Engineering and Technical Work

Here I am using a laser interferometer to check the diagonal accuracy of a Swiss Sip planer mill. These machines are some of the most accurate machine tools in the world.

In addition to writing a lot of software to create part programs, I also actually created lots of part programs. Here's one of my programs running. Mistakes at this scale are very uncool.

I managed large construction projects related to the installation of large machine tools. Here the site is being cleared of a foundation that a previous machine used.

Here the excavation is finished and the rebar is being set.

One of the last concrete pours on this job. I often used the computer model of the factory to double check that a concrete truck could indeed get to where it needed to go.

Concrete work finished. Now comes the tense part for me as I wait to find out if the machine I've designed this installation for actually fits.

Machine is now being assembled in the new foundation. Yes, fits perfectly.

Here I am using the boring mill myself to test out its control system and practice cutting tapered grooves.

The machine is now fully operational and working on a large turbine housing.

Here is a grinder foundation I designed. The amount of rebar shows how substantial (and permanent) such foundations are.

Excavation and preliminary form work for a foundation I designed for a large vertical boring machine. Note that at this stage there already is concrete in the main machine foundation which was already quite deep.

Organizing where the mounting bolts go is a tricky business. Here scaffolding is being constructured to hang the hold down bolts in the correct place.

The completed machine in action. Note that the installation had to be recessed because it and many of its parts were taller than the overhead crane's clearance.

This machine has been installed since I left. The last thing I did at Dynamic was to design a feasible arrangement for this machine. Notice that it has a pit within a lowered floor. It also extends into another bay. Other factors were the fact that there was another machine in the way that had to be moved and the building had to be modified. There were also floor reinforcing pilings that were there from a project in the distant past that had to be coordinated with new pilings. Check out the scale of this thing by looking at the step ladder!