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Silicone, RTV Rubber
ROOM TEMPERATURE VULCANIZING (RTV) RUBBER; SILICONE ELASTOMER. Expert spent a significant portion of his career in the area of silicone RTVs. He has applied his expertise in developing new processes, test techniques, and troubleshooting manufacturing systems. His work has led…
Product Design and Manufacturing, Materials, Fastening and Joining, Consumer Product and Safety
Expert was responsible, as a project engineer, for the origination of four product lines that have achieved No.1 with Consumer Reports, plus a significant contributor to others. Clients have ranged from start-ups to Kirby, Stratasys, Black & Decker, Toro, Andersen…
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…
Program/Project Management for Manufacturing Companies, New Product Development, Thru Monitoring
Expert and his associates run a nine year old company whose 10 multi-disciplinary professionals provide PROJECT/PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, COMPUTER, and STRATEGIC PLANNING consulting/training services to manufacturing, design and construction industries. His firm assists clients in completing their planned project goals and…
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;…
Failure Analysis of Materials
MATERIAL FAILURE ANALYSIS; ADHESIVE FAILURE; COMPOSITE FAILURE; METAL FAILURE. Expert's (pronounced Wall-teen) principal occupation has been in the analysis of failures of machine components, including orthopedic (surgical) implants. Materials analyzed include metals and alloys of all types, polymers, elastomers, composites,…
Food Sensory Science, Food Acceptability, Food Texture, Satiety, Food Choice, Consumption
Food Sensory Science; Food Sensory Testing: For the past 30 years, Expert has taught and researched aspects of sensory analysis of foods. Part of this time was devoted to studying food textures, specifically crispness, crunchiness, and viscosity. More recently she…
Semiconductor Processing and Equipment
Expert has more than 23 years experience in the semiconductor industry, much of this time in a technical management position at Intel. He has hands-on experience with nearly every facet of processing silicon wafers to manufacturing semiconductor devices. His strength…
Project Management, OPM3, Pick, Data Warehouses, Primavera Cost Manager
The advent of the relational database was part of Expert's initial development work. For more than 20 years he has helped companies use the multi-dimensional model effectively. His primary professional focus is the effective use of relational multi-dimensional database in…
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…