Jonathan — Robotics Engineer

Robotics & Controls Systems | Troy, Michigan ● Commissioning and optimizing industrial robots for Body-in-White (BIW) production lines (including rivet and flow drill screw). ● Contract based projects and travelling to different manufacturing plants. ● Ensuring robots are programmed to the customer's standard specification.

Led the robotics engineering for the BIW factory utilizing technologies including spot welding, mig welding, stud welding, laser cutting, dispense, machine vision, and rack pick/drop. Supporting all project phases including feasibility, specification, installation, and startup. Automated data extraction, transformation, and visualization of robotics production data using Power BI and Power Query. Responsible for connecting the plant to other plants in the group, ensuring the standard, providing knowledge and expertise for the local team as well as sharing good practices to the technology network. Performed root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities to increase reliability and robustness. Simulated and integrated robotics systems, optimized operations, connected I/O, and assessed reachability. Documented training material related to the equipment and software specific to the site to train others. Implemented vision on a training robot for researching possible use cases. Conducted 3D scanning and processing of the data to create point clouds of factory and equipment.

Robotics & Controls Systems | Troy, Michigan ● Optimized cycle times by changing robot paths, moving welds to other processes, improving robot software working with PLC programmers to optimize communication and more. ● Commissioned body-in-white equipment; servo weld guns, glue systems, stud welding, MIG welding, projection nut welding, tool changing, material handling, tip dressers, tip changers, ethernet/profinet switches. ● Developed PLC - robot communication methods during commissioning of new lines. ● Delivered training and ongoing support to customers, ensuring they understood robot cell functionality. ● Provided on-call technical support and responded to field issues, ensuring quick resolution of equipment issues.