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COMPANY PROFILE
Gerling Applied Engineering, Inc. (GAE) was founded to serve the industrial microwave heating community by offering a comprehensive array of capabilities to support its customers, including in-house fabrication, laboratory testing, process control engineering, and custom product development. A staff of engineering professionals collectively offer over 125 years of expertise in microwave engineering, computer-aided design, precision machining and fabrication, PLC controls and software development.
...is to be the
preferred provider of products and services to users of high power industrial microwave heating equipment.
The development and implementation of new microwave heating technologies will continue at ever increasing rates as equipment costs decrease and reliability increases. As in many other industries this trend is leading to the "commoditization" of high power microwave components by becoming more and more standardized. GAE is committed to the vision that microwave heating equipment will be as easy to own and operate as are motors, pumps, valves and other common industrial equipment components.
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Engineering
- Innovative solutions to unique microwave heating applications.
- Core competency in microwave, electrical, mechanical, software and process engineering.
- Expertise in custom applicator development, consumer microwave appliances, 915 MHz and 2450 MHz equipment.
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Manufacturing
- In-house capabilities and expertise in design, fabrication, electromechanical assembly, testing and quality control.
- Individual components to complete processing systems.
- One-of-a-kind to OEM production.
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Consulting Assistance at all phases of microwave application development, problem and failure analysis, safety compliance assessment, on-site technical seminars and tort litigation.
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Versatility and Agility As a small company, GAE can respond to challenging new opportunities rapidly with unencumbered performance and high quality.
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John F. Gerling, President
As President
of GAE, Mr. Gerling has over 25 years of mechanical engineering and manufacturing experience in industrial microwave heating. Product design experience includes microwave generators, consumer microwave appliances, industrial conveyors, semiconductor processing equipment and a variety of custom applicators and waveguide components.
Mr. Gerling has developed several innovative
solutions for reactive chokes, waveguide
adapters and transitions, impedance matching
elements and variable geometry applicators.
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Rex Viney, Director of Operations
Mr. Viney has over 20 years of electrical
engineering and manufacturing experience
in industrial microwave heating and
military microwave electronics. In
addition to his duties as Director of
Operations, Mr. Viney has spent
significant time as production engineer,
design engineer, project engineer, quality
engineer and quality manager. Expertise
includes the manufacture of microwave
generators, high voltage power supplies,
control systems, and waveguide components.
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Esperanza Anderson, Materials Manager
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Jeffrey Sorenson, IT and Documentation
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Carolyn Bachman, Sales/Finance
Administrator
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Vadim Yakovlev, Ph.D.
A
recognized expert in 3-D computer modeling
of industrial microwave heating systems,
Dr. Yakovlev's expertise includes FDTD-backed
computation and optimization of high
frequency electromagnetic systems, coupled
electromagnetic/heat transfer analysis and
model-based temperature optimization. Dr.
Yakovlev is a Research Associate Professor
in the Department of Mathematical Sciences
and director of the Industrial Microwave
Modeling Group (IMMG) at Worchester
Polytechnic Institute.
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Dr. Lentz provides expertise in theoretical analysis and microwave engineering based on over 25 years background with consumer microwave
appliances, magnetrons, microwave generators, waveguide components and high power delivery systems.
Dr. Lentz is currently involved in product
research and development at California Tube
Laboratory.
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Stephen D. Schultz
Mr. Schultz brings over 20 years of electrical and software engineering experience related to process control and systems development in the pharmaceuticals, petrochemical and food processing industries. Expertise includes PLC programming, motion control, embedded microprocessor controls and MS Windows® application development.
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John E. Gerling
Mr. Gerling (John "Sr") offers a unique and extensive knowledge base in almost all areas of microwave and RF heating technologies, covering over 45 years from early innovations in industrial processing systems to the latest trends in consumer appliances. Expertise includes consumer microwave ovens, microwave generators and systems, magnetron design and failure analysis, human safety and tort litigation.
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