Heat Treat Today is privileged to oversee the 40 Under 40 recognition awards highlighting a group of young, up-and-coming talent in the North American heat treat industry every year. This year’s Class of 2019 is no disappointment–a group of industry elite, significant contributors to the heat treat market.
Every couple of weeks we highlight two of the current class of recipients. This week we introduce Miguel Fajardo of John Deere and Tony Marton of The Timken Company.
Name: Miguel Fajardo
Company: John Deere
Position: Heat Treat & Fabrication Manufacturing Engineer
Miguel is responsible for the development of heat treatment manufacturing lines at John Deere Mexico and has collaborated with different John Deere sites around the globe on developing better heat treatment processes. He is currently enrolled on several HT symposiums and participating on a 6sigma contest for heat treatment lines. Day to day, Miguel demonstrates his commitment to heat treatment processes, seeking cost reductions and improvements to product quality, using tools like 6sigma. He has experience in a materials laboratory performing failure analysis, mechanical testing, and metallographic tests. He is a reference within the company in technical knowledge. His responsibilities are not limited to heat treatments; he is also in charge of forging and hardfacing processes, as well as machining and turning, where his materials knowledge has helped close gaps and and reduce costs. Today the John Deere factory that employs Miguel is on path to become a global excellence center for heat treatment manufacturing to support all John Deere sites in the world.
Nominated by: John Deere
Name: Tony Marton
Company: The Timken Company
Position: Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Process Design & Development
Tony is dedicated to building his existing knowledge and to applying his experience of heat treat manufacturing to the Timken bearing business. Since joining the team in late 2017, he has assumed new responsibilities quickly and dedicates his time to learning more about the bearing business. He is currently working on strategic plans to implement new heat treat processes for the company at several global manufacturing locations. He also is working on analyzing the heat treated dimensional results of specific product portfolios to develop rules for the growth and variation within various heat treat processes. He performs these analyses quickly and provides direction for engineering and supplier quality to help improve product results. In addition to his projects at work, he has been very involved in 2 of the company’s 4 Associate Resource Groups that all collaborate to improve the Diversity & Inclusion of the associates worldwide. Tony is also a high school volleyball coach and plays competitive volleyball in his spare time. Tony is a well-rounded associate who has been a great benefit to his team and to The Timken Company.
Nominated by: the Timken Company
Read more about the feature at Heat Treat Today’s 40 Under 40 resource page and find out more about each of this year’s winners by clicking on their image. To nominate someone for the Class of 2020 40 Under 40, please click here.
