Heat Treat Consultants

Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultant: John Clarke

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Heat Treat Consultants is a comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants offered as part of Heat Treat Today’s efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” In this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”, we will introduce you to the experts listed in this growing directory. Today, learn more about John Clarke of Combustion Innovations, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business-related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn. 

Name: John Clarke
Company Name: Combustion Innovations
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Energy Manufacturing
  • New Business Development & Product Development
  • Engineering
  • Strategic Planning

 

 

Send an email | Website | Phone: (260)478-1000

Briefly:

John has served the heat treating community for several years in various roles with the Industrial Heating Equipment Association (including president in 2007). After a few years with Maxon Corporation, where he was Vice President of Business Development, primarily responsible for strategic alliance development, planning, and marketing, John began a career with Diamond Engineering Company in 2004, eventually leading the company as president. As a consultant for Diamond, he has worked with a range of corporate and organizational clients, including the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Lab, Purdue University Technical Assistance Program, and Union Gas. In addition, John has been the director of Sales and Technology at Combustion Innovations, Inc. in Fort Wayne, Indiana, since its founding in 2016, where he oversees product development, engineering, and sales and marketing of the company, seeking new techniques to maximize efficiency and minimize time for repair. John shares his expertise and knowledge in various roles as a trainer, a speaker/presenter at heat treating and other industry conferences and workshops, a researcher and author. He holds 3 U.S. patents for heat processing equipment.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Workshop Participant, “Roadmap for Process Heating Technology Priority Research & Development Goals and Near-Term NonResearch Goals To Improve Industrial Process  Heating”, Industrial Heating Equipment Association/Office of Industrial Technologies (Department of Energy), 1999
  2. Chair, Process Heating Steering Committee, assisting the Department of Energy in giving voice to end users’s needs (2002-2004)
  3. Member, IHEA (2004 to present)
  4. President of the IHEA (2007), following serving as Vice-President, 2nd Vice-President and Treasurer
  5. Presenter, “Convert a Compliance Energy Audit from an Impediment to Opportunity”, International ThermProcess Summit, Chicago, Illinois (2016)
  6. Certified Trainer for the Department of Energy, listed as a Process Heating Assessment and Survey Tool (PHAST) Qualified Specialist (current, June 2018)
  7. Holds 3 U.S. Patents for heat processing equipment.
  8. Worked with IHEA and U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the International Standard Organization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) to consider, develop and recommend formal proposals for changes on ISO documents regarding method of energy balance and efficiency.
  9. Author of articles published on LinkedIn and Process-Heating.

Links to Online Resources

References (partial list):

Linkedin| Industrial Heating Equipment Association

 

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Meet the Consultants: Matt Orfe

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about Matt Orfe of AeroSPC, Inc., and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn. 

Name: Matt Orfe
Company Name: AeroSPC, Inc.
Location: Independence, Ohio, USA
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Manufacturing & Lean Manufacturing
  • Product Development; Int’l Sales
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Metallurgy; FMEA

Email| Website | Phone: (856) 220-7974

Briefly:

Matt Orfe brings over 30 years of experience to the heat-treating and foundry industries. He holds an informed and practical perspective on the industry, having held positions from the factory floor all the way to upper management. He is an expert on equipment solutions and finding the perfect resources for process needs. His training program, “The ABC’s of VAB,” is geared toward companies that are looking to begin vacuum aluminum brazing or have lost process knowledge and wish to regain VAB ability. He is currently the head of sales and VAB product management for Aero SPC, Inc. Matt specializes in lean manufacturing, product development, and international sales.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. International Sales Manager for Inductotherm Corp. (1970-1983).
  2. Division Manager for Electrical Melting Services Co. (1992-2007).
  3. Vacuum Brazing Product Manager for Consarc Corp. (2007-2014).
  4. Head of Sales and VAB product management for Aero SPC, Inc.
  5. Presented on “Advancements in Vacuum Aluminum Brazing” at the 2012 AeroMat Conference and Exposition.
  6. Creator of the training program, “The ABC’s of VAB.”

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References available upon request from Consultant

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Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultants: George Totten

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about George E. Totten of  G.E. Totten & Associates, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn. 

Name: George E. Totten
Company Name: G.E. Totten & Associates
Location: Seattle, Washington
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Heat Treating & Thermal Processes
  • Fluids & Lubricants
  • Advanced Quenching Technology & Engineering
  • Surface Engineering
  • Consulting & Contract Research

Send an email | Website | Phone: 206-788-0188

Briefly:

G. E. Totten & Associates LLC, a research and consulting firm specializing in thermal processing and industrial lubrication problems and related equipment supply, was founded by George E. Totten, Ph.D., FASM. Dr. Totten began with over 31 years of experience before launching his company, and he is widely known from his long-term experience in the heat treating and fluids/lubricants industry. The initial mission of G.E. Totten & Associates LLC was to make global experts in the fields of thermal process, fluids, and lubricants available to those with problems in these areas, regardless of location, through either a consulting or contract research (or both) basis. In time, the initial mission expanded to include providing global technical support in cooling curve analysis, furnaces and equipment, advanced quenching technology and engineering, hydraulic system equipment, and software.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Founder and president of G.E. Totten & Associates LLC (2001 to present).
  2. Research Professor, Portland State University — Portland, Oregon (2004-2015).
  3. Adjunct Professor, Polytechnic University of New York — New York, New York (2001).
  4. Visiting Scholar, Texas A&M University — College Station, Texas (2005-2006).
  5. Visiting Professor, Department of Engineering, Materials, Aeronautics and Automobile Technology, School of Engineering at São Carlos, University of São Paulo — São Carlos, Brazil (2006 to present).
  6. Associate Professor, Associação Instituto Internacional de Pesquisa — São Carlos, Brazil (2006 to present).
  7. Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University — College Station, Texas (2006-2015).
  8. Associate Professor, Portland State University — Portland, Oregon (2015 to present).
  9. Completed Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry, Dissertation: “Substituted Neopentyl Systems via Silyl Ketene Acetal Chemistry and Acetolysis of Alkyl-Substituted Neopentyl Derivatives” (awarded 1989).
  10. President, International Federation for Heat Treatment & Surface Engineering (IFHTSE) (2002-2004); Fellow of IFHTSE (2005).
  11. Member of ASM International, Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Materials, American Chemical Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, American Society for Testing and Materials, serving on several committees; member-at-large, ASTM Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants.
  12. Recipient of sixteen U.S. patents.
  13. Recipient of American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) Awards, including of Excellence (2000), Sydney D. Andrews Scroll of Achievement (2004), of Merit (2006), Outgoing Chairman Award (2006), Charles B. Dudley Award (2008).
  14. Recipient of ASM Eisenman Award (2017); Hephaestus Award (2016); Nitrex Hephaestus Award (2013); IFHTSE Medal (2011); SAE McFarland Award (2000).
  15. Established George E. Totten Symposium on Quenching — Heat Treating Society of ASM International (2007).
  16. Co-authored or edited 37 books and conference proceedings, including: Handbook of Residual Stress and Deformation of Steel, Editor, ASM International (2002); Steel Heat Treatment Handbook (2 vol.), Editor, CRC Press (2006); Mechanical Tribology: Materials, Characterization, and Applications, Co-editor with Hong Liang, CRC Press (2004); Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology, Co-author with Victor J. De Negri, CRC Press (2017, 2nd ed.); Handbook of Aluminum: Vol. 1: Physical Metallurgy and Processes and Vol. 2, Co-author with D. Scott MacKenzie, CRC Press (2003); Handbook of Quenchants and Quenching Technology, Co-author with C.E. Bates and N.A. Clinton, ASM International (1993); Manual 64, Intensive Quenching Systems: Engineering and Design, Co-author with Nikolai Kobasko, Ph.D., Michael Aronov, Ph.D., and Joseph Powell, ASTM (2010).
  17. Contributor to several articles published by Industrial Heating magazine, ASTM Standardization News magazine and over 100 technical papers for ASTM Technical Committee.
  18. Contributor to or Author or Editor of over 600 publications, including several ASTM publications.

Links to Heat Treat Today or Other Online Resources (a select list):

References (partial list, more available upon request):

Linked In  |  G.E. Totten & Associates  |  ASM International

 

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Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultants: Daniel Kay

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about Dan Kay of Kay and Associates, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn.

Name: Daniel Kay
Company Name: Kay & Associates
Location: Simsbury, Connecticut
Years in Industry: 45+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Brazing Engineering
  • Business Management, Leadership, Training
  • Brazing Auditor, “Expert Witness”
  • Trade Shows, Industry Education

Send an email | Website | Phone: (860) 651-5595

Briefly:

Dan Kay has been involved full-time in brazing engineering for more than 45 years and has been operating his own brazing consulting and training business since 1996, regularly consulting in areas of vacuum and atmosphere brazing, as well as in torch (flame) and induction brazing. Dan has become known worldwide as an excellent seminar leader, trainer, speaker, and well-versed brazing auditor, traveling all over the world not only providing consulting and problem solving but also teaching brazing seminars and conducting in-house brazing-training programs. Numerous publications include his articles on the subject of brazing; in addition, he is a regular contributor to several online resources, including Industrial Heating, VAC AERO, and the Heat Treat Forum. Dan’s extensive knowledge and experience in brazing have also proven useful over the years when companies are seeking an “Expert Witness” in legal matters, enabling clients to bring about resolution to their legal issues, usually without having to go inside a courtroom.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Head brazing engineer on corporate engineering staff for Handy & Harman, New York, N.Y, customer liaison, brazing-training, new product development, and the marketing and advertising for the brazing product line. Also responsible for trade show development, salesmen training, and problem solving for customers. (1974-1980)
  2. Asst. Vice President of Manufacturing, Wall Colmonoy Corporation, Madison Heights, Michigan. Also: plant general manager for the Detroit Processing Plant; Brazing Products Manager (worldwide); Director of the Brazing Engineering Center (WCC’s Detroit-based R&D center for development of brazing products and applications for same). 1980-1995
  3. Conducted semi-annual 3-day furnace brazing seminars in Detroit for Wall Colmonoy along with Robert Peaslee; taught the ASM Brazing Fundamentals course in Materials Park, Ohio, for several years; taught 3-day torch brazing seminars several times each year for more than 7 years while at Handy & Harman.
  4. Contributed to and reviewed brazing information for inclusion in the AWS Welding Handbook, Vol. 4, Metals and their Weldability (Seventh Ed., ©1982, AWS)
  5. Revised and rewrote Chapter 34 (Honeycomb Brazing) for the Fifth Edition (©2007, AWS) of the AWS Brazing Handbook. Also contributed to and reviewed brazing information for inclusion in the AWS Brazing Handbook (Fourth Ed., ©1991, AWS).
  6. Authored several articles published in Industrial Heating, Practical Welding Today, AWS Welding Journal, Heat Treating magazine and ASM International from 1993 to present.
  7. Founded Kay & Associates Brazing Consultants, 1996.
  8. Recipient of Materials Engineering Institute Instructor of Merit Award by ASM International for “excellence in technical expertise, presentation skills, and quality support materials.”
  9. Expert Witness in legal disputes.
  10. Wrote and published the Nicrobraz NewsTM, a highly successful, technical brazing newsletter for Wall Colmonoy Corporation (which was issued 2-3 times per year). It achieved worldwide distribution to over 4,000 recipients.
  11. “Life Member” in both the American Welding Society (AWS) and in ASM International.
  12.  Technical speaker, technical-session chair, host at hospitality suites, and working in booths at numerous international and regional industry trade shows.
  13. Has conducted intensive brazing-engineering training seminars for 45 years (varying in length from 1-day to 5-days) around the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and several Pacific-basin countries, consisting of regionalized general brazing seminars, as well as intensive in-house specialized training seminars for individual companies.

Links to Heat Treat Today or Other Online Resources

References (partial list):

VAC AERO | Kay & Associates Brazing Consultants | Wall Colmonoy Corporation |

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Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultants: Dan Herring, “The Heat Treat Doctor®”

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about Dan Herring, “The Heat Treat Doctor®” and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn.

Name: Dan Herring “The Heat Treat Doctor®”
Company Name: The HERRING GROUP, Inc.
Location: Elmhurst, Illinois
Years in Industry: 45+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Problem Solving & Technical Advice in Heat Treatment, Sintering, Brazing, Metallurgy, Engineering & Material
  • Metallurgical & Failure Analysis
  • Technical Education & Training (SAE-ARP-1962, Nadcap)
  • Marketing Studies, State-of-the-Industry Reports
  • New Product & Business Development

Send an email | Website | Phone: 630-834-3017

Briefly: 

Dan Herring, who is most well known as The Heat Treat Doctor®, has been in the industry for over 45 years. He spent the first 25 years in heat treating prior to launching The HERRING GROUP in 1995. His vast experience in the field includes materials science, engineering, metallurgy, equipment design, process and application specialist, and new product research. Dan holds a patent (as a co-inventor), and a broad range of industries are made better for his consulting services in heat treating and sintering, metallurgy, operations, business management, sales and marketing, and technology. In particular, The Heat Treat Doctor strongly believes open sharing of knowledge and discoveries in the field will improve the industry: he holds a position as an associate research professor with the Thermal Processing Technology Center (Illinois Institute of Technology), has written four books and nearly 500 technical articles, and lectures frequently at conferences and workshops worldwide.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Founded The HERRING GROUP (1995)
  2. Associate Research Professor, Thermal Processing Technology Center, Illinois Institute of Technology.
  3. Author of 4 books on heat treatment: 1) Vacuum Heat Treatment: Principles, Practices, Applications, Volume I(BNP Media; 2012); 2) Atmosphere Heat Treatment: Principles, Applications, Equipment, Vol. 1 (BNP Media, 2014); 3) Atmosphere Heat Treatment: Atmospheres, Quenching, Testing, Vol. 2 (BNP Media, 2015); 4) Vacuum Heat Treatment: Applications, Equipment, Operation, Volume II (BNP Media, 2016); as well as U.S. Government publications, including The Influence of Process Variables on Vacuum Carburizing (U.S. Department of Energy, 1995)
  4. Author or co-author of over 425 technical articles on Heat Treatment Processes at The Heat Treat Doctor’s Technical Library as well as The Heat Treat Doctor’s Heat Treat Hints .
  5. Co-inventor of patented “method of carburizing steel comprising carburizing steel under vacuum utilizing as the carburizing gas an aliphatic alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, preferably methanol and natural gas additions.” (Patent No. US4386973A)
  6. A frequent lecturer at local, national and international conferences
  7. Consulting Technical Editor and Monthly Contributor, Industrial Heating, including over 500 articles and blog posts
  8. Contributing Writer: Vac Aero, Fastener World, Fastener Technology International, Heat Treating Progress, Wire Forming Technology International, Gear Solutions, and more (see list linked under #4)
  9. Member: ASM International, American Gas Association “Hall of Fame”
  10. One of the “25 Most Influential People in the North American Heat Treating Industry” (The Monty, 2007, 2009)

Links to Heat Treat Today or Other Online Resources from This Consultant (a select list)

References (partial list):

LinkedIn.com |  The Heat Treat Doctor  |  Vac Aero  |  Industrial Heating  | Thermal Processing Technology Center

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Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultants: Adeel Karim

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about Adeel Karim in below’s inaugural entry, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn.

Name: Adeel Karim
Company Name: Doctor Furnace, Inc.
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
Years in Industry: 15+
Consulting Specialties: Pyrometry /Nadcap Implementation

Email: Adeel@doctorfurnace.com | Phone: 614-519-0740, 352-315-9090

Briefly:

Adeel Karim is Doctor Furnace, the role he took on not long after he founded Heat Treat Professionals, Inc., in 2002 to provide clients with Nadcap and heat treating consulting. He went on to launch Doctor Furnace Inc. which continues to contribute to the industry today by offering clients expertise in pyrometry and Nadcap implementation (specification knowledge includes: AMS 2750,  PWA F40, BAC 5621, RPS, DPS 1.700, GE P10TF1 and F3, and Bell Helicopter to name just a few), as well as the latest and best products and services to the heat treatment industry. Adeel operates as a training specialist and private consultant in pyrometry in all aspects of the industry, including to Fortune 500 companies in aerospace and defense, and is currently on the lecturing circuit for pyrometry. In addition, Adeel is also part owner of ZK SONS, Inc, a holding company of IT, agriculture, and vocational education companies, and a concierge jeweler specializing in custom diamond and luxury watches with offices in Tampa, Dubai, and Karachi under the business name of Carats & Cents.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Founded Heat Treat Professionals Inc. (2002).
  2. Founded Doctor Furnace Inc. (2004).
  3. Nadcap heat treat consultant and pyrometry expert for Boeing, Lockheed, Rolls Royce, GE Aircraft, Pratt & Whitney, and Safran Snecma Group amongst others. Implementation of Nadcap in heat treatment, chem processing, welding, and NDT amongst others.
  4. Author of “The Latest on AMS 2750 Rev. E”, published at Industrial Heating (2014).
  5. GAP analysis, procedure writing, training, cap ex survey , and Nadcap response development support.
  6. Record 228 companies with zero failures in any discipline in attaining Nadcap Accreditation.
  7. Global Lecturer & Consultant for the latest revisions of AMS 2750, CQI 9, BAC 5621, RPS 953, PWA F40, and GE P10 T F3.
  8. Consultant with GE Aviation (2011-2013).

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References available upon request from the Consultant

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