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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 George Vander Voort of Vander Voort Consulting LLC, 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 F. Vander Voort
Company Name: Struers Inc./Vander Voort Consulting LLC
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Years In Industry: 50+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Metallurgy & Materials Science
  • Failure/Root Cause Analysis
  • Steel/Alloys/Metals/Materials
  • Mechanical Testing/Corrosion
  • Heat Treatment & Metallography

 

Send an email | Website | Phone: 847-623-7648

Briefly:

George Vander Voort, principal of Vander Voort Consulting and consultant to Struers Inc., is a graduate of Drexel and Lehigh Universities. Drexel presented George with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2005 and the Service to the Profession Award in 2016. He had 29 years’ experience in the steel industry. A past president of the International Metallographic Society and past chairman of ASTM Committee E-4 on Metallography, George has over 438 publications, 6 patents, 445 lectures in 42 countries, a video course, and 7 ASTM standards. Dedicated to technical education to improve the industry, he has taught 269 seminars and courses and has received 36 awards in metallography contests. He was a trustee for ASM International and is on the editorial boards of Praktische Metallographie/Practical Metallography; Metallography, Microstructure and Analysis; Image Analysis and Stereology; and, the International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties. He is a Fellow of ASTM International, ASM International and the International Federation of Heat Treatment and Surface Engineers. As a consultant, George specializes in metallography, failure analysis, and archeometallurgy. He is also a court-certified expert witness in litigations involving failures of metallic components. He is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of Alpha Sigma Mu metallurgy and materials science honorary society and an honorary member of the Polish Society for Stereology.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM (now ASTM International), including a member of committees E-4 on Metallography and E-28 on Mechanical Testing. He served as second and first vice-chairman of E-4 and a four-year term as chairman of E-4 and chaired two international symposia for ASTM E-4. He is a fellow of ASTM. (1966 to present)
  2. Instructor, “Ferrous Physical Metallurgy”, Pennsylvania State University (Allentown campus). (1969-1977)
  3. Active with International Metallographic Society (IMS), including serving as president form 1981 to 1983. (1973 to present)
  4. Adjunct Faculty Member, ASM Metals Engineering Institute/Materials Engineering Institute. (1977 to present)
  5. Adjunct Faculty Member, “Optical Metallography”, (Met 319), Lehigh University. (Spring 1981)
  6. Series editor of Microstructural Science and chair or co-chair of 10 symposia. (1983-1989)
  7. Chairman of E.04.14 on Quantitative Metallography where he developed and wrote 9 standards for both manual and automated quantitative metallographic measurements.  (1982-1998)
  8. Instructor of several courses, workshops, seminars and presentations, including “Metallography and Failure Analysis,” United Technologies Research Center, E. Hartford, CT (December 4-8, 1989); “DST-TAP Foundry Course on Metallography, Interpretation and Measurement of Microstructure and Fractures,” Mintek, Randburg, South Africa (June 6-10, 2011); and “Post Conference Metallography Workshop,” Ferrous 2012 – Ferrous and base Metals Development Network Conference, 5 lectures (October 18, 2012), South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Mount Grace Country House & Spa, Magaliesburg, South Africa (October 18, 2012); and 87 one-week courses for ASM’s Metals Engineering Institute (MEI), 117 courses for Buehler, and 65 for other societies, companies and universities. (445 lectures in 42 countries; spoken 84 times at 52 ASM chapters)
  9. Principle author of 438 publications, including Metallography: Principles and Practice (orig. pub. date, 1989; ASM Int’l pub date, 1999), Buehler’s Guide to Material’s Preparation; editor of 18 books; author of 29 articles in various editions of ASM Metals Handbook series.Produced 11 of the 14 videotapes in the ASM video course, Principles of Metallography.
  10. Author of 7 ASTM standards.
  11. Holds 6 patents.
  12. Developed micrographs used within or on the covers of over 180 books, magazines, newsletters, brochures or calendars.
  13. U.S. representative to the International Standards Organization, ISO, sub-committee on tests other than chemical and mechanical (SC 7 of TC 17). He revised two ISO standards and wrote one new standard. (1989 – 2014)
  14. Received IMS President’s Award. (1987)
  15. Received the ASTM Award of Merit. (1987)
  16. Founded Vander Voort Consulting LLC (now principal and president). (1990)
  17. Received the Anthony DeBellis Memorial Award from ASTM E-28 for his work on microindentation hardness testing. (1990)
  18. Hired by Nuclear Regulatory Commission to assess the metallographic study performed at Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho Falls National Engineering Laboratory on the lower head of Unit 3 nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island site that failed in 1979. (1993)
  19. Received the Bradley Stoughton Award of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of ASM. (1993)
  20. Associate editor of Materials Characterization. (1994-2004)
  21. Member of the editorial boards of La Metallurgia Italiana, Praktische Metallographie/Practical Metallography, and the Int’l Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties.
  22. Received 36 awards for work in metallography contests, including the Jacquet-Lucas Grand Prize. (1992)
  23. Received the L.L. Wyman Memorial Award from E-4. (1994)
  24. Examined heavily eroded structural steel from the World Trade Center for FEMA after the 9/11 attack to determine the reasons for the severe deterioration, particularly for Building 7 which was not impacted by the terrorists. (2001)
  25. Worked on several cases such as semi-submersible and fixed oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, locomotive axles that broke and caused derailments, collapsed Loran Towers, and others. He is a court-certified expert witness in microstructural aspects of failures.
  26. Received Henry Clifton Sorby Award. (2004)
  27. Received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Drexel University. (2005)
  28. Received the Roland Mitsche prize of the Montanuniversitat Leoben (Austria) for his contributions to metallography. (2006)
  29. Honors received: Distinguished Life Member and Fellow of Alpha Sigma Mu honorary scholastic society for materials science majors (2008); elected to the board in 2009 and became vice president in 2011; September 2009 issue of Practical Metallography was dedicated to George’s 65th birthday.
  30. Received the J.R. Vilella Award for his revision of Vol. 9 of the ASM Handbook, Metallography and Microstructures (2004 edition). (2006)
  31. Materials Scientist, Struer, Inc.. (2010 to present)
  32. Received the Service to Our Profession Award from Drexel University. (2016)

Links to Online Resources (a select list)

References (partial list):

LinkedIn | Industrial Heating Equipment Association | VAC AERO INTERNATIONAL | ASTM International

 

 

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Meet the Consultants: John Tartaglia

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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 Tartaglia of Element Materials Technology 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 Tartaglia
Company Name: Element Materials Technology
Location: Wixom, Michigan
Years in Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Metallurgy
  • Failure Analysis & Mechanical Testing
  • Material Engineering
  • Superalloys

 

Send an email | Website | Phone: 248-960-4900

Briefly:

Dr. John M. Tartaglia, a Senior Metallurgical Engineer and the Engineering Manager at Element Wixom, has been performing failure analyses and materials characterization for more than 30 years. He holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York. Tartaglia’s doctoral thesis concerned the elevated temperature fatigue behavior of superalloys, and he is an expert in mechanical testing, wrought steels, aluminum, magnesium, fatigue, failure analysis, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and energy dispersive spectroscopy.

 Dr. Tartaglia is a Key Reader for Materials and Metallurgical Transactions, a member of the editorial committee for Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, chapter writer for an ASM Handbook, a member of several ASTM committees, a Fellow of ASM International and an award-winning author for the American Foundry Society. (see more: https://www.element.com/about-element/experts/t/john-tartaglia-phd#)

Publications or Significant Accomplishments

  1. Engineering Manager and Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Element Materials Technology, formerly known as Stork Climax Research Services, a division of Stork Materials Technology (Element: December 2011 to present; Stork Climax: 1994-2011)

  2. Holds patents for:
    • “Wrought Aluminum Eutectic Composites,” U.S. Patent No. 4992110, Issued February 12, 1991
    • “Production of Aluminum-SiC Composite Using Sodium Tetraborate as an Addition Agent,” U.S. Patent No. 4713111, Issued December 15, 1987
  3. Fellow of ASM International, 2009
  4. Member of American Foundry Society, author and co-author of multiple papers and studies, and awarded for Best Paper, Cast Iron Division, American Foundry Society (January 2011).
  5. Awarded the American Foundry Society 2013 Howard F. Taylor Award for his paper examining a strain-life fatigue database for cast irons, which he developed using funding from the AFS and the United States Department of Energy (DoE) (2013)
  6. Member, chairman, and secretary for several committees:
    • Member – TMS Committee
    • Member – MRS Committee
    • Member – ASTM Metallography, Mechanical Testing, & Fatigue Committee
    • Member – Editorial Committee, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
    • Chairman and Secretary – Detroit Section, Metallurgical Society of AIME
  7. Industrial Educator on subjects including, but not limited to:
    • Metallurgical Testing
    • Fatigue & Fracture Toughness
    • Electron Microscopy & Microanalysis
    • Selected Wrought Alloys
  8. Member of the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance Editorial Committee
  9. Co-authored and authored numerous articles, chapters, conference presentations, and white papers in publications such as The Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, ASM International, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, including:
    • “The Effects of Martensite Content on the Mechanical Properties of Quenched and Tempered 0.2%C-Ni-Cr-Mo Steels”
    • “Satisfactory Case Hardened Part Performance Requires Proper Hardness and Microstructural Specifications” with A. H. Griebel (conference paper presented at 25th ASM Heat Treating Society Conference, Indianapolis, IN, September 14-17, 2009)
    • “Monotonic and Cyclic Property Design Data for a 25% Cr Abrasion – Resistant Cast Iron,” with B. T. Hodge and R. B. Gundlach, (conference paper 10-128, AFS Cast Expo 2010, Atlanta, GA, March 22, 2010)
    • “Analysis of Pearlitic Ductile Iron with Enhanced Mechanical Properties,” with Rick Gundlach (presented at Keith Millis Symposium on Ductile Cast Iron, Nashville, TN, October 16, 2013)
    • “The Background, Use and Application of the Cast Iron Strain Life Fatigue Database” (presented at CAST EXPO and Metalcasting Congress, Minneapolis, MN, April 17, 2016)
    • “Effects of Inhibited Acid Cleaning of Steel Fracture Surfaces for Failure Analyses” with M. J Mullen and A. H. Griebel
    • “Fracture Structure Analyses” with M. J. Mullen and A. H. Griebel

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Meet the Consultants: Madhu Chatterjee

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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 Madhu Chatterjee of AAT Metallurgical Services LLC (who also provided the Technical Tuesday article this week, Comparative Study of Carburizing vs. Induction Hardening of Gears ), 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: Madhu Chatterjee
Company Name: AAT Metallurgical Services LLC
Location: Troy, Michigan
Years in Industry: 40+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Manufacturing and Engineering
  • Process and Product Improvement
  • Automotive Research and Development

Send an email | Website | 614-519-0740, 352-315-9090

Briefly:

Madhu Chatterjee is a consultant with specialties in the automotive industry and experience in advanced engineering, research and development, and process and product improvement. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering and a Master’s in Ferrous Metallurgy. Madhu holds 10 patents and has won 5 awards in his areas of expertise. In 1977, he began working at General Motors as a Senior Staff Engineer. In 2001, he became the Director of Special Projects at Inductoheat during which time he gained a Master’s in Materials Engineering from Purdue University, and in 2010, he moved on to be the Director of Technology at Bodycote Thermal Processing. He returned to GM in 2014 as an Advanced Lead Engineer, working a total of 29 years at GM. He founded AAT Metallurgical Services LLC in Michigan where he is currently president of the company.

Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering and Master’s in Ferrous Metallurgy and Material’s Engineering
  2. Holds 10 U.S. patents in the area of Induction Hardening System and Method, Manufacturing Technique for Multi-layered Structure with Magnet Using an Extrusion Process, and Ring Assembly Manufacturing Apparatus and Method
  3. Recognized and awarded in 5 areas of expertise
  4. Possesses over 40 years of experience in heat treating, including 29 years in the automotive industry
  5. Co-author of papers presented at ASM International Conferences
  6. Regular present at ASM International, ASM Heat Treating Society, and other industry-related conferences
  7. Scheduled Co-Presenter at ITPS/IFCS 2018 on “Cutting Edge Trends: A Consultants Panel Looks at the Future,” International ThermProcess Summit/International Finishing & Coatings Summit 2018, Atlanta, Georgia
  8. Founded and served as president AAT Metallurgical Services, LLC

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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: Debbie Aliya

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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 Debbie Aliya of Aliya Analytical 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: Debbie Aliya
Company Name: Aliya Analytical, Inc.
Location: Wyoming, Michigan
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Metallurgy
  • Failure & Root Cause Analysis
  • Materials and Process Engineering
  • Leadership & Business Development

Send an email | Website | Phone: 616-475-0059

Briefly:

Debbie brings 32 years of experience in development and use of applied critical and creating thinking skills in failure analysis, materials selection and characterization, and specification preparation for structural applications to the industry. She founded and serves as president of Aliya Analytical, Inc., which for almost 25 has served manufacturing clients in failure analysis and materials characterization, and education and training of manufacturing company employees. Debbie is a highly sought-after instructor, presenter, and author and editor of scholarly and non-scholarly works, including articles, journals, and industry handbooks and guides. In addition, she is a student and educator in interfaith and thinking skill optimization studies.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Founded, president of Aliya Analytical, Inc., in Grand Rapids (1994, incorporated 2004 to present)
  2. Adjunct Technology Faculty, Grand Rapids Community College (1990-1993); Montcalm Community College (1993-1996); Ferris State University (MI) (1994); Western Michigan University (2000); various math and physics courses, including basic metallurgy and materials science and formability of sheet metal
  3. Chair or Co-chair of various committees or proceedings, including, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Materials Solutions Conference/American Society for Metals (ASM International), Failure Analysis Committee/American Society for Metals (ASM International), Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology, Society of Automotive Engineers (West Michigan)
  4. Expert witness at depositions in local, state and federal trial proceedings
  5. Contributor to multiple industry journals, including Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention (and predecessor, Journal of Practical Failure Analysis), Lubrication and Fluid Power: Journal of Machinery, Industrial Heating, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance,
  6. A frequent lecturer, present at international, national, and regional conferences, including Society for Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Conference, ASMI/ASNT chapters, Materials Science & Tech Conference/American Society for Metals (ASM International), Minnesota Microscopy Society, ASMI Student Chapter at the Government Engineering College (Pune, India), Michigan Microscopy Society Conference,  American Society for Nondestructive Testing
  7. Instructor, MEI faculty, ASM International, Failure Analysis and Prevention and Heat Treating of Steel (part-time)
  8. Founding Member, Root Cause Forum (Yahoo Group)
  9. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, and its predecessor, Journal of Practical Failure Analysis, American Society for Metals (ASM International) (2001-2006)
  10. Co-Editor, Section 4, Metals Handbook Volume 11, American Society for Metals (ASM International), Authored: “The Failure Analysis Process: An Overview,” “Metals Chemical Analysis in Failure Analysis,” “Hydrogen Embrittlement of High Strength Steels” (from “Hydrogen Damage”); Co-compiler/Author of Volume Glossary (2002 edition)
  11. Author, “Sectioning of Metallurgical Specimens,” Co-author, “Physical Metallurgy in Metallography,” Metals Handbook Volume 9 (2004 edition), American Society for Metals (ASM International) (2004)
  12. Author, “Mechanisms and Causes of Failure in Heat Treated Steel Components,” chapter in Failure Analysis of Heat Treated Steel Components, Canale, Mesquite & Totten, published by ASM International (2008)
  13. Contributing columnist to “The Experts Speak”, Industrial Heating (2009-present)
  14. Experis contract with Cummins, Inc., in Columbus, Indiana, failure analysis consultant  (2011-2012)

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References (partial list; more available upon request)

LinkedIn.com | Aliya Analytical

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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

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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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