Carl Zeiss IMT

I am happy to report that I have found new employment with Carl Zeiss IMT, an industry leading manufacturer of highly accurate Coordinate Measurement Machines.

I am an Inside Sales Client Specialist, working in the Aftermarket group selling software, software maintenance agreements, training, accessories, calibration, and preventative maintenance to customers who own Zeiss machines.  My territory includes 8 states ranging from Michigan to Texas, and I also support 4 distributors within that territory.

I am located in the Brighton Technical Center, located near the Island Lake Recreation Area and Kensington Metro park.  The building is staffed by inside and outside sales people, project managers, application engineers, service managers & service personnel, software trainers, and machine operators.  The facility includes two large demonstration rooms with a number of machines, and large training room, and a teleconference room.

Carl Zeiss IMT has technical centers in Brighton, MI. and California, and manufacturing facilities in Maple Grove, Minnesota, China, and Germany, with the headquarters in Germany.  The Industrial Metrology division manufactures and sells extremely accurate coordinate measuring machines, which are used to measure the dimensions of machined parts in a manufacturer’s Quality Control dept.  Machined parts manufactured for automotive engines and transmissions, turbochargers, and jet engines have to made to very exact dimensions, which can only be measured by a computer controlled coordinate measuring machine.

Zeiss has other divisions involved in binoculars, riflescopes, spotting scopes, and microscopy instrumentation.  Zeiss was founded in Germany in 1846, and today has 33,000 employees worldwide in 100 countries.

Labels: Personal Development, Sales

The Old John Deere Tractor

I remember spending summer vacations up North in my youth, and riding on the fender of my Grandpa’s old John Deere tractor.  I remember learning how to steer that old green and yellow tractor when I was very young, long before I ever learned how to steer a car.

My dad did some research and emailed me some information about the old Nye Farm John Deere tractor.  Back in 1940, brothers Carl and Mort Nye purchased a brand new John Deere Model H cultivator tractor from McDowell Implements in Rudyard, Michigan for the grand sum of $650.

After many years of faithful service working the Nye Farm, located one half mile north of Hessel, the old John Deere tractor was replaced with a new Ford tractor in 1976.  Carl Nye then gave the John Deere tractor to his nephew, Louis Nye, of Tustin, Michigan.  Over the years Louis Nye completely restored the old John Deere tractor to its original condition.  The picture above is Louis Nye with the old John Deer in Tustin, MI.

On September 18, 2009, Louis Nye drove the fully restored John Deere tractor across the Mackinac Bridge, in a parade of vintage tractors sponsored by the Great Lakes 2 Cylinder Club, of which Louis is a member.  One of 860 participating vintage tractors, the old Nye Farm antique John Deere tractor ran straight and true, completing the trip across the Mackinac Bridge at age 69 years.

Labels: Family, Thoughts