Ryan McCauley – Heat Treat Today 40 Under 40
After two successful internships, Ryan McCauley dedicated his entire career to Contour and the heat treat industry. Starting out as a mechanical and programming engineer after graduating from Purdue University, Ryan later went on to manage customer system builds as the project manager and IT administrator. There, Ryan created Contour’s most profitable machine build by reducing the mechanical build cost.
Ryan has experience managing projects including design, build, and procurement of machine shipment and installation to customers in the U.S., Mexico, and China. After being promoted to manager of Systems Manufacturing, Production Support, and Maintenance in 2016, he has helped manage the completion of equipment and infrastructure improvement initiatives.
He designed induction hardening systems that are still utilized throughout the world today. For example, Ryan implemented 3D modeling design software and CMMS maintenance software, and he upgraded various plant infrastructures. This software was then used to display on the production floor unscheduled work orders for active machine issues and upcoming PM’s. Currently, Ryan is the manager of Operations Support and is initiating new robot cell and 5S implementation as well as an in-house machine upgrade. His dedication and ingenuity have helped Contour provide solutions to tackle the complex engineering problems brought to us by our customers.
Company: ThermoFusion, Inc.
Position: Quality Manager
Years in Industry: 9
Nominated by: ThermoFusion, Inc.
Although with ThermoFusion for less than a year, Katie Bastine is using her nine years of industry experience to modernize and streamline the quality system, leading the company to a complete ISO9001, AS9001 and Nadcap recertifications, and adding new Nadcap certified processes.
Specifically, Katie brought all TUS and SAT work in-house, including procuring the equipment, training the operators, and validating the work. She then prepared herself and the company for a series of audits, which ThermoFusion passed with only two major findings. During that process, Katie more than doubled the Nadcap certified processes in which ThermoFusion had been previously certified.
Katie’s dedication to her job has resulted in greater opportunity for ThermoFusion and customers and allows the company to remain one of the top-quality heat treating shops in the Western U.S.
