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Materials Engineering for New Designs, Cost Reduction, and Yield Improvement
Expert's experience includes: 1) Working with mechanical and electrical engineers to help make decisions about the materials and processed used to manufacture a product. The decisions include consideration of cost, manufacturability, materials and components lot-to- lot variations, reliability, materials availability,…
Metal Finishing, Parts Cleaning, Electroplating, Electroforming
Expert has production experience with cyanide copper, pyrophosphate, and acid copper plating baths. He has worked in a laboratory environment with both the fluoroborate and alkaline non-cyanide baths. He has used these baths for PWB plating, wafer plating, electroforming, plating…
Corrosion and Metallurgical Failure Analysis
Expert notes that corrosion is a major problem that affects many industries. Expert has spent over forty years studying and solving corrosion problems in the construction, aerospace, defense, petroleum, utility and related industries. He was also the technical editor of…
Electrical Connectors
Expert has applied his physics background to generate a fundamental understanding of temperature generation and material transport in electrical contact spots (a-spots) in bulk electrical interfaces. Over 25 years, his research showed that 1) Sintering effects occur in a-spots even…
Aluminum/Materials Joining and Product Manufacturing
Expert has extensive knowledge and experience in most processes and methods for joining aluminum, having numerous technical publications, presentations, and patents in the area. He consults with clients on process and equipment selection as well as troubleshooting existing operations. Fusion…
Powdered Metals & P/M Products
Expert has founded and operated businesses that produce powdered metal parts. He is the co-founder and President of his organization. The development of metals and alloys has been the focus of his career. He understands thoroughly the manufacturing process that…