Andrew Crask
Lawrenceburg,KY
Summary
Results-driven Industrial Maintenance Technician with NSG Group, skilled in troubleshooting complex mechanical and electrical systems. Comfortable with PLC and robotics, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with teams, ensuring safety compliance and optimizing machinery performance. Strong problem-solving skills complemented by a commitment to excellence.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Industrial Maintenance Technician
NSG Group
10.2016 - Current
- Conducted preventive maintenance on machinery to ensure optimal performance and minimize downtime.
- Collaborated with production teams to resolve equipment issues swiftly and enhance operational efficiency.
- Executed technical troubleshooting for mechanical systems, electrical issues, hydraulic presses, pneumatic systems, and identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
- Monitored safety compliance for equipment operations, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and safety protocols.
- Troubleshot automated systems using PLCs.
- Repaired robotic system failures, mastered and calibrated Fanuc robots, updated revolution counters for ABB robots, repaired robot tooling, and changed out servo motors.
- Followed work orders and specifications for machine and equipment replacement, repair, or maintenance.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Industrial Maintenance Technician
Bluegrass Community And Technical College
Danville, KY05-2016
Skills
- Lockout and tagout procedures
- Electrical troubleshooting using conveyor systems, AC/DC motors, shuttle transfer and grinding automation, robotic pick and place applications, bando equipment, and PLC troubleshooting
- Mechanical troubleshooting using drive belts, chain drives, gearboxes, pulleys, sheaves, motors, drive shafts/drive rolls, and conveyor belts
- Pneumatic systems using solenoid operated DCVs, single coil/double coil, spring return and detent, troubleshooting the operation of DCV with vacuum and blow applications, cylinder operation using flow controls, and vacuum switches
- Robotics troubleshooting and repairs using Fanuc and ABB systems Troubleshooting different fault codes and swapping out servo amplifiers Mastering and calibrating the fanuc robots, repairing robot tooling, changing out servo motors, updating revolution counters for the ABB robots, and repairing robot tooling, and comfortable using teach pendants and flex pendants
- PLC troubleshooting using TI (serial communication), RSlogix 5000, and RSlogix 5 (remote communication), experience in reading logic to help find the causes of breakdown or communication issues
- Bando Experience (CNC), able to troubleshoot multi-axis machining applications, experience with troubleshooting and changing out Power-flex 525 drives, Omron drives, Fanuc drives, and Kinetix drives (5500 and 6000), and replacing 1394 axis modules
Certification
ABB Robotics training- 4 day (8hr training sessions)
ABB Robotics Certificate
- Learned how to navigate flex pendant.
- Take and pass a written exam.
- Updating revolution counters (using witness marks)
- Able to write program instructions for the robot application (robot had to grab a pen using the gripper tool and draw a perfect circle and return pen to cup then return to home position).
Timeline
Industrial Maintenance Technician
NSG Group
10.2016 - Current
Associate of Applied Science - Industrial Maintenance Technician
Bluegrass Community And Technical College