Fred Duchow has over 25 years of experience in master scheduling, production planning and control, and manufacturing engineering. He has a track record of improving production processes, resolving issues, and ensuring accurate reporting. Duchow is skilled at troubleshooting, data analysis, and working with both manufacturing and IT teams.

1. FRED DUCHOW
3105 SOUTH GLENBROOK DRIVE
GARLAND, TX 75041-4402
972-270-0293 CELL
972-278-8087 HOME
FREDDUCHOW@GMAIL.COM
SUMMARY
Master Scheduler/Production Control Planning Professional within a manufacturing environment.
Experience includes multiple facets of overall production and production control activities,
including production supervision, master scheduling, production control and parts inventory
planning. Complementing the experience are skills working directly with IT as subject matter
expert, liaison, and initial contact for manufacturing system projects/programs. Well known and
respected for troubleshooting and detailed analytical talent leading to problem resolution,
continuous process improvement, and improved reporting accuracy. Excellent written and verbal
communication skills with all areas and levels of the organization.
PROFESSION AL EXPERIENCE
PEERLESS MFG. CO., Denton, TX September 2015 – November 2015
(Newly acquired by CECO Environmental)
Designer and Manufacturer of Filtration and Separation Equipment for the Energy Industry
Senior Production Planner (September 1, 2015 - Present)
♦ Instrumental key player in humungous continuous improvement campaign starting in
September 2015 following a massive reduction of manufacturing support personnel.
Questioned every task being performed and discontinued or transitioned numerous tasks
to retain core focus on planning and scheduling the Denton manufacturing plant.
♦ Responsible for reporting current shopload and production schedules to management,
preparing and running weekly production status meetings, managing changes and
maintaining integrity of system data due to these changes, troubleshooting issues from
numerous areas and training/re-training as needed, assigning new orders to appropriate
plant, and the multitude of tasks which encompass the term ‘other’ in the job description.
PEERLESS MFG. CO., Dallas, TX June 2008 – August 2015
Designer and Manufacturer of Filtration and Separation Equipment for the Energy Industry
Senior Production Control Specialist (June 2008 – August 2015)
♦ Assist in ramp up of newly implemented ERP system, maintaining operations, resource
groups, and other critical data for the correct assignment of labor and shopload for the
multi-plant production operations.
♦ Created critical parameters to measure scheduling dates which did not support the
schedule and researched the reasons to re-align dates for successful contract delivery.
♦ Monitored planning data in the ERP system to ensure proper MRP processing on a
nightly basis, and resolution of Error messages in the MRP Processing Logs.
♦ Implemented new templates for the creation of Engineering Bill of Operations to
minimize time and keystrokes required to add BOO to jobs in the ERP system.
♦ Evolved into the Subject Matter Expert for the Epicor 9 ERP system, entertaining and
resolving questions pertaining to the flow of data into the ERP system and the analysis of
data from the ERP system.

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♦ Critical Team member on transition from Vantage 8 to Epicor 9 (E9) ERP systems, and
primary trouble shooter of E9 issues when going live.
♦ Worked tirelessly at evaluating the Why’s pertaining to Purchase Order Suggestion
generation…Why was a Purchase Order Suggestion generated? Or…Why was a Purchase
Order Suggestion NOT generated? Delved deeply into understanding MRP planning
parameters and the interactions of multiple parameters.
♦ Key contributor to focused Team to re-vamp ERP system processes, working with
external consultant groups to synergize improvements in processing of Sales Orders from
Receipt of Order to Receipt of Cash. Again, became subject matter expert in many areas
of the ERP system, especially relating to the scheduling of jobs and the processing of
MRP.
♦ Instrumental in maintaining system integrity when transferring manufacturing work from
plant to plant due to capacity issues or due to one of the 4 plant closures over the past 4
years.
♦ Re-vamped process of completing and closing manufacturing jobs in system, training key
people in proper sequencing of transactions and developing tools to monitor status of
each group of transactions.
SANDENVENDO AMERICA INC., Dallas, TX July 2004 – June 2008
Manufacturer of Vending Machines
Master Scheduler (March 2005 – June 2008)
♦ Process all orders received from Domestic and International customer base. Evaluate all
resources required and set production dates. Communicate with production, sales,
management, and shipping regarding status of most orders.
♦ Regularly re-evaluate and re-load updated forecast figures to drive all resource
requirements.
♦ Reduced lead times for customer shipments from 6-8 weeks down to 1-2 weeks.
♦ Established SKUs to reduce lead times for our highly repetitious, high-volume, customers
♦ Streamlines final assembly schedule to include customer order information to allow for
grouping of orders in the shipping warehouse and thus drastically reducing the time
required to load trailers.
♦ Instrumental in identifying and correcting discrepant planning parameters leading to more
accurate MRP data.
♦ Established new lot sizing and minimum inventory levels for SKUs and sub assemblies to
provide increased accuracies and efficiencies in the procurement and assembly processes.
♦ Self taught the programming process for the embossing machine used to stamp
identification plates for each unit. Re-programmed machine when hard drive
malfunctioned and back up program was not available.
Production Manager (July 2004 - March 2005)
♦ Managed assembly operations to support start up in Dallas during transition from Fresno,
CA.
♦ Worked with Team to accomplished smooth physical move from temporary assembly
location to permanent location, contributing layout, time study, process flow, and staffing
support.
♦ Responsible for all aspects of assembly operations, including safety, quality, quantity, and
process improvements.
♦ Increased production by 400%, from 18/day to 72/day, while increasing staffing from 8
to 30 associates.

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SANDEN INTERNATIONAL (USA) INC., Wylie, TX February 1995 - November 2003
QS-9000 Manufacturer of Automotive Air Conditioning Compressors
Production Supervisor (March 2000 - November 2003)
♦ Supervised staff ranging from 55 to 75 hourly employees emphasizing safety promotion,
quality awareness, and communication of production requirements to ensure success of
the assembly team.
♦ Built and mentored a very effective leadership team, successfully meeting production and
budgetary goals.
♦ Conceived, presented, and assisted in implementation and training of new Kronos based
attendance tracking system which automated attendance tracking, improved attendance
accuracy, reduced input time by 80%, and simplified the documentation of disciplinary
actions taken against hourly employees.
♦ Successfully analyzed over-budgeted labor expenses for production cost center to identify
and correct discrepancies and improve accuracy of budgetary process for future business
terms.
♦ Eliminated unnecessary labor activity through research and fact finding, resulting in
tremendous savings for a repacking process.
♦ Facilitated and participated in multiple cross-functional Kaizen teams focused on
productivity improvements, methods improvements, and defect elimination.
♦ Worked as manufacturing team member on numerous IT projects, including barcode,
Kronos time, and Kronos attendance implementations, to improve and upgrade software
capabilities and end user competencies.
Master Scheduler (February 1995 – March 2000)
♦ Maintained target inventory levels of finished goods and machined product to meet
internal and external customer requirements through close monitoring and clear
communication to all involved.
♦ Responded to newest customer requirements through close communication with internal
departments and communication of those changes to production personnel to meet and
satisfy external customers’ needs.
♦ Prepared and modified production plans on regular basis through input from sales and
output to production to ensure latest long-term requirements were communicated
correctly throughout the organization.
♦ Successfully analyzed core root causes leading to excessive obsolete inventory and was
instrumental in justifying both internally and externally the use of this material to liquidate
obsolete material and minimize associated expenses.
♦ Worked as production control team member on numerous IT projects, including Y2K
task force, upgraded MRPII software implementation, and MPS improvements, to
improve and upgrade software capabilities and end user competencies.
CPC VENDING/ROWE INTERNATIONAL, Rockwall, TX August 1994 - February 1995
Manufacturer of Vending Machines
Manufacturing Engineer
♦ Supervised implementation of engineering improvements on more than 400 new multi-
product vending machines to support customer requirements of more efficient
machinery.
♦ Responsible for final quality audit on large international order of popcorn vending
machines to ensure product quality and reliability.

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♦ Performed troubleshooting and problem resolution activities in support of seven product
lines through interaction with multiple support groups in order to improve productivity
and reduce production downtime.
♦ Initiated engineering changes to support assembly, process, and quality improvements.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC., Dallas, TX November 1988 - February 1994
Manufacturer of Military Defense Electronic Systems
Manufacturing Engineer
♦ Organized and directed team, which increased first pass yield of an optical assembly more
than 200%.
♦ Provided technical leadership in the design and implementation of a significant number
(98) of process improvements, which reduced cycle time and costs, and improved quality.
♦ Reduced cycle time on warranty repairs by 80%, from 98 days to 20 days, over the
previous year.
♦ Analyzed and diagnosed errors on troubled assembly by teaming with Methods
Engineering for process improvements, which decreased cycle time by three days and
increased customer satisfaction by preventing equipment downtime and potential failure.
♦ Programmed and supported daily operations of component locater machinery for printed
wiring boards, resulting in increased operator efficiency.
OTHER PROFESSION AL EXPERIENCE
DURACELL USA, Waterbury, CT
Manufacturer of Metal and Plastic Battery Components
Industrial Engineering Assistant/Quality Control Technician
Responsibilities included manpower, machine, and efficiency studies for establishing new standard
costs, recommending cost saving improvements for major manufacturing area, new product process
capability studies, and floor layouts for relocating departments.
EDUC ATION
BS, Industrial Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY