About Owner
About Eric Twiname
Photo above is courtesy of Black Mountain Ranch, CO.
Eric Twiname has been developing tape formulas and ceramic manufacturing systems for over 25 years. Working first with Richard E. Mistler, Inc. as "the other guy" (a real job title on a business card) developing and installing production systems for customers worldwide, Eric developed equipment, processes, new chemistries and new techniques for the efficient manufacture and development of tape cast products. Many of these installed production systems remain in volume manufacture, though perhaps not with the original client company.
As Chief Engineer of Richard E. Mistler, Inc., Eric developed new, high precision yet low cost laboratory scale tape casting machines (TTC-1000 & TTC-1200) which have sold over 170 units worldwide and was rated best new product of the year by ceramic trade journals. Also while Chief Engineer, Eric founded and operated the Tape Casting Warehouse division of Richard E. Mistler, Inc.
Eric has lectured at many professional conferences and production installations. He has published a number of peer reviewed papers on tape casting including co-authoring, together with Richard Mistler, the only book on Tape Casting. He has performed on-site troubleshooting and efficiency training at a number of Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. He has also developed custom machinery in diverse ceramic forming industries such as extrusion, dry pressing, isostatic pressing and tape casting.
Taking a leave of absence from Richard E. Mistler, Inc. from 1998 through 2000, Eric obtained a Master’s Degree in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, advised by Dr. Clive Randall and Dr. Gary Messing. He returned to Richard E. Mistler, Inc. as part owner and Vice President of Operations.
In 2004, Eric joined Electroscience Laboratories, Inc. as Senior Scientist, quickly becoming the Manager of Tape Development, responsible for all aspects of Electroscience Laboratories tape effort. In this position,Eric led the tape team through two capacity increases (net capacity increase of 440%) including: clean room design and layout, process flow, design for manufacture, and implemented initial stages of 5S for tape manufacturing while maintaining 99+% on time shipments. Eric also designed and implemented production control systems, batch dispensing protocol, QC, QA, inventory control systems and predictive raw material management systems, including all database programming. As a result of his efforts, a net production increase of 40X was achieved with a net labor cost increase of 20%. Promoted to Assistant Director of Operations for the facility, he took the company wide product realization process and ISO compliance systems electronic further saving not only dozens of labor hours per week, but also increasing security, stability and reliability.
Upon the retirement of Dr. Richard Mistler from the company of Richard E. Mistler, Inc., Eric once again took responsibility of the Tape Casting Warehouse division that he had founded 15 years earlier. This company, now called “The Tape Casting Warehouse, Inc.” continues to uphold the goals he founded the division upon: “Supplies on time for casting” and “One Stop Shopping for ALL of your tape casting needs.”
Eric enjoys all aspect of tape casting, but primarily values teaching and training in effective production processes and systems. He primarily enjoys serving people in the form of aid, training and coaching in the achievement of life goals, corporate goals and the fulfillment of desires that have been cast aside as unachievable. All things are possible through Him who strengthens me. Eric also offers business consulting in related fields and treasures the job title of "Fixer of Outdated Systems".
Education
B.S.
Ceramic Engineering , NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1990
Keramos National Ceramic Engineering Honor Society – Alfred Chapter
M.S.
Mat. Sci. and Engineering (Ceramic Science), , The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Thesis: “Embedding Inductor Materials in Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics”
Advisors: Dr. Clive A. Randall, Dr. Gary L. Messing
Keramos National Ceramic Engineering Honor Society – Penn State Chapter
Experience
Jan. 2013 – Present
President
The Tape Casting Warehouse, Inc., PO Box 296, Morrisville, PA, 19067
Supply of low to high volume essential Tape Casting supplies and Equipment to the tape casting industry. Majority owner, responsible for all aspects of business operations. Consultation for initial tape casting trials, process improvement, scale up assistance and guidance, information systems, long term profit optimization, manufacturing line stability.
Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2017
Assistant Director of Operations - Lead Tape Engineer
Ferro Corporation, King of Prussia, PA 19406 (which acquired Electroscience Laboratories, Inc.)
Responsible for all tape manufacturing, Site IT systems integration, SAP launch preparation. Core team leader for Electroscience Laboratories systems integration into Ferro systems. Primary lead for accounting, costing methods and inventory costing for precious metals management teams. Resigned October 31, 2017 to run The Tape Casting Warehouse, Inc. full time.
Feb. 2004 – Oct. 2016
Senior Scientist→Manager–Tape Development→Asst. Dir. of Operations
Electroscience Laboratories, Inc., King of Prussia, PA, 19406
Responsible for profitability, new customer development, customer technical support and all aspects of development and production of tape products including: writing all ISO procedures, automotive PPAP submission and compliance, customer relations, ISO/TS audits and employee training. Developed teams for plant wide transition to paperless inventory and tape product data for SQC, managed new product development efforts and intra-team leadership development. Led the tape team through two capacity increases (net capacity increase of 440%) including: clean room design and layout, process flow, design for manufacture, and implemented initial stages of 5S for tape manufacturing, maintained 99+% on time shipments. Designed and implemented production control systems, batch dispensing protocol, QC, QA, inventory control systems and predictive raw material management systems including all database programming. Realized net production rate increase of 40x with labor cost increase of 20%. Primary contact for GHS compliance realization. Responsible for all on site PM accountability and traceability.
Jun. 1991 – Feb. 2004
Ceramic Engineer→Research Engineer→Chief Engineer→VP Operations
Richard E. Mistler, Inc., Morrisville, PA, 19067
Responsible for production, sales, finance, customer relations, advertising design, facility operations and maintenance, furnace scheduling and repair, summer interns and co-op students. Designed and founded the Tape Casting Warehouse including design and manufacture of tape casting and inspection equipment. Designed, built and launched original company website.
Professional Societies and Related Interests
American Ceramic Society (Served terms on Executive board for both Trenton and Philadelphia Sections)
ISHM / IMAPS (Sidney J. Stein Educational Grant Award Recipient 1999)
Elsmar Cove Quality Forum
Filemaker Technet
ISO 9001, Lean Mfg, Production efficiency, Optimizing processes for maximum profitability.