Barbara Veautour has worked as a manufacturing professional in a variety of industries for over 20 years. She began her professional career as a Process Engineer at GenRad in Concord, MA. While at GenRad, Barbara developed her skills in manufacturing processes using Just-In-Time and Kanban principles. She was instrumental in setting up the high-volume cable manufacturing facility and developing the concepts for manufacturing using one piece flow. Along with the development of these progressive processes, Barbara developed significant process knowledge in the areas of PCB manufacturing, cable assembly and system assembly. Barbara was also a member of the initial group of engineers selected for the Advanced Manufacturing Group, chartered to execute concurrent development of product and processes.
Barbara Veautour
After a brief period honing her production support skills in high-volume manufacturing at Simplex Time Recorder, Barbara moved on to a Senior Manufacturing Engineer position at Teradyne, Inc. in Boston. While at Teradyne, Barbara spent much of her time working on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) of printed circuit boards for the ICD and J750 product lines. At the time, these 16-20 circuit boards were on the leading edge of PCB complexity. In addition to her work with DFM, Barbara also spent significant time supporting production processes and prototype builds of new and existing products.
Barbara returned to new product introductions and DFM as a New Product Introduction Engineer at Benchmark Electronics. While at Benchmark, a multi-line contract manufacturer, Barbara was part of a team of engineers supporting one of the company’s largest customers. Barbara did significant work transitioning this customers products to manufacturing, as well as improving the parts per million defect rates on the highest volume products from 100’s of ppm to less than 10 ppm.
After completing her tenure at Benchmark, Barbara moved on to a position as Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Axiowave Networks in Marlboro. While at Axiowave, Barbara developed her skills in process development, supplier engineering, DFM for PCBs and mechanical assemblies. In addition to developing these skills, Barbara led a cross functional team which developed the manufacturing qualification and test procedure. This process outlined the specific set of material, documentation, manufacturability and test parameters a product had to meet in order to be considered production ready. Barbara also performed in-depth investigation and analysis of quality issues to determine root cause and corrective actions for both suppliers and contract manufacturing partners.
After Axiowave ceased operations, Barbara had a brief tenure at Loea Corporation before moving on to her current position at MagneMotion Inc. At MagneMotion, Barbara is responsible for supporting production both in-house and at contract manufacturing partners. Barbara performs new product manufacturability reviews for both PCBs and mechanical assemblies, as well as revisions to existing products. She is responsible for interfacing with contract manufacturing partners and smoothly transitioning MagneMotion’s products to their production environment. Barbara is also responsible for creating assembly process documentation, specifying and developing assembly tools, designing cable assemblies and sourcing alternative components.
Barbara graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Lowell with a B.S. in Industrial Technology. She continued her education at Emmanuel College where she earned an M.S. in Management.