For its precision and practicality, Mr. Aldrich’s precision decimal inch tape measure is relied upon by engineers and assemblers at organizations of note.
CLARION, IA, January 17, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ — Charles Aldrich has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Having earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in the late 1980s, Mr. Aldrich went on to work for various technology, manufacturing, energy, software, and engineering companies, among others, for the next three decades, gaining experience and applying his expertise. Upon graduating with his bachelor’s, he applied his knowledge and skill set as a manufacturing engineer and design engineer at Sun Air, Quadrax, Hillerich & Bradsby, SEMCO Energy, and SciMed Solutions.
In 2000, Mr. Aldrich stepped into the role of senior manufacturing engineer at Physical Electronics, a position he had for over a year, before applying his expertise at companies such as Emerson Network Power, now Vertiv, as well as Hagie Manufacturing and John Deere. After working as an engineer for L&T Technology Services, contract to McNellis, in 2019, he went on to establish his own company, Aldrich Engineer LLC in 2020, through which he sells his patented precision decimal inch tape measure that measures in decimal inches for easier reading and more accuracy of measurements.
In all he has achieved, Mr. Aldrich attributes his success to the impressive accomplishments that have compounded over the course of his career. As early as college, he found success in his field by writing computer science programs, one used as a basis for a doctoral thesis; as he progressed in his knowledge, he went on to develop a French fry vending mix used by McDonald’s and tension control, showcasing his diverse skill set. To date, Mr. Aldrich cites his most recent achievement as obtaining the utility patent 11,796,294 for his precision decimal inch tape measure, the design of which does not use fractions and thereby eliminates the need for conversion time and errors in measurement.
For its precision and practicality, Mr. Aldrich’s precision decimal inch tape measure is relied upon by engineers and assemblers at organizations of note, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, three year olds learn numbers, counting and measuring using a precision decimal inch tape measure while in preschool. Furthermore, he holds a patent 9004423 for the T-post platform, a mount for metal fence posts of the T post design, for various items that was initially designed to be a platform for mounting a sprinkler. In five years, Mr. Aldrich aims to increase the sales of his precision decimal inch tape measure to additional organizations and government agencies.
Mr. Aldrich served four years in the Marines, earning a Good Conduct Medal and a Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. He rode his bicycle to 49 states during the summers of 1981, 1982 and 1983. He has skydived over 400 times and is jumpmaster rated. He is the winner of a 1978 Southern California pool tournament and has competed in various square dance competitions; at the 2017 Wisconsin convention he placed first and in national conventions in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 he placed second.
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