Railway Interchange 2019

Tim Standish
Quality Manager
Progress Rail, A Caterpillar Company


Tim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. He joined Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in LaGrange, IL as a manufacturing engineering intern and later hired on full time as a gage control supervisor. Over the last 25 plus years at Electro-Motive Tim has held other roles in quality including quality assurance supervisor, quality engineer and quality manager. During that time, Tim was instrumental in launching the Built in Quality system as a Caterpillar pilot facility resulting in quality improvements in both product and processes. Tim has been an ASQ certified quality engineer since 1997. Tim also held other positions over the years including customer engineer which helped understand various locomotive mechanical issues and help with resolution to those problems through problem solving and troubleshooting methodology. Later he became supervisor of that group. Also, during his employment, Tim attended DePaul University obtaining a Master’s in Business with a Marketing concentration in which he put to good use marketing engine components and emission kits. Later positions included production manager overseeing crankcase, turbocharger and engine manufacturing.

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