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Metal Stamping, Metal Forming, Stamping Dies, Stamping Die Design, and Deep Drawing
Expert is the owner of the training and consulting firm. He is journeyman tool and die maker and stamping process engineer. Expert Has over 41 years of metalworking experience. For the last 21 years, Expert has been the author of…
Beverage Packaging, Glass Bottles, R&D, Packaging Standards and Supplier Qualifications
Expert has applied his business and engineering training in the development of packaging systems (cans, bottles, and kegs) within the brewing industry. These designs have ranged from bottles or cans developed for specific brand related objectives, to the rationalization of…
Minimizing Production Start Up Problems, NPD, Cold Heading, Fastener Applications
Cold Heading A total of 20+ years experience in the cold heading of specialty parts, screws, bolts, and solid rivets primarily for the automotive and appliance markets. He has experience in tool design, establishing forming sequences, cost estimating, manufacturing troubleshooting,…
New Product Development, Lean, Six Sigma Blackbelt, Semiconductors/MEMS
Expert has had extensive process engineering experience with a variety of types of CVD reactors, including atmospheric, vacuum/thermal, and plasma enhanced. He has developed copper CVD precursors, developed low-stress/controlled stress dielectric films, and metal films. He wrote a book on…
Waterway Project Planning & Engineering Design, EIS’s, Permitting, Contaminated Sediment Remediation
Land-Forming and Waterway Engineering Project Development The processes associated with stepping through the “Project Continuum” associated with today’s high complexity/high diversity land-forming and waterway engineering projects are overwhelming. To progress through the gauntlet, each project must comprehensively address a spectrum…
Metal Containers, Glass Containers, Beverage Packaging, Technology Development
Expert has filling process knowledge for carbonated beverages with Coors Brewing and with soft drink filling locations to lower package oxygen levels, improve product yield, decrease defects. Engineering at Colorado State University. He has designed high speed packaging machinery and…
Digital Printing, Inks, Flexible Packaging, Coatings Materials & Processes, UV Cure, Printed Electronics
Some clients call expert "our reserve technical director", referencing his ability to succeed with any activity a manufacturing technical director may be assigned. Such activities range from issues a vendor may have with its suppliers through to those of an…
Forensic Engineering, Failure Analysis, Metallurgy, Corrosion, Slip and Fall, Mechanical Design, R&D
Expert is a registered & Board-Certified Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, with 74 publications, 23 Invited Talks and Lectures, and 27+ years of experience in engineering R&D in industry and academia, Consulting, and Expert Witness Litigation Support including…
Resistance Welding, Laser Welding, Arc Welding, Ultrasonic Welding, Brazing, and Soldering
He has extensive experience in brazing starting with his PhD (Penn State) in brazing of structural ceramics. He worked on the Alumnia-Titanium system using an active braze alloy of Ag-Cu-Ti composition. Active brazing has found wide acceptance in brazing of…
Petrochemical Process Design, Metals Processing, Activated Carbon, Marketing New Ideas
Expert has 15 years of experience in marketing research. He worked for eight years in marketing research at Amoco, four years as Director of Marketing Research. His major contributions at Amoco include: guiding Amoco’s marketing research to enhance and defend…