Michael Van Dresar

We are mainly a robotic plant with a few manual lines. We performed changeovers on all the lines. This would include tooling changes, setting the robots up, and assure the lines were ready for production. I have 4 techs on my team, so i would assign lines accordingly to my techs strength, depending on changeovers and the priority of the lines. My personal job duties include, making sure all the lines are performing at a high level. More importantly making sure the staff is staying on task, and working in a safe manner. At CCB we have several robots to maintain. We also work with conveyors and many different sizes of belted conveyors. We perform preventive maintenance on the weekends to the lines that are not running. We work with glue systems, code daters, drives, encoders, barcode readers, just to name a few. At the end of the shift I will perform a brief with details of the work performed on our shift.

Ran several various machines. Making circuit breakers from start to finish. Also would set the lines up if a C/O was needed.

At amana we built several different sizes and styles of refrigerators. It was a fast paced environment that required the use of many different tools.

Worked on many different lines producing hams. Starting from raw material all the way to the cook.