
Chief Engineer, Material Handling
Dan Hagen is a 20 year PAR employee with an additional 20 years of experience in custom automation. With degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration, Dan has held several different roles at PAR, currently he is Chief Engineer. Dan has been fortunate to have led or been part of teams that have developed unique automation solutions for a wide variety of industries and applications: Food (raw and packaged), Consumer Goods, Building Products, Aerospace, Space, Metal Fabrication, Automotive, Foundry, Furniture and a host of unusual applications that could be grouped into ‘Other’. Two that stand out: Timely delivery of systems to support production of Humvee armor during the Iraq war and rapid delivery of dispensing systems to produce respirators during the COVID pandemic.