vapor phase reflow degreaser. Detrex AVD. Incorporate SPC on E2C program.

Design cables, harnesses & harness boards using Acad R12 for ship's bridges, Laser Ring Gyro, etc. Generate cut and run sheets. Floor support on cables & harnesses.

Wrote assembly processes and took 35mm photos for assembly visual aids of PC desktop & rack mounted modems, routers, etc. These processes included assembly, test and burn-in thru finished goods. Analyzed, ordered & implemented production tooling for high speed assembly lines. Hands on floor support. Nine SMT lines with DEC screen printers, Panasert pick & place and chip shooters, Centronic ovens and Soltec wave solder machines.

Wrote AIO's (Assembly Inspection Operations) with graphics on HP Apollo workstation with Domain O/S and MODS software for printed circuit boards and electro-mechanical assemblies. Hands on floor support. These processes were modifications for ADCAP (Additional Capabilities) MK 48 torpedoes, to MIL-STD-2000. Specified & ordered associated tooling and fixtures.