The document summarizes Robert Gibbons' experience as a co-op at Southco, including: 1) Creating displays and prototypes for Olympus Keymed products and ensuring their safe transport to trade shows. 2) Recognizing a need for additional tools in the tool room and procuring a toolbox to conveniently store them. 3) Suggesting areas for potential future work with other Southco departments to gain broader experience. 4) Assisting engineers with drawings, models, and prototypes and working with machinists on parts and displays. 5) Offering advice to future co-ops to absorb information, manage time effectively, and take notes. 6) Impression of Southco as the best

1. MY SOUTHCO CO-OP
EXPERIENCE
By: Robert Gibbons

2. Olympus Keymed Arm Display
• Created a display to show the Olympus Keymed Arm.
• Made a 3D models of each part of the display
• Machined each part in the tool room.
• Arranged and planned shipping for display to trade shows
• Used a suitcase and foam for safe, easy transport
• Tony Wood and I shot a video showing how to properly
set up the display.
• Sent the display to Ryan Bennett for use with a customer

3. Olympus Keymed Display

4. Diversified Technologies Tool Room Toolbox
• Recognized a problem, my team needed machining tools:
• Set of end mills
• Deburring tools
• Other machining tools
• Reason for problem
• No convenient and safe place to store the extra tools
• Solution
• Found a toolbox in the Tool Room and ordered a key for the toolbox
• Result
• People in both departments can be more productive by not having
to share tools

5. Areas of Improvements
• Work with more departments in Southco.
• Transportation
• Electronic Access Solutions
• This would help compare how each department operates
• Work with some of the business departments
• How money flows in company
• See business operations side

6. Diversified Experience
• Worked with engineers in the Diversified Technologies to:
• create product drawings
• Make 3D models
• assemble prototypes
• Worked with the machinists to:
• Fabricate fixtures I designed in D-Tech
• modify parts for D-Tech prototypes
• create display pieces for our products
• Recently worked with New Product Development to:
• Preform an array of tests on the Terminator ejector
• Create a Test Report

7. To Future CO-OPs
• It is easy to absorb information from everyone that you
will encounter here and you will learn a lot.
• Learn to manage your time, do not take on new projects if
you know you are busy on other projects.
• But do not push away new projects if you have time to work on
them, because you will waste your time here if you do not push
yourself.
• Buy a small notebook that you can carry around to write
down notes.

8. My Impression of Southco
• Southco is the best run company I have ever worked for.
• Many friendly and knowledgeable people.
• Multiple opportunities for employees to move up in the
company.
• Easy to get in contact with the officers of Southco.
• There is a strong Drexel University Alumni presence.