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Nick Gantner has over 35 years of industrial experience in line, staff and management positions and as a management consultant for the past 18 years covering a wide array of professional disciplines and responsibilities. He became a consultant in 1985 after resigning from Ingersoll Engineers in Rockford, IL. Nick was formerly Manager of Engineering and Chief Industrial Engineer for Champion International. He also worked as Group Manager and Staff Engineer for Bosch and Ford Motor Company in West Germany. Gantner was a member of the European planning team responsible for designing Ford's Fiesta car plant in Valencia, Spain. Most of his assignments are aimed at facility designs, strategic studies and manufacturing technologies related to metal cutting, metal forming, electronics and Composites, long range strategic planning and facility modernization and consolidations. Gantner has been a key player in consulting assignments involving planning and integration of advanced manufacturing technologies with clients such as Martin Marietta, MBB-Airbus/Germany, Champion Road Machinery/Ontario, GE-Albuquerque, Giddings & Lewis, Pratt & Whitney and Dana Corporation. He has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering form the Technical University of Darmstadt, West Germany. Gantner maintains his membership in the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the Computer and Automated Systems Association of SME (CASA), to name a few. |
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