Jeffrey Noruk
President
Servo Robot Corp

Jeffrey Noruk's career began as a welding engineer for Harnischfeger Corporation and since has been involved in all facets of welding automation.  He is President of Servo Robot Corporation, a leading supplier of laser vision camera systems for robot guidance and weld inspection.  Before that he was Manager of the R&D Lab for Tower Automotive.  Prior to this he worked at Fanuc Robotics and Newport News Shipbuilding.

Mr. Noruk received a BS Degree in Welding Engineering from Ohio State University and an MS in Engineering Management from Milwaukee School of Engineering.  He is an AWS Certified Welding Inspector and Certified Quality Engineer. 

PRESENTATION: Can Smart Automated Weld Inspection Turn A Cost Into A Profit?
Weld inspection is traditionally thought of as a “necessary evil” done to satisfy required customer demands and/or applicable industry welding standards. Unfortunately this is a reactive approach to assuring acceptable weld quality is achieved.  The more proactive approach is to look at this from a Total Quality Control (TQC) perspective, which by doing so can positively affect not only quality but also productivity.

The “state of the art” of manual visual weld inspection can be summarized as follows: 1) very subjective, 2) redundant in that multiple people sometimes need to do the inspection in case one person misses something, 3) slow & costly, 4) mistake prone – mistakes in reading of measurements as well as recording results, 5) produces very little usable data that can drive Continuous Improvement and 6) not part of Total Quality Plan from the standpoint of trying to prevent defects from occurring.

This presentation will describe a much better approach and explain its role in helping companies move towards more productive automated welding.