About JDC Consulting
Jim Coburn formed JDC Consulting in 2003, after spending 24 years with Rockwell
Automation (originally Allen-Bradley) in product development and application
consulting. During this time, he worked closely with companies such as Ford,
Disney Imagineering, Proctor and Gamble and other Fortune 100 manufacturing
leaders. More recently, he has decided to raise the profile of JDC Consulting
and has enlisted the resources of a variety of application specialists to
provide a comprehensive set of services to the marketplace.
These specialists include Dr. Andreas Inmann (medical device development), Jay Hardway (embedded control), Patrick Coburn (enterprise
level data base design), Karl Edminster and his team at Electromechanica (custom machinery and control in a
variety of applications), and Michael Haessly (quality strategies and analysis).
President
Jim Coburn left NDI Medical in early 2008, a neurotech startup, to revitalize JDC Consulting.
While at NDI Medical, he was Director of Operations and simultaneously
contributed to a variety of software projects. He also authored several funded
SBIR's for neurotech applications . He had joined NDI Medical in 2004 after 24 years with Rockwell
Automation, the global provider of industrial automation power, control and
information systems. At Rockwell, he was the Director of Product Development for
Advanced Automation Products. Mr. Coburn has been a manufacturing strategy
consultant for such industry giants as Abbott, Gillete, Proctor and Gamble,
Ford Motor Company, and The Walt Disney Company. He holds a bachelor's
degree in engineering from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend , Ind. and a
master's degree in applied mathematics from Cleveland State University. He has
published and presented at a wide variety of manufacturing conferences and holds
a variety of patents in manufacturing technologies.
Mr. Coburn's core competencies include developing control and user interfaces for
a wide variety of controllers and applications. He is fluent in C#, PLC code,
Labview and other software packages.
He has been awarded several major prizes, including Control Engineering's
software product of the year (March, 2004).
Contributors
Dr. Andreas Inmann Dr. Andreas Inmann's core competencies
include leading technology development, research, and product commercialization of active implantable medical devices.
He earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science and Engineering, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and an M.B.A. specializing in Marketing,
and has worked with numerous medical devices for various applications in the human body.
Currently, Dr. Inmann provides his services for JDC Consulting as medical device consultant leading and supporting product commercialization activities.
He was Director of Product Development at NDI Medical, leading technology development and commercialization for several innovative neurotech producs.
Previously, Dr. Inmann worked at Metacure in product development and clinical engineering for an implantable stimulation system to treat obesity and diabetes.
Additional experience includes work at Advanced Bionics developing, launching, and sustaining auditory products and product enhancements,
and work as a research scientist at the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering using implantable microstimulators for stroke rehabiliation.
Jay Hardway has been the president and chief engineer of Exactest since 1994.
The focus of his work has been on C programming of embedded microcontrollers for
medical and industrial control applications. These designs involve a broad
spectrum of timing, sensor interfacing, and communications.
He specializes in:
- Data Flow, State Transition, and Structure Diagrams, minispecs, flow charts and
pseudocode using C and Assembler programming for embedded products.
- Real-time
control.
- Analog sensor and transducer circuits including switching, linear
and battery supplies, semiconductors, opAmps, AD and DA conversion.
In addition, he has worked with digital logic, FPGA, CPLD (Altera), microcomputers, memories, RS232/485
and GPIB interfaces.
Patrick Coburn has worked with data manipulation and databases for over
25 years, the last 10 of which has been the database administrator for the
Office of Research and Technology Management at Case Western Reserve University.
He has built a number of large
complex applications, including a system for tracking millions of dollars in
grant applications and awards. Other applications include tracking research
compliance for the university including the conflict of interest, education, and
effort certification.
He specializes in Microsoft SQL Server, with experience in Oracle and
MySQL. Application development toolsets include .NET, ColdFusion, HTML and
Java.
He has served on the board of JDC Consulting since 2005.
Karl Edminster is the founder of Electromechanica, Inc. Mr. Edminster
comes from a background in military hardware design. Prior to founding
Electromechanica, Inc. he worked for Sippican, Inc. (a division of Lockheed
Martin )designing experimental buoyant submarine antenna arrays. His work
included fiber optic based data collection systems, conceptual modeling and
hydrodynamic tow testing. Mr. Edminster worked in the Design and System
Integration Group of Foster-Miller, Inc. His work there involved the
electromechanical design of miniature military robotic systems for advanced
technology demonstrations. This design work included drive and control
electronics, battery systems and payload systems. Mr. Edminster earned his B.S.
degree in Electromechanical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Electromechanica specializes in:
- Functional electronic test systems
- Product development
- Robotic & internal pipe inspection systems
- Instrument design
- Manufacturing and laboratory automation
- Data acquisition & analysis
- Custom equipment design
- Government contracts
They are located in the Boston area but support clients across the nation.
Michael P. Haessly has thirty years of Operations, Project Management, Product
Development and Implementation, Quality Systems and Regulatory Experience in the
Medical Device, Automotive, Consumer Products and Chemical Industries where he
has served as a Director of Quality and COO. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black
Belt (CSSBB), Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE),
Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified
Reliability Engineer (CRE), and Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) and
is one of approximately 20 people in the world to obtain this level of
certification. He holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in Chemical
Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
He is experienced in
continuous improvement for both manufacturing and transactional processes and in
implementing Lean initiatives into high speed and manual assembly operations as
well as batch processes in the automotive, medical device and consumer
industries. He has managed development and improvement programs on both products
and processes and is experienced in stage gate methodologies. He has developed
and implemented project prioritization methodologies to identify and segregate
both viable and non-viable product and projects.
He is a leader in developing
and deploying ISO certified quality systems from the ground up and in the
transitioning of quality systems from ISO 9000 to ISO 13485 as well as
integrating multiple plant systems into an overall corporate system. He has
cradle to grave experience in bringing new products from inception to full
production implementation and has lead cross functional development teams on
multi-million dollar development programs meeting both time and budgetary
constraints. He has designed and put into full production over 16 products and
handled all stages of production implementation including inception, prototype
development, tooling and plant equipment design and installation, production
ramp-up and final full-scale implementation using DFSS, DOE, Value Stream
Mapping, and FMEA tools.
He is an expert in statistical analysis of experimental
data and experienced in FDA regulations, FDA audits, ISO 9000/13485, and GMP
requirements.