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John F. Hinrichs (1936 – 5 June 2012) was an American Welding Engineer and Founder, Part Owner and Vice President Technology of the company Friction Stir Link, Inc. in Brookfield, Wisconsin. == Career and Education == Hinrichs had a 40-year plus career with A.O. Smith Corporation, where he rose to Director of Manufacturing Engineering at its Automotive Products Co., leading a technical staff of eighty. Projects included gas metal arc welding, energy beam processes, solid phase joining and robotics.〔(Stir Link Inc: Founder and Vice President of Technology - John F. Hinrichs. )〕 Hinrichs began working for A.O. Smith, a major producer of automotive frames, in 1954. He became a project engineer in the mid-1960s and began supervising the development of the robot applications for welding and other manufacturing processes in the early 1970s. As manager of the Manufacturing Technology Laboratory.〔Sharon Chen and Nancy Hromadka (ed.): (John F. Hinrichs, winner of the International Golden Robot Award. ) The Wisconsin engineer, Volume 94, No. 3 (March 1990), Pages 20-21.〕 Under Hinrichs’s leadership AOS produced over 100 million electron beam welded tailored blanks, and installed and operated over 1,000 gas metal arc welding robots – the largest such application, worldwide, at that time. He was one of the earliest proponents of the industrial application of friction stir welding to automotive lightweight structures. He also developed procedures and specifications that were used in the manufacture of friction stir welded panels for the littoral combat ships of the US Navy. Hinrichs received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University in 1956, and his master’s in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1964. He held fifteen U.S. and three foreign patents related to welding processes. As a foreign language he spoke fluent German on an advanced level. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Hinrichs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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