Harold Ehrlich Industrial Engineer & Product Design Expert

Professional Experience

Provide technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony towards the resolution of litigation involving product liability, mechanical, industrial and construction accidents.

Responsibilities include new product development, warnings and safety instructions, managing projects, and implementing improvements in various manufacturing environments.

Responsible for Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Design Engineering, and Quality Control. Responsible for certification and compliance with Underwriters Laboratories, as well as investigation of all product failures. Additional duties included manufacturing responsibility for Asian subcontractors. Objectives included new product development, product design, warnings and safety instructions, cost reduction for existing products, plant layout, assembly line balancing, review of processes and procedures, development of manufacturing flow diagrams, product costing, development of a system to measure plant efficiency, and special projects. Project work included technical support to customers and consumers.

Responsible for all manufacturing departments including injection and blow molding, production manufacturing, maintenance, materials, purchasing, quality control, consumer service, and personnel. Responsibilities included new product development, product design, warnings and safety instructions, and the investigation and disposition of all product failure cases. As Compliance Manager, responsibilities included certification and compliance with Underwriters Laboratories, Canadian Standards Association, and TUV (Europe).

Responsible for industrial/manufacturing engineering functions. Specific areas of responsibility included upgrading methods and equipment, new product development, product design, and establishing a system of engineering documentation. Additional duties included the supervision of maintenance personnel and plant/warehouse layout.

Broad areas of responsibility included development of manufacturing concepts, product design, production tooling, assembly methods, and labor standards. Specific duties included assembly line balancing, line and plant layout, work station design, and equipment justification. Additional duties included the training and supervision of engineers, all rework originating from off shore facilities, and warehouse/distribution projects.

Duties included methods engineering, establishing labor standards, plant layout, equipment justification, and cost reduction.

Duties included methods engineering, establishing labor standards, and equipment justification.

Responsible for design drafting, selection of custom fabrications, and coordination of construction projects. Duties included creating shop drawings from architects' drawings and specifications.

Education

B.S., Engineering, cum laude, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1978

Memberships and Affiliations

• ASTM Subcommittee F08.30 Fitness Products: Treadmill Task Group ASTM F2115 Standard Specification for Motorized Treadmills, 2021
• ASTM Subcommittee F15.74 Weighted Blankets: Work Group on Weighted Blankets, Development of New Standard, Warnings and Instructions Task Group, Scope Task Group, 2019
• ANSI Z315.1: Work Group on American National Standard for Tricycles – Safety Requirements and Warnings, 2011
• ASTM Subcommittee F15.22 Toy Safety: ASTM F963 Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety, Voting Member, 2001 to present

Publications

Ehrlich, H., "Machine Guarding 101," Common Defense, A Member Publication of Kentucky Defense Council, Inc., Fall/Winter 2017

Ehrlich, H. & Winter, L., “The Essence of Workshop Safety,” Popular Woodworking Magazine, April 2006

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