Ken Rayment

Current

Producibility Engineer at Woodward Governor
Six Sigma Black Belt at Woodward Governor
Owner at Better Process Podcast

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Past

Process Engineer at Network Photonics
Manufacturing Engineer at Exabyte

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

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Connections

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Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

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Ken Rayment’s Summary

With a varied manufacturing background, I started the Better Process Podcast to talk about the innovation and progress small and mid-sized manufacturing firms make in this country. Topics range from ERP to Supply Chain issues to fabrication. Here is the byline for the show: "Did you know that manufacturing in the US could, on its own, be the 8th largest economy in the world? We interview people from manufacturing and logistics from all across the US. Come join us for a short sprint through the industry that keeps America prosperous!" A smaller subset of shows are available in video format as well.

Ken Rayment’s Specialties:

Varied and general manufacturing background.

Ken Rayment’s Experience

Producibility Engineer

Woodward Governor

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WGOV; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

February 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

Responsible for New Product Introductions (NPI). Projects include an electro-mechanical flow valve for Natural Gas delivery to a Fuel Cell for hydrogen production, and an electro-mechanical fuel control valve for a high-pressure pump. Responsible for tooling, process flow, measurement system analysis, capability studies, first article inspections, FMEAs, and control plans.
Six Sigma Black Belt

Woodward Governor

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WGOV; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

February 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)

Responsible for engineering process changes using DMAIC principles. Projects include developing vision through implementation of a data collection system for 12 different test stands. Other projects range from design of experiments (DOE) for early design products to people process changes.
Owner

Better Process Podcast

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

July 1998 — Present (11 years 5 months)

Interview top management from small & mid sized manufacturing firms across America. Over 600 shows are available on the network. Highlight innovation in manufacturing companies.

Process / Knowledge Management Consultant
Assisted clients with EC process/system implementation, Production Data Management, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Statistical Process Control (SPC), tooling implementation (LabView), and process flows. Current client is a start-up wire-free power technology company.
Process Engineer

Network Photonics

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

November 2000 — April 2003 (2 years 6 months)

Responsible for process, data collection, process control, configuration management and clean room facility. Lead process documentation and engineering change implementation (Agile), implementation of demand flow technology (JcIT), shopfloor control (MES) system (Wonderware), database design and data management (Oracle, Perl), web-based reporting including real-time charting (Visual Basic and .asp), barcode reader and labeling, and tool control (LabView). Completed a project drawing 1.2 meg / min of data into an Oracle database for web charting.
Manufacturing Engineer

Exabyte

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; exbt; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

September 1991 — August 1997 (6 years )

Responsible for line design, set-up, maintenance, statistical process control (SPC) monitoring, Access database query development and continuous process improvements. In a 13 month period our team reduced hours worked per unit from 14 to under 3 while 90 day return rate dropped from 6.6% to 0.4%. Moved ¼ inch drive product line to Singapore and Malaysia.