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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…
Air Quality-Toxics, Ambient, IAQ
Since 1969, Expert has involved most of his career with air quality consulting of some kind. He has executed or managed air monitoring studies of up to two million dollars in scope. These have included studies of criteria pollutants, dioxin,…
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…
Paper Coating Rheology, Coating Processes, and Coater Operation
VISCOSITY; VISCOMETER; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT. Expert has over 18 years experience on viscosity and viscosity measurements of pigmented coatings and their interpretation related to high-speed coating operations. He has been instrumental in the design and data analysis of high- shear viscometers…
Food Rheology; Viscometry; Food Process Engineering; Food Engineering
FOOD RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT. Expert is extensively involved in food rheology research. His experience includes dynamic and steady shear evaluation of rheological properties related to food product development, quality evaluation, quality control, and process engineering design applications. He has consulted…
Food Additives and Ingredients, Food Processing
Expert has had over 30 years of experience in food research and food processing technologies. He has engaged in the formulation and preservation of food throughout his professional career. He is familiar with the composition, classification, methods of preservation, nutritional…
Dairy Processing and Products
DAIRY PROCESSING. Expert teaches a course in dairy processing and chemistry, and also does some consulting in the area. At present, he is writing book chapters which cover the basic unit operations in dairy processing. FROZEN DAIRY DESSERTS; FROZEN YOGURT;…
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…
Industrial Hygiene, Diacetyl, Peroxyacetic Acid, Formaldehyde, Asbestos, Ventilation, Regulations, Silica, Workplace & Environmental Noise, Ultrasound, Ultraviolet
Expert has worked as a Senior Industrial Hygienist for over 30 years, during much of that time he was a professor in the field. His extensive knowledge base lends a helping hand as a consultant and expert witness. His passion…