Manufacturing Expert Witnesses

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What is a manufacturing expert witness?

Manufacturing expert witness candidates are typically licensed professional engineers with extensive experience and areas of expertise in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, automotive engineering, consumer product design, electronics manufacturing, electrical engineering, biomechanics, and/or the manufacturing process. Manufacturing experts must also have a solid understanding of the global supply chain, procurement, and sourcing procedures. The chosen expert may be designated as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE), and may be associated with an industry organization such as SME or CIRP.

What types of cases require a manufacturing expert witness?

Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience, and has completed numerous searches for an expert witness in the manufacturing arena, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the attorney in charge. Exemplary matters that have required a manufacturing engineer include:

• industrial accidents and explosion investigations,
• HVAC patent valuations,
• metallurgical engineering design,
• aerospace manufacturing project management duties,
• industrial machinery issues, and
• mechanical engineering to support insurance companies.

Manufacturing expert witness case examples

Manufacturing matters encompass a vast range of disciplines, and Cahn Litigation Services has placed experts in projects involving everything from aerospace to metallurgy; from tooling to OSHA regulations.

• industrial accident reconstruction in Florida
• Ohio explosion investigation
• industrial machinery corrosion in New York

What litigation support work might a manufacturing expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support could include expert witness services such as an expert report, failure analysis, accident investigation, forensic engineering, and expert witness testimony in the courtroom. An engineer with specific knowledge in manufacturing might provide expert opinion in a matter such as a product liability case, breach of contract, or provide testimony in a personal injury case.

A manufacturing expert could also provide expertise in intellectual property matters including patent infringement or a trade secret dispute. It could be an Inter Partes Review (IPR) in the PTAB (where the only expert testimony is through a deposition), or a patent case or proceeding in the International Trade Commission (ITC). In addition, a law firm may request an engineer for pre-litigation consulting services.

The firm has many years’ experience providing candidates with the right balance of expertise and testimony for the job at hand. To support either a plaintiff or defendant, Cahn Litigation Services is frequently called upon by law firms to locate an expert witness that can support issues involving manufacturing.

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Manufacturing Expert Witness - Representative Bios

Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Manufacturing experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Manufacturing landscape.

• Expert Witness #226432

  This expert holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE). Specializing in design engineering, development, and manufacturing, this expert brings to the table many years of industrial experience. This expert's prior litigation experience includes arbitrations, depositions, hearings (Daubert, Markman, and evidentiary), and trials (bench and jury).

  This expert has designed and developed -- or assisted in litigation of -- products specifically for ophthalmic, uterine, prostate, and dental surgery. Related products include instruments and devices for laparoscopy, colonoscopy, vacuum therapy for the skin, razors, cardiac stents, cardiac pacemakers, and auto-injectors ("epi-pens"). This expert has designed or supervised the design of hundreds of products and prepared or reviewed thousands of design and manufacturing drawings. This expert has carried out product-development projects and managed a machine shop and a complete manufacturing department. Further, this expert has taught college courses in industrial design.

  This expert has served as expert witness in more than 100 litigation cases, mostly patent-related. This expert has testified at deposition more than 30 times and at hearing or trial, including jury trial, more than 15 times. This expert has also supported several IPRs.

  
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• Expert Witness #236118

  This expert is well-published, having authored five books on supply chain as well as an Amazon Best-Seller. This expert has significant expert witness experience in global manufacturing, import/export trade compliance, Chinese products, supply chain and outsourcing and has written numerous expert reports and testified in arbitrations and trials. This expert has been a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has taught at colleges and universities.

  
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• Expert Witness #246983

  This expert earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from a prestigious university and has devoted much of a career to reducing variation in manufacturing quality and optimizing production. This expert is well-published, having authored or co-authored over forty publications in manufacturing technology, and is author to six publications related to the Chemical Vapor Deposition of polysilicon. This expert is also author of 77 patents, including two specifically related to polysilicon. As Director of Automation Applications, this expert helped a major semiconductor company develop and implement advanced control algorithms in manufacturing, including the design, build and application of control systems. Now a consultant, this expert has been engaged on matters related to IP portfolio assessment and has provided expert witness support, though has not yet been deposed or provided testimony.

  
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• Expert Witness #248180

  This expert holds a PhD in Precision & Microsystems Engineering, Mechatronic System Design and serves as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Optics. Specializing in machine design, instrumentation and metrology, particularly surrounding opto-mechanical machines/instruments and machines for manufacturing, this expert is published widely on surround custom instruments & systems that have been built and qualified for research purposes. Additionally, this expert teaches elements of machine design for manufacturing. In addition to academic experience, this expert has worked in the industry for an optics manufacturing equipment company. This expert has served as an expert in litigation.

  
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• Expert Witness #258779

  This expert is the Chief Technical Officer of a highly successful materials engineering and manufacturing firm specializing in flexible body armor technologies as well as other related items. This expert began a design/manufacturing career with plastic products. This expert’s firm performs design engineering to develop products, create turn-key production lines, or manufacture, including an advanced materials systems for weapon components including polymer and ceramic. This expert’s research extends from armor and munitions to Composite Reinforced Ceramic Technology (CRCT) machinegun barrels.  Materials utilized include advanced engineering ceramics, self-reinforced thermoplastics, thermoset resins, and advanced composite structures.

  This expert created a start-up plastics manufacturing company that evolved into a leading regional injection molding, engineering and mold-making company. Manufacturing technologies included: design engineering, toolmaking, injection molding, thermoset molding, thermoset composite forming, thermoplastic composite fabrication, assembly and packaging. This expert invented and led the development of novel patent-pending mold-making technologies, and added a "paperless" engineering and toolmaking protocol that integrated 3DCAD/CAE/CAM with Quality Assurance and Marketing. This helped the company to earn a high vendor rating and excellent "LEAN" percentage from U.S. government prime contractors. This start-up  served a major OEM manufacturer of grips, stocks and other components for US and European firearms manufacturers.

  This expert’s expertise goes well beyond design engineering and manufacturing:

  • an active designer, licensed firearms dealer, owner/operator of a retail gun store, licensed firearms manufacturer, registered armaments exporter and writer
  • an inventor of 11 issued patents including several having to do with plastic components for armaments.
    • researched, written and filed patents and participated in the patent examination process.
    • is familiar with the MPEP, and has visited the USPTO to personally interact with examiners.
    • has utility patents, and filed a design patent application for ergonomic firearm grips
    • was retained during an examination to prepare an Expert Declaration regarding description of technology and lexicon used for a “Section 102” rejection.
    • was firearms training officer for a Highway Patrol department which included instructing handgun, shotgun and rifle. This expert performed armorer duties for police, sheriff, and state agencies, as well as federal agencies located. This included building specialized weapons, such as sniper rifles, for law enforcement use.
    • crime scene reconstruction and analysis of shooting incidents. This expert provides expert witness consulting and testimony for major felony cases.

  In addition to prior work as an expert in criminal matters, this expert has served as a subject matter expert for patent, Trade Dress, and Trademark matters. This expert has prepared expert declarations on Post-Grant Review, and worked with attorneys on Ex Parte Reexamination and Inter Partes Review.

  
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• Expert Witness #261242

  This expert is the principal design engineer in an eponymous consulting firm dealing with design, usually from an intellectual property standpoint. This expert has designed many household appliances and their accessories. This expert has extensive experience working with Chinese manufacturers to ensure the correct production of new or redesigned products. This includes traveling to China to meet with executive general managers and production engineers of over 30 Chinese manufacturing plants. This expert has analyzed manufacturing capabilities and ways to align their capabilities with the designs, or vice-versa. This expert has experience reviewing the first test production pieces, providing feedback of changes to the tools before full production begins.

  
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• Expert Witness #261650

  This expert has a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, and another in Engineering Management. This expert currently leads a medical device design and consulting firm and provides services to corporations and law firms as a manufacturing consultant and expert witness. Before founding this company, this expert supervised Manufacturing and Research and Development for a medical device manufacturer and had responsibility for Product Development at another. This expert is well acquainted with manufacturing and deviation tolerances, and other characteristics of machining and the manufacturing process. This expert boasts over 60 medical device (US) patents. This expert is well-published and serves as an adjunct professor at a University. As an expert witness this expert has provided services in patent infringement litigations, IPR post-grant proceedings and an array of products and injury matters involving medical devices. This expert has specific experience in validity, infringement claim construction and Markman hearings.

  
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• Expert Witness #267522

  This expert has many years of microbiology experience including practical proficiencies in pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device research and development, manufacturing quality and business development.  This expert also brings to the table practical experience as a microbiology expert witness in patent litigation and product liability cases. This expert has successfully served as a microbiology expert witness on numerous cases, representing branded and generic drug companies, corporations and individuals, plaintiffs and defendants. This expert has supported clients during fact finding/expert discovery and claim construction in addition to providing consultation, patent review, expert opinion, deposition and trial testimony. This expert has also provided technical guidance to counsel in preparation of taking depositions.

  This expert has significant education, training, skill sets and experience, and has provided legal support as a consultant and expert witness in many areas, including:

  • Pharmaceutical microbiology
  • Sterility assurance
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
  • FDA regulatory compliance
  • Contamination control
  • Sterilization
  • Preservative and antimicrobial effectiveness
  • Compounding pharmacy microbiology
  • United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) testing
  • Laboratory operations
  • Ophthalmic formulations and contact lens care

  This expert’s capabilities span a wide range of applications and functions, including, but not limited to:

  • Manufacturing
    • Sterility assurance and aseptic processing
    • cGMP compliance
    • Investigations of microbial excursions, presence of objectionable organisms and out-of specification findings
    • Contamination control and bioburden reduction strategies for sterile and non-sterile fill-finish facilities
    • Manufacturing isolator and RABS design, cycle development and microbiological validation
    • Process development
    • Manufacturing facility design and qualification
    • Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
    • Environmental monitoring (sterile and nonsterile)
    • Fermentation, recovery and purification microbiological control (API, bulk drug)
    • Process water monitoring and maintenance
    • Disinfection and sterilization
    • Cleaning validation
    • Audit readiness
    • Rapid microbiological method (RMM) validation and implementation
  • Microbiology Laboratory
    • Laboratory audits, optimization and management
    • Laboratory design, qualification, optimization and automation
    • Sterility test isolator design, cycle development and microbiological validation
    • cGMP compliance
    • Microbiology method suitability testing, including the harmonized Sterility Test and Microbial Limits Test, Antimicrobial Effectiveness testing, USP 1223 and1227
    • Sterility testing (harmonized)
    • Antimicrobial and preservative effectiveness testing
    • Environmental monitoring
    • Pharmaceutical-grade water analysis
    • Bioburden and microbiological examination of nonsterile products (harmonized Microbial Limits Test)
    • Disinfectant effectiveness validation
    • Microbial identification strategies and instrument/method validation, including gene sequencing and MALDI
    • Endotoxin analysis and method validation
    • SOP and protocol development
    • Method validation and technology transfer
    • Pharmacopoeia (e.g., USP, Ph. Eur., JP) interpretation and compliance
    • Risk assessments (e.g., objectionable organisms, microbial data deviation, bioburden excursions)
    • Documentation and data management
    • Rapid microbiological method (RMM) validation and implementation
  • Quality, Regulatory and Product Development
  • Failure investigations and root cause analysis
  • Microbial data deviation investigations
  • Audit response (e.g., FDA 483, warning letters, consent decree)
  • Regulatory submission support associated with microbiological processes (e.g., NDA, ANDA, IND, BLA, marketing authorization)
  • Pharmacopoeia (e.g., USP, Ph. Eur., JP) compliance
  • Contact lens care and ophthalmic formulation development, manufacturing, stability testing and product release
  • USP 797 compliance, pharmaceutical compounding of sterile preparations (compounding pharmacies)
  
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• Expert Witness #256758

  This expert holds a PhD in Electrophysics. This expert began research in CMP and has served as PhD thesis advisor or co-advisor for PhD graduates in various areas on CMP, all working on full-wafer CMP tools using a conventional polishing table. This expert has co-authored two books, over 40 refereed journal articles and presented over 20 invited or contributed papers at international conferences on different aspects of the CMP process for a variety of applications. When there was increasing acceptance of CMP as a vital process in IC interconnect technology, this expert's programs were in the forefront of university research.

  This expert worked with companies interested in becoming a CMP consumable supplier, mostly polishing pads and slurries. Working with such companies expanded this expert's knowledge base in these important consumables and enriched ongoing research programs. This expert's experience with industrial researchers on industrial-sponsored programs allowed this expert to better describe IC company needs during the decade of CMP expanding importance in IC manufacturing.

  This expert has been a consultant and testifying expert in a variety of patents cases, mostly in the CMP area but also in other areas. One case involved using an aperture in a polishing pad to sense end-point detection during the CMP process. This expert has had appreciable experience in analyzing validity and infringement issues, being deposed and testifying at trial.

  
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• Expert Witness #265197

  This expert has conducted research into novel robot designs and developed robotic work cells for many industries. This expert is a Fellow of ASME and holds 12 patents. This expert has published over 100 papers and is the author of a textbook on Automation. This expert has conducted research in the areas of modular automation, robotics, and manufacturing, created a multi-head robotic material handling system, and has taught courses in the areas of automation, mechanisms, and manufacturing systems. This expert has:
  
  • developed and studied many automation and robotic machines
  • developed and prototyped automation designs and processes for dozens of industrial companies
  • developed and patented a robot that uses human physical teaching
  This expert is the named inventor on multiple patents dealing with novel automation and robotics designs, and has owned and extensively utilized a UR5 Cobot for prototyping and development. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience having worked on patent cases for a wide range of automation and robotics applications for IPR, validity and infringement cases.

  
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• Expert Witness #266094

  This expert is currently a professor in a department of mechanical engineering. This expert has taught and designed lifting mechanical mechanisms for many years. This expert has been involved in many in patent infringement, patent invalidity and product liability matters, and is a Licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Manufacturing Engineer. This expert is a named inventor on 20 patents, and is well-published. This expert has over 100 presentations at major conferences and over 30 invited presentations at conferences and universities. This expert received a postdoctoral degree in Applied Mechanics, as well as a PhD in Mechanics, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering.

  
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• Expert Witness #266579

  This expert brings to the table many years of manufacturing, design and automation industry experience involving over 100 devices that contain linkages, springs (pneumatic and otherwise), and pivot joints. This expert has designed many mechanisms that center on electro-mechanical lifting, and is the named inventor on two patents involving that technology. In addition to work as an independent consultant, this expert serves as Vice President of Research and Development/Engineering for a worldwide leader in the manufacturing of chemicals and test kits for monitoring water quality.
  
  This expert is a qualified expert witness with experience in Federal Circuit Court for intellectual property matters, ITC, PTAB, contract and personal injury cases. This expert is well versed in creating claim charts. This expert has testified twice in court on patent matters and been deposed eight times on patent-related matters. This expert holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Engineering Management.

  
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• Expert Witness #266751

  This expert’s life-long experience is in semiconductor manufacturing related technologies in both development and fab (OR2), specifically on 0.12, 0.16, 0.18 and 0.25 micron technology process development, and on 65nm, 90nm and 120nm technology manufacturing for IC processing specifically in SiTD , Kfab and DMOS 6. Most recently working with a federal research grant at a small scale cleanroom. This expert is the recipient of numerous awards and holds 16 patents in semiconductor manufacturing devices and processes. This expert is well-published and is a frequent presenter at industry and academic conferences and symposia.

  
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• Expert Witness #238568

  This mechanical engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with a Bachelor's degree and two Master's degrees in engineering fields and has over 45 years of experience in industrial and construction fields, including robotic machinery, PLCs, design, and manufacturing of various industrial parts.

  This expert has supplied .dxf files to plate cutting services for parts manufacturing, designed projects in private practice, performed CNC machine setup programming, and programmed PLCs while working in manufacturing and fabrication environments.

  
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• Expert Witness #258302

  This FDA industry expert holds a Ph.D. and is an executive regulatory and quality consultant for drugs, biologics, and vaccines, with over 10 years of experience as a principal investigator and group leader. This expert's skills encompass chemistry, manufacturing, and control (CMC), labeling, and compliance review of Investigational New Drug applications (INDs), new and abbreviated new drug applications (NDAs and ANDAs), and biological license applications (BLAs) for drugs, including small and complex molecules, therapeutic proteins, enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines approved by the FDA or under clinical development.

  This expert has experience with U.S. FDA principal investigator, quality (CMC), and labeling review of biologics, biotherapeutics, drugs, and combination products, as well as regulatory strategy and development of briefing packages for Pre-IND, IND, 510(k), PMA, ANDA, BLA, and other technical and regulatory documents for submission to the FDA.

  This expert has experience with pre-approval inspections (PAIs), cGMP compliance, and audits of manufacturing sites for biologics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices in compliance with 21 CFR Part 210 and 211, 21 CFR Part 820, 21 CFR Part 58, and 21 CFR Part 11. This work includes FDA 483 remediation, responses to FDA Warning Letters, consent decrees, and import bans.

  This expert has conducted scientific and technical due diligence audits and analyses for investment firms, and has experience with quality system development, assessment, and implementation, as well as product quality assessment using concepts of ICH Q8 through ICH Q11 and FDA manuals.

  This expert has extensive knowledge of biophysical, biochemical, molecular biology, and immunological techniques related to biologics and vaccines manufacturing, purification, and characterization. This expert also has in-depth knowledge of cGMP, ICH, EMA, and FDA regulatory guidelines, CMC regulatory guidelines, FDA law, relevant statutes of the FD&C Act and PHS Act, and global biologics manufacturing and development processes.

  This expert's experience includes technology transfer, review and design of clinical trials, GCP and GLP audits, and development of strategies for FDA approval of multiproduct cGMP manufacturing facilities. This expert has also testified in arbitration involving cord blood stem cell manufacturing, including opinions on the applicability of cGTP versus cGMP regulations for human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products.

  This expert has over two decades of experience in aseptic manufacturing, sterility assurance, and regulatory compliance for biologics and sterile drug products. As a former FDA Principal Investigator and CMC reviewer, this expert led inspections and compliance reviews focused on aseptic processing, environmental monitoring, cleanroom qualification, and contamination control. In post-FDA work, this expert has advised biopharmaceutical companies on cGMP remediation, process validation, and quality risk management for sterile manufacturing facilities, and has audited cGTP laboratories producing HCT/Ps.

  
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• Expert Witness #262305

  This footwear expert has over three decades of broad footwear industry experience in design, product development, manufacturing, and logistics.

  This expert has worked globally across the United States and international manufacturing markets in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, collaborating with brands, agents, and factories on all aspects of taking concepts from initial briefs through production, manufacturing, and logistics. This expert has provided expert services in the footwear industry, including drafting expert reports, providing trial and deposition testimony, and working with attorneys on design patent, utility patent, trademark, and trade dress litigation. This expert is also an adjunct professor of footwear design at a well-regarded arts institution.

  
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• Expert Witness #267728

  This can manufacturing expert has worked on multiple projects and cases involving can defects and their causes. Consulting work has included identifying can defects in filling lines and supplier can manufacturing lines, as well as creating a can defect catalog.

  This expert has set up double seams and understands the defects associated with double seaming. This expert is also very familiar with can manufacturing defects and coating defects that create problems later, and understands the can decoration process.

  Earlier career experience at a major aluminum company included learning beverage can and end manufacturing, developing new cans and ends that were patented and commercialized, working closely with can manufacturers on introducing new products and problem solving, and developing can-related performance tests.

  Later work at a major beverage company involved metal packaging from a brand owner's perspective, including new industry coating implementations, new performance metrics, and close work with can suppliers on numerous projects.

  This expert is familiar with the entire beverage can supply chain, including metals such as aluminum and steel, coatings, manufacturing and manufacturing equipment, testing equipment, specifications, filling, double seaming, and recycling.

  
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• Expert Witness #269611

  This cell and gene therapy expert is an MD with over 30 years of experience developing gene therapy and cell therapy products. For over 20 years, this expert has been a full-time consultant on manufacturing, regulatory matters, and strategy, serving over 200 companies, from biotech startups to large pharmaceutical companies, working on products from preclinical development through Phase I, Phase II, Phase III, and commercialization.

  This expert has extensive expertise in developing and manufacturing cell therapy products, including aseptic manufacturing requirements and best practices for products such as cord blood. Aseptic processing is a fundamental requirement for manufacturing all cell therapy products, and this expert is deeply familiar with it. This expert served for over 5 years as director of a GMP cell therapy manufacturing facility with a cord blood bank.

  This expert has consulted on manufacturing and regulatory aspects of cell and gene therapy for over 20 years, serving companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. This expert has published extensively on cell therapy manufacturing and regulatory topics, is often asked to speak at international cell therapy conferences, has been an invited speaker at FDA in-house workshops, and has served on a cell and gene therapy expert committee of a prominent standards-setting organization.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #277370

  This automotive radiator expert is experienced in engineering analysis and forensic engineering analysis, with responsibility for engineering design and development, vehicle component analysis and vehicle testing, robotic manufacturing, material handling and processing equipment, and manufacturing process analysis. As a board-certified Forensic Engineer, this expert's professional emphasis and credentials include safety, products liability, industry standards research, accident investigation, defect analysis of products, manufacturing processes, and manufacturing equipment.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness with direct involvement in matters including commercial litigation involving automotive NHTSA national recall causation analysis, investigation of automotive fuel system malfunction resulting in NHTSA national recall and class action lawsuits, and automobile and truck accident causation analysis. This expert has performed over 275 engineering analysis projects related to litigation, is a qualified expert witness in Machine Design and Mechanical Engineering, and has testified in both Federal courts and courts of general jurisdiction.

  
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• Expert Witness #285382

  This glass fracture analysis expert performs scientific investigations and root cause analyses of failed components, structures, and systems, including assessing contributions to failure from design, manufacturing methods and materials processes, use conditions, maintenance, and application. This expert holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from a well-regarded university and is a licensed P.E. with professional memberships in prominent glass-products and ceramic-science organizations.

  This expert has over 15 years of experience as a litigation consultant and has participated in deposition and testimony processes, including matters involving products associated with potential class or recall issues based on design and manufacturing concerns. Graduate studies focused on laminated glass panels using tempered, heat-strengthened, and annealed glass to study differing properties. This expert has served on a prominent standards committee on glass products, including glass used in windows and containers.

  This expert's forensic work has involved manufacturers and parties adverse to manufacturers of glass products and has spanned the life cycle of glass products, from manufacturing-site issues to issues arising during use. This expert has worked on matters involving spontaneous fracturing of glass products and other causes of fracture, including potential manufacturing or design issues for glass applications and use or maintenance issues after manufacturing.

  This expert is familiar with automotive glass, including the application of frit to automotive glass and potential interactions between frit and glass. This expert can perform inspections and fractography, help determine fracture origins, and assess causation relative to fracture origin.

  
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• Expert Witness #291180

  This manufacturing equipment expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience with equipment and systems in mechanical engineering and manufacturing, and is LEED AP Building Design and Construction credentialed. This expert received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from a well-regarded technical institute and a Master's Degree in Project Management from a graduate school of management.

  This expert has extensive hands-on experience in equipment and system design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, and troubleshooting. This expert has worked with processes, equipment, and systems in residential, commercial, and industrial construction and aerospace industries. As a mechanical engineer, this expert has performed design, analysis, assessment, and troubleshooting tasks involving commercial and industrial equipment and building systems. This expert has been involved with system programming, debugging, start-up, and runoff processes and has experience with robotics, vision systems, position sensing, and data tracking systems. Manufacturing experience includes metal fabrication, machining, finishing, and assembly processes.

  
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• Expert Witness #293521

  This FAA and aircraft manufacturing expert has over 45 years of experience in aviation. This expert is a former FAA Safety Inspector and has worked for an aircraft manufacturer, where the role involved responsibility for manufacturing processes and overall airworthiness certification of newly manufactured aircraft and major modification projects.

  This expert has testified in high-profile cases involving aircraft manufacturers' failure to comply with FAA-approved procedures, FAA regulatory non-compliance, failure to amend manufacturing procedures after a design failure became known, and failure to implement higher safety standards with superior products when known and available.

  
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• Expert Witness #293568

  This FAA and aircraft manufacturing expert holds a degree in Aviation Maintenance Management from a well-regarded aeronautical university and has experience with FAA regulations and manufacturing procedures for large airplanes. This expert pursued a practical career with major aircraft manufacturers and is a former federal transportation safety investigator and FAA Inspector with over 15 years of combined service.

  This expert has a specialized background in production management, accident investigations, airline, airport, and aircraft regulations, operations, maintenance, repair, manufacturing, and safety management systems. This expert has expert witness experience.

  
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• Expert Witness #300937

  This industrial and manufacturing engineering expert holds a Ph.D. and has over three decades of combined academic and consulting experience in industrial and manufacturing systems. As the principal of an engineering consulting firm, this expert has provided over 35 years of engineering consulting services to manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution facilities. Consulting engagements have included reviewing and redesigning production lines across multiple countries to improve efficiency and throughput.

  In addition to consulting experience, this expert has over 35 years of academic experience and previously served as a department chair in industrial and manufacturing engineering. This expert's teaching portfolio includes Production Planning, Operations Planning, and Facility Layout, subjects that reflect a deep understanding of manufacturing systems and process optimization. This expert collaborates with associates who are also specialists in Quality Control for production facilities, allowing the team to address a wide range of needs related to process design and improvement.

  This expert's professional background spans multiple industries, including paper, automotive, glass, food and drug, lighting, lockset manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution. Extensive experience as a process designer enables this expert to analyze, evaluate, and optimize production systems in industrial settings.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #300942

  This industrial and mechanical engineering expert holds a Ph.D., is a licensed P.E., and has extensive expertise in the creation and implementation of manufacturing lines to prescribed specifications. This expert also holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from a well-regarded university and serves as a professor of practice in industrial engineering at a public university, teaching courses related to manufacturing systems, including productivity improvement, work methods, and project management.

  This expert has consulted on fiberglass and steel door manufacturing lines, analyzing and enhancing manufacturing systems by designing improved conveyor and rack systems, ergonomic solutions, and standardized work procedures to optimize throughput and safety. With a doctorate in mechanical engineering, a professional engineering license, and over two decades of applied industrial and academic experience, this expert has provided expert analysis, design validation, and testimony in multiple technical litigation matters.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #304416

  This food manufacturing expert is a food microbiologist with a BS, MS, and PhD in Food Science and owns a consultancy that assists with FSMA and HACCP compliance. This expert has expertise in GMP and hazard analysis and writes food safety and allergen plans with SOPs.

  This expert has extensive experience as a Lead Instructor for the food industry, including training members of the food industry in controlling hazards in the supply chain and managing allergens in facilities. Allergens are managed with Good Manufacturing Practices and preventive controls. As a consultant, this expert works side-by-side with manufacturing facility personnel to solve problems involving the control of pathogens and allergens, observes operations, and provides recommendations for improvement.

  
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• Expert Witness #306244

  This food manufacturing expert is a manager specializing in trade group relations and co-packer services at a university-affiliated food and agricultural products center, with over 20 years of experience working with food and beverage manufacturers, emerging brands, co-packers, and commercialization programs involving product development, manufacturing scale-up, retail readiness, food safety systems, and contract manufacturing relationships. This expert's work regularly involves advising companies on operational expectations between brand owners and co-manufacturers, commercialization strategy, production planning, confidentiality considerations, and industry-standard manufacturing practices across both shelf-stable and refrigerated food and beverage categories.

  This expert has not yet served in a formal Expert Witness capacity, but has more than two decades of industry experience working directly with food and beverage manufacturers, co-packers, and food business operations.

  
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