Engineering & Product Development Consulting

Miles Loretta is a retired engineering executive from Cincinnati Machine, formerly Cincinnati Milacron. His design and engineering experience spans over 40 years, both in the corporate environment, and since 2001 as a consultant to various companies in the US and Asia. He has created business process improvements internally at Cincinnati Machine, as well as providing process and systems improvements for the organizations where he has been a consultant. He has established joint venture relationships between US and Taiwanese companies, and has provided oversight on numerous projects between the organizations.

His most recent project was leading the development of a new global Thermal Energy Deburring Machine for Extrude Hone/Kennametal. This project required travel to Ireland, England, Germany, Japan and China. This international experience provides a well-rounded consultant for any world-wide project.

As a technical/project management consultant, Mr. Loretta’s experience lends itself to process, system, and procedure work, as well helping companies develop creative business opportunities. He has extensive experience with conflict resolution, negotiation and leadership, skills necessary for the corporate environment.

Miles’ experience also includes leading design projects such as a proprietary project with the Boeing Corporation. He was Chairman of Cincinnati Milacron’s Product Safety Audit Committee where he led the safety audits for all new products. He also trained over 100 engineers in the use of HAS (a tool for analyzing safety situations). Additionally, Miles chaired an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) committee to develop a new safety standard for machine tools.

Miles has a Mechanical Engineering Degree from Ohio State University and has been a manager and leader within the engineering field for most of his career. He led innovative work that resulted in several Taiwanese patents and holds five US Patents:

• 2008 – A method and apparatus for loading TEM machine work chambers
• 2009 – A TEM machine with interchangeable components for processing different size parts
• 2004 – A two axis vibration damper for a horizontal machining center
• 1997 – A special two-piece hydraulic valve spool for balancing flow for clockwise and counter clockwise rotation
• 1994 – A vibration dampener for a digital scale reader head-mounting bracket

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