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Metal Casting, Aluminum
Expert has over 25 years of experience with tooling design, casting methods, cast product design, machining initialization, and manufacturing methods. His expertise includes aluminum solidification and heat treatment, x-ray analysis and related physical properties, and aluminum corrosion protective coatings. Expert…
Design for Manufacturability, Mass Customization, Build-to-Order, Concurrent Engineering
Expert is a const reduction expert that helps companies reduce cost as much as half the total cost through product development and cost savings through on-demand production and spontaneous (pull based) supply chains. He has developed leading-edge methodologies that show…
Weld Structure, Tanks, Vessels
Expert (pronounced ma-kit-ka, ) has over 35 years experience in practical applications requiring consideration of materials, toughness, impact energy and resistance, tensile strength, yield strength, and ductility of metals. This includes experience with properties of welds and weldments, and ASME…
Microwave and Combination Oven Development, Food Heating Technology and Oven Calibration Services
Expert has been completely involved with microwave (MW) appliance cooking technology since 1969. He has expertise in developing gas and electrical combination microwave ovens and cookers, for consumer, foodservice, vended hot-food, and bakery equipment applications. He has developed microwave ovens…
Machine Vision
Expert (pronounced zoo-ick, and ) has been involved in applying machine vision, pattern recognition, and three dimensional machine vision for over 20 years, the last 10 as an independent consultant. He is Certified as a Manufacturing Engineer in machine vision…
Metal Cutting & Manufacturing
MANUFACTURING. Expert (prefers Cy) has spent his entire career attempting to find the lowest cost method for making the highest quality products. This involves: customer-needs analysis; product design for function, conventional machining, manufacturability, testing and durability, part-making and assembly techniques;…
Fact-Based Problem Solving: DoE, Taguchi, ISO 9002, Weibull, Manufacturing Cost Control, Design
Expert is concerned with controlling manufacturing costs and improving product quality through fact-based decisions, including design of experiments, statistical process control, and similar techniques. His A2Q Method(TM) was used to simultaneously develop a new heat exchanger and the production procedures…
Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Processing, Materials Failure Analysis
Expert has gained extensive experience in the uses of ferrous metals and alloys (carbon and alloy steel, high strength steel, structural steel, heat resistant steel), non-ferrous metals and alloys, superalloys, stainless steels (austenitic, ferritic, martensitic, and precipitation hardening grades), tool…
Corrosion, Material Selection
ALLOY CORROSION; METAL CORROSION; SOLUTION CORROSION. Since 1980, Expert has been actively involved in solving aqueous corrosion problems. He has also recommended appropriate materials for corrosive services. Besides metals, he has a good understanding of the effects of corrosion on…
Fatigue, Spate Methods, NDE, Product Liability, Thermomechanics, etc.
LIFE PREDICTION METHODOLOGIES FOR COMPONENTS OF STRUCTURES, MACHINES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Expert's work centers on life prediction methodologies for components of structures, machines, and electronic devices. The major parameters of interest are stress, strain, time, temperature, and damage. These quantities…