Qualifications
Degree in Physics
Specialized in Electrical, Electronic and Industrial Physics
Universidad de Barcelona (1985)
Master Degrees of Labour Risks Prevention
Specialities: Security, Work Hygiene, Ergonomic and Psychology.
Co-operating Entity with Administration (ECA Formación). Grupo Bureau Véritas. (2008)
Work Experience
Experience based on the optical business, either in casting of finished and semi finished lenses or on RX laboratories. Linked to the chemical industry applied to manufacturing technology of organic lenses, production and as a consultant for companies manufacturing organic lenses.
Latest improvements are High index tinting using H&K machine, Anti-fog dipping process with SCL machine, Therapeutic colours, Blue Block process with external company and Trivex dipping process yield.
This experience helped me to develop skills with people and in machinery management, maintenance of the equipment involved in the process and general facilities, continuous improvement processes in new facilities, both at home and abroad , working for objectives and production costs.
In this context, team work, learning abilities to adapt to new situations, both technical and organizational and interact with managers from different departments such as R & D, planning, purchasing and IT, are all necessary.
Career Summary
NORVILLE GROUP (Gloucester, UK). Optical Sector.
Lens Coating Quality Manager
From July 2013 to April 2015.
Improving quality issues working closely with the production team. Machine maintenance. Dip coatingprocess with 4 lacquers, spin coating, dye tinting, AR coating. New process development and procedures.
FISA IBERICA SA: Collaboration as a consultant in organic lens manufacturing. Factory located in India (Goa).
Start up of machines and audit of the manufacturing process.
September – October 2012.
CAVAS DEL AMPURDAN S.A.: (Peralada Group). Wine and liqueur sector
Production Engineering.
June 2011- February 2012
Functions: Management of people and machines, from cleaning process to palletizing, in order to achieve daily production of automatic bottling line (30.000 to 60.000 bottles per day, depending on type of wine and designs).
INDO GROUP S.A. Optical sector
Manufacturing and Coating Process Engineering. INDO LENS GROUP.
2009-2011
Functions: Provide technical support to Indo Lens Thailand factory. Adapt manufacturing process
of El Papiol RX lab to raw material from Asian suppliers. Activity is based on new free-form designs, surfacing, tinting, hard coating and AR coating Semi finished lenses in order to supply finished lenses to customers.
Responsible of Engineering Process and Production Technology
INDO VILAFANT
2003-2009
Functions: Develop new manufacturing process of organic lenses, contact with Asian suppliers; building of Indo Thailand factory; start up and transfer of new manufacturing process technology. Training courses on manufacturing organic lenses for workers.
Organic Lens Production Engineering. Indo Vilafant.
INDO VILAFANT.
Year 1990-2003
Functions: Increasing production from 10.000 to 22.000 lenses par day. Management of 104 workers and 6 team leaders in three working shifts maximum production. Coordinate general and machines maintenance. Implement ISO 9001, ISO14000 and Labour Risk procedures. Give technical support to external organic lens supplier from Malaysia. Regular visits to monitor and improve process performance (2000-2003). Starting up of organic lens factory located in Joao Pessoa (Brazil). (1998-2000).
Production Technician.
INDO VILAFANT.
Year 1986-1990
Functions: Small productions of new organic lenses. First steps before manufacturing big quantities.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
(Generalitat de Catalunya). Secondary School
Mathematics Teacher in IES Montgrí. March 2012
IES Sant Vicenç dels Horts. October-November 1986
Other Knowledge
a. SPECIALIZED COURSES
Solar Energy Installation. E-learning CENSOLAR (2013-2015)
Quality Course. Quantuvis Consulting (2015)
Certificate in Leadership and Team Skills Level 2 (ILM 2014)
Micro informatics curs: Founded by European Social Fund (600 h). (2013)
Programming Curse of FANUC Robot. Fanuc Robotics Ibérica SL (2006)
Statistical Analysis of errors and failures- AMFE. Institut Català de Tecnología (2003)
Productivity and Organization. Institut Català de Tecnología (2000)
Manufacturing and Projects Management. Tea Cegos: (1999)
b. LANGUAGES
CATALAN Native ENGLISH Fluent (4º EOI)
SPANISH Native FRENCH Fluent (3ª EOI )
c.COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE
– Windows, MS Office user, Internet, etc
– User of software to control and check thermal cycles for OMRON regulators (specific for Indo)
Currículum de Robert Comet Batlle 3/3
d. OTHERS
Driver licence B – Travel availability.
Activities related to sport: Football player and junior football team representative.
Private classes: for high school students and first year of colleg
