Interview with Jonathan Bissmeyer

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Interview with Jonathan Bissmeyer

• Conducted by Jacqueline Lagratta

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Overview

• Look at Rockwell Automation
• Type of work
• Future Goals
• How Jonathan Bissmeyer fits into Rockwell
  Automation
• Interview Points
• Mercer Experience
• Future
• Conclusions/Contact information

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Rockwell Automation

• Uses industrial automation control and
  information solutions to give their customers a
  competitive advantage.
• Comprehensive portfolio of products, software and
  services
• Faster time to market
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Better asset management/optimization
• Broader manufacturing business risk management

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Companies They Have Serviced

• Their services provide help to all sorts of
  different types of companies such as
• Aerospace Defense
• Graphic Systems
• Avionics controls and information systems
• Automotive
• Power Systems
• Semiconductor Systems
• Worked along side with companies such as
• Boeing
• Concerto Software
• Baldor Electric Company

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Future Goals

• Written in their recently published Corporate
  Responsibility Report 2007, they claim to want
  changes such as these with in the next year
• 20,000 employees more than half from outside
  the U.S.
• Women, U.S. minorities and non-U.S. citizens,
  make up 19 percent of our corporate officers and
  24 percent of our senior executives
• Exceeded all corporate diversity goals, of U.S.
  college hires, 40 percent minority and 33 percent
  women

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An Environmental Friendly Company

• Within the past year they have been able to
• Recycle or reclaimed 80 percent of solid waste
  generation and reduce solid waste by 43 percent.
• Reduced indirect and direct carbon dioxide
  emissions resulting from energy consumption by 14
  percent normalized to total sales
• Used 14 percent less electricity
• Used 7 percent less liquid fuels and natural gas

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Jonathan Bissmeyer

• Graduate in May 2004 as an IE
• Works with Rockwell Automotive
• Title at Rockwell Manufacturing Engineer II
• Worked for Rockwell ever since graduation, and
  will soon be exploring a new opportunity starting
  today (April 7, 2008).

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Mercer Experience

• Had an internship with The Boeing Company
• Boeing did not lead to this job, however he
  worked with them for his senior design project
• Classes most useful Statistical Process Control
  classes and DOE class
• Classes least useful Mechanical classes

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From Interview

• Do you use any process or control charts?
• Yes I use them weekly to look for trends in
  yield losses and also in trying to find the
  capabilities of certain processes. They're use is
  essential in any manufacturing engineering
  position to be able to produce a consistent and
  quality product

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Other Facts About Rockwell

• They started at over 50K out of school so they
  were very competitive.
• Probably 90 of my day is working with
  non-engineers.
• Six Sigma is the biggest trend in Industry right
  now, and he uses it daily, but it uses most of
  the same tools that are taught in the SPC and DOE
  classes.

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Future for Jonathan

• I see myself with an MBA and trying to work my
  way up into a role where I can use my experience
  to directly affect the performance of the company
  I am working for at the time.
• He started a new job 7 April 2008
• Just got married and is looking forward to
  starting a family.

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Contact Information

• Jacqueline Lagratta
• 10479115_at_student.mercer.edu
• 215.740.6527
• Jonathan Bissmeyer
• jhbissmeyer_at_hotmail.com
• Rockwell Automation
• 414.382.2000 (Milwaukee, WI)
• http//www.rockwellautomation.com/

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Questions?
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Resources

• Thanks to Jonathan Bissmeyer for his time in
  helping me complete the interview and for
  permission to use the photograph
• Rockwell Automations website information of the
  company and their 2007 Corporate Responsibility
  Report
• http//www.rockwellautomation.com/