Conveyors: Application, Selection, and Integration
暫譯: 輸送帶：應用、選擇與整合

這個新版本繼續介紹各種不同類型的輸送帶及其應用方法。

Patrick McGuire has been in the material handling industry for more than twenty years. He has a BS degree in computer integrated manufacturing systems and a professional engineering license for industrial engineering. He started with a very small conveyor manufacturer in upstate New York, J & S Conveyors, where he was the engineering manager. They designed and built a wide variety of conveyors, and manufactured tabletop chain conveyors, flat belt conveyors, heavy unit load conveyors, and troughed belt conveyors. After J & S, he went to work for Rapistan, the world's largest manufacturer of material handling systems, specializing in unit handling, primarily distribution systems. Rapistan has since been bought by Siemens AG. McGuire was involved with the office that also specialized in building in-process manufacturing systems, such as one-of-a-kind conveyors and systems for giants Corning, Kodak, Xerox, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. He worked as a senior systems engineer and a project manager.

After ten years of custom product and system design, he took a position with the products group, where he worked on such things as the high-speed divert for airport baggage after which becoming the product manager for the heavy unit load product line. In that position McGuire led a group of engineers in designing, documenting, and selling a full line of pallet handling conveyors. He has since worked as the director of product engineering for American Ironhorse Motorcycles, and the director of manufacturing and technology for Transnorm System, a specialty conveyor manufacturer. Following Transnorm he was the manager of engineering services and director of manufacturing for Glidepath. As a member of CEMA, he co-authored or edited several chapters of the new CEMA Application Guide for Unit Handling Conveyors.

Since leaving Glidepath he was director of engineering at Orteq, a company specializing in heavy equipment for the oil and gas industry. From there he was director of engineering at the Vince Hagan company designing portable and stationary concrete batch plants. There has designed the only concrete plant to fit in a military transport aircraft for the US military. Currently he is a senior project engineer at N. J. Malin and Associates where he leads and mentors a group of engineers and draftsman in the art of material handling problem solving. He and his team have worked with such companies as Mars Wrigley, Ariat, CEVA, Texas Instruments, DHL, UPS, and AT&T delivering unique material handling solutions across the US and Mexico.

Patrick McGuire 在物料處理行業已經工作超過二十年。他擁有計算機整合製造系統的學士學位以及工業工程的專業工程師執照。他最初在紐約州北部的一家非常小的傳送帶製造商 J & S Conveyors 擔任工程經理。該公司設計和製造各種傳送帶，包括桌面鏈傳送帶、平帶傳送帶、重型單元負載傳送帶和槽型帶傳送帶。在 J & S 工作之後，他加入了全球最大的物料處理系統製造商 Rapistan，專注於單元處理，主要是分配系統。Rapistan 後來被西門子（Siemens AG）收購。McGuire 參與了專門建造過程製造系統的辦公室，例如為康寧（Corning）、柯達（Kodak）、施樂（Xerox）、通用汽車（General Motors）、福特（Ford）和克萊斯勒（Chrysler）等巨頭設計的獨特傳送帶和系統。他擔任高級系統工程師和專案經理。

在十年的定制產品和系統設計之後，他轉到產品組，參與了機場行李的高速分流系統，隨後成為重型單元負載產品線的產品經理。在這個職位上，McGuire 帶領一組工程師設計、記錄和銷售全系列的托盤處理傳送帶。此後，他擔任美國 Ironhorse 摩托車的產品工程總監，以及 Transnorm System 的製造和技術總監，該公司是一家專業的傳送帶製造商。在 Transnorm 之後，他成為 Glidepath 的工程服務經理和製造總監。作為 CEMA 的成員，他共同撰寫或編輯了新版本的《CEMA 單元處理傳送帶應用指南》的幾個章節。

自從離開 Glidepath 之後，他成為 Orteq 的工程總監，該公司專注於石油和天然氣行業的重型設備。之後，他在 Vince Hagan 公司擔任工程總監，設計可攜式和固定式混凝土攪拌廠。他設計了唯一一個能夠適應美國軍方運輸機的混凝土廠。目前，他是 N. J. Malin and Associates 的高級專案工程師，負責領導和指導一組工程師和繪圖員解決物料處理問題的藝術。他和他的團隊曾與 Mars Wrigley、Ariat、CEVA、德州儀器（Texas Instruments）、DHL、UPS 和 AT&T 等公司合作，提供獨特的物料處理解決方案，遍及美國和墨西哥。