Background & Experience of Kenneth L. Krolski
CEO, Kentron Inc.
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Kenneth L. Krolski formed Kentron, Inc. in 1985 to assist companies in the design, manufacturing and test of electrical, electronic, and plastic products including vacuum encapsulation of
high voltage products.
Kentron:
- Works with the client's design teams to stimulate new ideas
- Develops products from concept through manufacturing
- Reviews designs for manufacturability
- Works with Engineering and Manufacturing to reduce cost, increase through-put, eliminate in-house and field failures and improve product reliability
Kentron also designs aluminum die castings, plastic moldings and metal stampings.
Our low cost, high quality creative approach to product designs and assembly has
helped companies in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Mexico, New Zealand and Bangladesh.
Projects involved product design, defining manufacturing processes, assembly techniques and incoming inspection requirements, selecting
manufacturing equipment, training of personnel, customer relations and
strategic planning.
Education, Patents
- Experience: 39 years
- Education: MSEE - University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Patents: Three
- Disclosures: Numerous
- Registered Professional Engineer - State of Wisconsin
Ken Krolski, a senior member of the I.E.E.E., is a past member of the S.A.E. committees on ignition system standards,
testing, spark plugs and spark plug wires.
Contact Ken Krolski for additional information.
Telephone: (262) 377-3733
E-mail: kkrolski@kentroninc.com
URL: www.kentroninc.com
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AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Engineering
- Assistant Director of Engineering
- Chief Engineer
- Project Engineer
- Product Design Engineer
- Industrial Engineer
Manufacturing
- General Manager of a start-up company
- Production Control
- Material Control
- Quality Control
- Purchasing
- Set up a manufacturing department and facilities to assemble 2,000,000
units per year.
- Defining machine specifications
- Machine approval
- Defining assembly procedures and quality control specifications
- Training lead men and assemblers, etc.
Product Design
- Creative designs
- Recognize the need for new products in the marketplace
- High volume, low cost consumer products
- Low volume, high quality industrial products
- Quality is designed into the product and assembly processes
Management
- Strategic planning
- Personnel year end reviews
- Personnel training
- Hire & fire personnel
- Project management from concept through manufacturing including customer relations
- Generate proposals for new products
- Selling proposals to management
- Cost estimating new and revised products
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ASSIGNMENTS
Aerospace Companies
- Evaluate products
- Define product, manufacturing, quality control specifications
- Develop concepts for a new product
- Design products, create drawings
- Build and test prototypes
Consumer Products Companies
- Develop concepts
- Design products
- Prototype and test products
- Define product, manufacturing, quality control specifications
- Train supervisors, lead men and assemblers
- Draft Bills of Materials
- Cost products
- Select suppliers, negotiate prices
- Determine and eliminate manufacturing and field failure modes
Medical Products Company
- Develop a concept for a high volume product
- Complete the preliminary design
- Create drawings
Manufacturing Companies
- Define processing specifications
- Define assembly procedures
- Eliminate manufacturing problems
- Analyze and eliminate field and in-house failures
Automotive Supplier
- Review coil design
- Improve assembly processes
- Define vacuum encapsulation process
- Define test requirements
- Train personnel in the vacuum encapsulation process
- Eliminate in-house and field rejects
- Strategic Planning
For more information, email your questions to: Kentron Inc.
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