BIOGRAPHY - JOSEPH R. COSKIE

Joseph R. Coskie is an Associate of Abair Associates, a consulting firm specializing in Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Reengineering, Process Design and New Product Introduction and related consulting and education.

Mr. Coskie.s expertise is in areas of Design Engineering, Product Design, Manufacturing Engineering and Automation Development. HE has been involved in a broad variety of development programs involving machine and assembly fixturing, process machinery, testing and inspection equipment, robotic and manual work cells, consumer and commercial product design, and multi-station assembly systems. Client contacts include Gillette, Osram-Sylvania, Texas Instruments, General Electric, U.S. Repeating Arms and United Technologies.

He has over thirty years experience in Design Engineering and special purpose equipment development in a wide range of disciplines. His responsibilities have included management supervision of over sixty engineering and manufacturing personnel involved in the design and development of process machinery and assembly systems. He has been directly involved with concept development, engineering and design, manufacturing liaison, assembly and test, and system installation of a wide variety of special purpose machinery.

Mr. Coskie graduated from Worcester Industrial Technical Institute with an AS in Machine and Tool Design, He is a graduate of the Heald Machine Company management training program.

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