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Advanced Manufacturing Systems is much more than just a designer and manufacturer of advanced pulsed MIG and automation products. Meet the AMS experts with the arc welding knowledge and experience that can be part of your arc welding solution. We know that in today's fast paced high production manufacturing industries that sometimes drawing from outside experts can bring in the most creative and innovative solutions that contribute to your bottom line. Let us help evaluate your production arc welding applications and share our insight. Contact any of us to find out more.
From winning a Vocational Industrial Clubs of America state award in electronics to today's position as AMS Business Unit Manager, Tim Temby brings a diverse background in management, sales, automation, service and support to the position. His mission is to help manufacturers reduce their cost associated with welding through process innovation and automation, an objective he understands well through his own experience managing Miller's production of welding systems and three years as a Miller Automation Account Manager. Tim began his career at Miller in 1988 after receiving an Associate degree in Electronic Technology from Fox Valley Technical College. After five years as a Technical Representative for Miller Service and Applications (and receiving a degree in welding from FVTC), Tim became Technical Support Manager. After receiving his Bachelor's in Business Management from Silver Lake College, Tim's roles at Miller included three years as Automation Account Manager, two years as a District Manager and one year as Business Unit Manager for three-phase welding systems. Lured away briefly, Tim was also the Sales Manager for Interstate Welding before returning to Miller as the General Manager for the Manufacturing Industries Group. Tim now leads the broader organization in his role as Group Vice President of the Industrial Systems Group.
Knut Froland is the Manufacturing Industries Group Business Development Manager. He is a seasoned business-to-business sales and marketing professional with over 25 years of experience in the manufacturing and distribution environments. Knuts experience has predominantly been with industrial companies, including Pioneer Metal Finishing, the largest job shop metal finisher in the United States, Krueger International (KI), a $700 million manufacturer of commercial office furniture, and Imperial Supplies a national distributor of industrial repair parts. Beginning his career as a distributor salesperson, Knut was promoted to positions of increasing responsibility. His diverse background in both sales and marketing allowed him to effectively leverage both skill sets to help drive growth within the companies for which he worked. Prior to joining Miller Electric Manufacturing, Knut served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Pioneer Metal Finishing Corporation. Prior to that he served as the Vice President of Marketing for KI. Knut has significant experience in selling through distribution. While at KI, he built a market-focused team of nearly 70 independent distributors, which resulted in sales growth of 60+% over two years. The growth of a strong distributor network was integral to the success of the overall sales and marketing strategies. Over his career, Knut has managed a diverse range of business functions, including market and product management, communications, telesales, cataloging, public relations, market research, tele-based lead generation, customer relationship management, customer service, pricing, and more. Frolands education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh.
AMS Welding Engineer Kevin Summers provides a unique combination of leadership—he has a Masters degree in Organizational Leadership and Quality from Marion College—and welding process knowledge: his customized pulsed MIG aluminum weld program set a world record 73,993 arc starts on a single contact tip using a push-only feeding system. Kevin holds a Bachelors of Science in Welding Engineering from Utah State University and, after graduating in 1996, he joined Miller as a Welding Engineer. He has extensive experience developing process variables for large clients, including John Deere, GM, Ford and numerous Tier-1 suppliers. An AWS certified welding educator, Kevin routinely conducts formal training seminars to help Miller customers understand and implement new welding equipment and processes. This includes implementing training programs on Fanuc, Motoman, ABB and OTC robots to write custom pulse welding programs for at least 15 major manufacturers. He is a member of the AWS D16 Committee on Robotic and Automatic Welding, skilled in crisis management and fluent in Italian.
Territory: Upper Midwest Curt Beck, now Regional Account Manager with AMS covering the Midwest, began working for Miller while still in high school as a welder on our manufacturing line during the summer, then working full time upon graduation. Since then, he has identified opportunities for improvement and engineered creative welding solutions for hundreds of companies in his roles as Industrial Product Specialist (three years experience), District Manager (five years) and Welding Technician for Miller's applications engineering group (five years). While familiar with many different industries, Curt's Midwest location gives him extensive experience working with manufacturers of agricultural and construction equipment, including Bobcat, Deere and Case IH. His process development experience includes researching pulse wave form control loops and microprocessor control platforms in order to simplify the customer interface for automated and semi-automatic welding controls. His other roles at Miller include three years as Manager of Miller's Regional Distribution Center near Atlanta, where he obtained a degree in Welding Technology. He was also a Welding and Equipment Technician for Miller's Auto-Arc products, a product sold through the automotive aftermarket channel.
Territory: MI, northern IN & OH David Poirier began welding on the family farm at age 13 and he has enjoyed it ever since. As a Regional Account Manager for AMS, he helps Miller customers develop and troubleshoot automated welding equipment and processes. He focuses on customers in his native Michigan, northern Indiana and northern Ohio, but travels wherever his expertise is needed. Prior to joining Miller in May of 2000, David spent 10 years in the automotive market as a Welding Engineer managing large automation projects, developing procedures, specifications and training personal on the correct aspects of welding. While working for Tier 1 suppliers of instrument panels, suspension components and seat frames, he gained extensive first hand knowledge on the welding issues facing the automotive industry. This includes designing automotive components for optimum production, such as by building tooling that makes the part accessible for robotic torches and designing dies that produce consistent and accurate stampings, which in turn improves weld quality and travel speeds. David holds a Welding Engineering degree from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan and also is an AWS Certified Welding Inspector (CWI). After graduation, he went straight into the automotive industry, working as a Welding Engineer/Project Manager for such companies as MascoTech and Lear Corp. If youve ever ridden in a Ford Explorer, youre riding on a suspension David helped produce.
Mike O'Dell started welding in high school metal class and, while still in school, secured welding jobs in local fabrication shops. Today, as AMS Industry Segment Manager focused on Automotive Exhaust and Wheels Manufacturing, Mike helps customers use new technology and processes to address such issues as improving productivity, filling gaps, minimizing spatter and avoiding burn-through on thin materials. As a Miller District Manager serving the Michigan area for more than 15 years, Mike has extensive experience working with all the major automotive OEMs and Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers. Prior to working in industry, Mike's career focused on education. He started by obtaining an Associates degree in Welding Technology from Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1977. At the time, he also worked at Heil Co. welding aluminum petroleum tankers and at Bucyrus-Erie Co. welding large mining equipment. While at MATC, his instructor convinced him to go into education, so he attended the University of Wisconsin-Stout to obtain a B.S. in Technical Education. He then taught as a welding instructor at Western Wisconsin Technical Institute in LaCrosse before joining Miller in 1981 as a Technical Sales Specialist.
Alfredo se graduó en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana en la Ciudad de México en Mayo del 1995 como Ingeniero Industrial enfocado principalmente en procesos de fabricación, su contacto con la industria de la soldadura empezó en 1997 en ventas técnicas e instructor de procesos tales como; Corte por Plasma, soldadura Oxígeno-Combustible, proceso Tig y Mig. Posteriormente tuvo a su cargo las ventas internacionales realizadas en América Central en donde desarrolló aún más sus habilidades de administración de regiones y soluciones integrales. Actualmente forma parte del grupo de AMS con operaciones en México, principalmente en la industria automotriz en donde posee la capacidad de optimizar aplicaciones, desde la selección de un sistema de soldadura para alguna aplicación específica, selección de consumibles y estimación de costos, siempre con toda la intención de colaborar en cumplir los objetivos de sus clientes.
John Moran learned to weld in high school and, fascinated by how welding enabled him to create massive objects, spent his summers working in a local fabrication shop. As an Industry Segment Manager for the AMS group, this 17-year Miller veteran focuses on the Agricultural and Construction Machinery Manufacturing market. While he was a Miller Regional Manager covering Illinois and Iowa—the heavy equipment manufacturing capital of the world—John worked extensively with such industry leaders as John Deere, Case IH and Agco, helping them implement pulsed MIG and robotic welding technology to lower fume emission, reduce weld spatter and improve productivity. He understands the physical stress placed on Class-A parts such as frames, buckets and loader arms, and on the financial stress placed on U.S. manufacturers competing in a global economy. Combining degrees in Welding Technology (1976) and Occupational Technology (1978) from Southern Illinois University and 12 years of teaching experience, John knows how to help manufacturers train people, implement new technology to solve manufacturing problems and turn ownership of new equipment over to the operators using it. John also holds degrees in Business Administration from St. Ambrose University, Surfacing Technology from the Colorado School of Mines and has been a District Manager for a welding wire manufacturer.
Rick started at Miller in 1973, and today he helps customers get the most productivity out of their Axcess systems. When you have a question related to an application, proper system set up, selecting the correct wire and gas, troubleshooting an application, or even pricing and availability, a Miller welding technician such as Rick is there to support you. Or even before you select a system, Rick can help determine if Axcess is the right system for you, and if it is, which system best meets the needs of your application. Rick started in production at Miller, performing such tasks as welding transformers and stabilizers, working on the assembly line and completing the final testing of products. During the 1980s, he finished his Associate Degree in Electromechanical Technology from Fox Valley Technical College. In 1989, he moved to the Product Service Department and became heavily involved with inverter technology. In the 1990s, he continued his education and received an Associate Degree in Industrial Welding Technology from Fox Valley Technical College.
Bryan graduated from The Ohio State University in March 2004 with a Bachelor's of Science in Welding Engineering with an emphasis on Materials and Processes. He then took a position with the ITW Welding Technology Center in Glenview, Ill., as a Welding Engineer, where he assisted in new product development. In December 2004, he transferred to the AMS group as a Welding Engineer, where he specializes in automation applications and equipment analysis and optimization. When you have a question related to an application, proper system set up, selecting the correct wire and gas, troubleshooting an application, or even pricing and availability, a Miller welding technician such as Bryan is there to support you. Bryan started welding during high school in Rib Lake, Wis. While at The Ohio State University, he started working in the welding lab as a freshman, repairing and setting up machining and welding equipment. By his third year and until graduation, he managed the student instructor position at the welding lab. His first experience with Miller was as an intern in the Corporate Engineering Department, and again the next summer with Miller's AMS group.
Doug Watkins has joined the Miller MIG (Manufacturing Industries Group) as a Weld Engineer in process application for advanced manufacturing. He has been in welding for over 15 years serving a variety of industries and utilizing a full range of welding processes. He has worked with stainless steel in the food industry, high alloy steels in experimental aviation and HSLA steels in producing hydraulic cylinders among others. His focus has been in procedure and process development and improvement. Doug joins Miller Electric after working for Texas Hydraulics in their corporate welding program in process development and procedure compliance as well as worked with the ISO compliance team for welding, the international segment development team for strategic sourcing, welder training and manufacture engineering for process improvements in automation. Doug received his Bachelors Degree in Weld Engineering Technology from Utah State University where his focus was toward advanced processes and aviation applications. He is also an AWS Certified Weld Inspector.
Jim Wynegar, a Regional Account Manager with AMS, started out his welding career by completing a three-year welding vocational program at York Technical. He finished his schooling by winning a gold metal in the state VICA welding competition. While working part time at a production manufacturer for the Department of Defense while in school he continued on as a fulltime welder after graduation. Jim worked his way to the position of Project Manager for the Company where this experience allowed him to work closely with manufacturing welding applications and production problem solving. During this time Jim became an AWS (CWI) Certified Welding Inspector along with AWS (CWE) Certified Welding Educator. Because of Military spending cut backs and plant closings, he then took a position in outside sales with a local welding supply distributor for 5 years before getting back into the technical area. Jim then went to work for regional welding supply distributor as a technical representative where he was able to identify opportunities for cost savings, production improvements and developed weld training programs for many different industries. Jim has worked directly with customers such as New Holland and Harley Davidson Motor Company to identify cost savings, production improvements and process improvements. Having worked in manufacturing, sales and technical support, Jim has obtained a great understanding for the problems of manufacturing and the needs of today's work place.
Dwayne Mattox, the Southeast Regional Accounts Manager, started his welding career at the age of ten and has had a passion for welding that is still growing to this day. After graduation, Dwayne joined the armed forces becoming an Airborne Ranger in the United States Army. Following his tour in the Army, Dwayne learned how to weld underwater while working in Florida. When an opportunity became available to work with Toyota Motor Manufacturing as a welder, Dwayne moved to Kentucky to learn from one of the best in the automotive industry. Dwayne spent 13 years with Toyota where he learned the power and benefits of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement spending his last two years in charge of productivity improvements where he was awarded multiple patents. Recruited by a manufacturer in Florida, Dwayne continued to follow his passion becoming a senior engineer overseeing welding operations for the facility. It was at this time Dwayne started passing on his knowledge of welding by teaching and certifying new welders in the region. Realizing the need for more technical knowledge and following the continuous improvement ideology, Dwayne earned a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. With his knowledge of welding, lean manufacturing and robotics, Dwayne will be a valuable tool and asset to the manufacturers in todays ever-changing economy.
After graduating in May 2008, Caleb Haven joined Miller Electric as a Welding Engineer in the Advanced Manufacturing Systems group. He can help customers with welding applications, proper equipment set up, troubleshooting an application, or even selecting the correct wire and gas. Caleb Haven studied welding at Northwestern Michigan College before transferring to Ferris State University. While at Ferris, Caleb earned an associate's degree in Welding Technology and subsequently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Welding Engineering Technology. After graduating in May 2008, Caleb joined Miller Electric as a Welding Engineer in the Advanced Manufacturing Systems group. From his freshman through junior year at Ferris, Caleb worked in the university's welding lab. His duties included class material prep and university/community fabrication and repair projects. Caleb also spent several summers welding in a fabrication shop in Traverse City, Michigan. If you have questions about a welding application, proper equipment set up, troubleshooting an application, or even selecting the correct wire and gas, a Miller welding engineer such as Caleb is there to support you. |
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