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Etienne Ehkirch

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Product Development Leader at FORVIA

  • Education

    • Utbm

      2010 - 2013
      Equivalent to master degree mechanical engineering

      Activities and Societies: 24H de l’innovation, 19 -20 Mai 2011(ten-person team): Several subjects are given to some team all around the world by experts. The different teams have 24 hours to give design a product which answer to the problem and send it to the organisers. The products are classified and some teams receive a price. Responsibility of Aïkido activities in the UTBM student sport club. Speciality: Design and Product development:- innovative design- environmentally friendly design- robust engineering- product life management and Lean design

    • Iut de belfort

      2008 - 2010
      2-year technical degree (dut) mechanical engineering and production

      Activities and Societies: Kinematic and dynamic analysis of a 6 axis robot-arm Design of an hybrid radio-controlled car. - Refurbishment of a Renault 4L car (4 students):Two members of my team have participated in the ‘4L Trophy’: a humanitarian rally with the goal of driving across the Moroccan desert to provide children with school and medical supplies. Technical courses in mechanical engineering, design with CAD, materials mechanical properties, machining (turning, milling with conventional machines and CNC by coding or using MasterCAM), welding, other way of production (just courses, no applications), automation

  • Experience

    • Schindler - elevator car system

      Feb 2007 - Feb 2007
      Intern: workman

      Industrial placement at Elevator Car System visiting all departments and working in the sheet-metal works, in the painting workshop and the assembling workshop.

    • University of birmingham

      Apr 2010 - Jun 2010
      Intern: research fellow

      Design of an electrical automatic vehicle carrying a robot arm equipped with sensors to detect cracks and defects in railway lines. Dimensioning the propulsion, finding solution to acquire rail profile, design. Choice of a laser sensor and design of a support for the robot arm.

    • Vmc pêche

      Sept 2011 - Feb 2012
      Intern: design manager assistant

      Professional training on the mechanical design and development of different parts of hooks forming machine. Carry out different subjects relative to the hook forming, security of the machines and enhancement of product quality.Programming using Visual Basic software on excel to create hook forming die. Creating adjustable hood for air quality improvement. Enhancement of the hook point sharpen tool. Vision Systems Integration to improve quality and decrease dysfunction of machines. Work station security and powder distribution improvement Show less

    • Faurecia

      Feb 2013 - Jun 2017

      Knowlege base application Development on CATIA:- Project management- Specification establishment with Key CAD Designer and Experts from FAURECIA along the world.- Catia PowerCopy design- VBA Users Interfaces programming in Catia V5- Issues corrections and tools improvement.- User support CAD Templates Development on CATIA:- Project management- Specification establishment with Key CAD Designer and Experts from FAURECIA along the world.- Catia PowerCopy design- VBA Users Interfaces programming in Catia V5- Issues corrections and tools improvement.

      • Knowledge Engineer

        Sept 2013 - Jun 2017

      • Final Placement - CAD Templates Development on CATIA at FAURECIA

        Feb 2013 - Aug 2013

    • Forvia

      Jun 2017 - Jul 2024

      Development of Multi Element Gas Container for hydrogen transportation and locomotive fuelling: - Analyse specifications and regulations (ADR,R134) - Manage product development (CAD, simulations, validations) - Participation to assessment of the product (DFMEA, Risk analysis) - Redaction of homologation file and user manual. Battery pack development:- Concepts definition, drawing definition- DFMEA- Supplier discussions- Submit IDF and patent watch In charge of all exhaust development (cold end) for PSA EMP2 plateform.Develop exhaust system regarding customer specification and plant capacities.Design Half shells, folded sheet metal, bended tubes. Check by simulation modal frequency of componenets and stamping ability (Autoform Advisor). Part dimensioning and tolerancing (drawings) according ISO standard.Delegation and follow-up of the work with back-office in India. In charge of exhaust development for Scania and John Deere.Develop exhaust system regarding customer specification and plant capacities.Design Half shells, folded sheet metal, bended tubes and machined parts. Part dimensioning and tolerancing (drawings) according ISO standard.Delegation and follow-up of the work with back-office in India.

      • Product Development Leader

        Jan 2023 - Jul 2024

      • Innovation Design Leader

        Nov 2021 - Jan 2023

      • Design Leader

        Jan 2018 - Nov 2021

      • Design Leader CVE

        Jun 2017 - Jan 2018

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