Industrial Engineering Expert Witnesses
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What is an industrial engineering expert witness?
Depending on the specific product or process involved in a case, an industrial engineering expert witness is typically a licensed professional engineer with extensive experience and expertise in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, structural engineering, biomechanics, human factors, industrial design, and/or earned an advanced degree in industrial engineering. An engineering expert witness must also possess the ability to explain technology and evidence to lay people, such as typical jurors.
What types of cases require an industrial engineering expert witness?
Often, matters requiring industrial engineering expert witness services involve intellectual property, such as a patent infringement case, copyright, trade secrets dispute, or a patent proceeding before the International Trade Commission (ITC). A forensic engineer can reverse engineer components to prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. An industrial engineering expert witness can also be instrumental in a product liability case, such as those involving industrial machinery.
A professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln published a paper that eloquently describes industrial engineering:
“Industrial Engineers integrate combinations of people, information, materials, and equipment that produce innovative and efficient organizations. In addition to manufacturing, Industrial Engineers work and consult in every industry, including hospitals, communications, e-commerce, entertainment, government, finance, food, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, sports, insurance, sales, accounting, banking, travel, and transportation.”
What litigation support work might an industrial engineering expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by an industrial engineering expert witness could include forensic engineering, failure analyses, accident reconstruction, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and testimony at deposition and at trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the attorney team may request a subject matter expert with prior expert witness experience. In addition, clients may seek an industrial engineer or mechanical engineer for pre-litigation consultant work.
Whether the case involves product failure, design defect, or intellectual property, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an industrial engineering expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Industrial Engineering Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Industrial Engineering experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Industrial Engineering 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.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #249011
This expert is a Senior Consultant for a highly successful engineering systems consultancy. This expert's sweet-spot is in Human Factors and Engineering Psychology, experimental design, risk assessment, and the analysis of human error within complex and hazardous operational environments. This expertise includes human visual-perceptual processes, industrial applications including conspicuity, warnings, procedures and instructions, usability, driver distraction, night time vision, and crash avoidance.
Areas of Specialization include:
- Human Error Analyses- Risk Assessment- Advanced Statistical and Experimental Design Analyses- Human Factors Analyses- Industrial and Process Safety Accident Investigation- Night and Daytime visibility and conspicuity-human perception- Automotive Accidents-driver behaviorThis expert has extensive prior litigation experience and testifies an average of 4-5 times each year.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #254474
This expert is an electrical engineering expert with many years of hands-on experience in industrial controls, automation, machinery, equipment, industrial safety and machine safeguarding. This expert applies expertise to forensic casework involving industrial controls, machine safeguarding, workplace safety, industrial/commercial/residential electric power systems, electrical related fires, electric shocks, and electrocutions. This expert is proficient in the National Electrical Code, National Electrical Safety Code, Electrical Safety in the Workplace, OSHA Standards for General Industry, and OSHA Electrical Safety Standards.
For many years this expert was a controls engineer for a control system integrator, where this expert was involved in control panel design, industrial automation, machine control, electrical design, software programming, installation, electrical contractor supervision, machine safeguarding, commissioning, project management, electrical power distribution and workplace safety. This expert was a corporate engineer performing electrical engineering in 4 different manufacturing facilities, including industrial controls, automation, process control, process engineering, quality control, robotics, industrial safety, machine safeguarding manufacturing supervision, and product development.
This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer in more than 20 states and a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Association of Safety Engineers (ASSE) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial and personal injury litigation involving design, construction, operation, maintenance and training of electrical systems, equipment and devices.
This expert’s areas of expertise include:
Automation, controls, automated manufacturing, automated assembly lines, conveyors, robotics, material handling, packaging, robotic cells, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), test cells, gantries, cranes, elevators, conveyors, lifts, turn tables, pumps, fans, scales, instrumentation, motion control, process control, boiler control, steam control, speed control, industrial controls, HVAC systems, air conditioners, air handling, boilers, compressed air, exhaust, centrifugal and absorption chillers, heaters, ovens, presses, grinders, cutting, broaching, stamping presses, hydraulics, pneumatics, vision, inspection, weighing, RFID, barcode, RF Radios, recipe/batch management, gas analyzers, motor controls, motion control, electrical control panels, control panel design/build (UL certified), PLC, HMI, MES, SCADA and software development, industrial communications (wired and wireless), information systems, data collection, data reporting, alarming, and industrial safety.
This expert’s expertise also extends to:
Industrial control software, programmable logic controllers (PLC), human machine interface (HMI), graphical user interface (GUI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Other software Visual Basic, C++, Microsoft SQL. PLC Software, Allen Bradley/Rockwell RSLogix/5/500/5000/IPDS, Siemens S5/S7/TIA Portal, Mitsubishi MEDOC/GX Developer/GX Works, Omron, Telemechanique, Modicon,B+R, Opto22, Steeplechase VLC, PC Worx, Wago, Automation Direct, Koyo HMI / GUI / SCADA Software, Rockwell RSView, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Allen Bradley Panelbuilder, Siemens WinCC, Mitsubishi GOT, Mitsubishi GX Worx, Wonderware, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, Proficy iFix, Indusoft, Automation Direct C-more, Industrial Communication Networks, Ethernet, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet I/P, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Interbus, and ASi-Bus.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #256699
This expert has a Masters in Design and a PhD in engineering with course work that spanned product design, safety, industrial systems design, robotics, kinematics and mechanical engineering. This expert's expert witness experience includes intellectual property (patents, trade secrets and trade dress), product design, product liability and mechanical failure analysis, manufacturing system failure, safety analysis, and automotive and motorcycle system failures. This expert is a recognized artist, award winning producer, interior designer, author of a robotics text, journal and conference papers that include automation systems, alternative fuels and automotive engine design, a racing car engine researcher and designer, and the holder of six US patents that include alternative automotive fuels and furniture design. This expert is an Associate Professor in departments of industrial engineering and management systems and in a school of visual arts and design.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #258116
This expert brings to the table many years of experience as the principle investigator of a highly successful forensic consultancy specializing in the fields of Human Factors, Safety Engineering, Industrial Engineering. This expert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Mechanical), a Master's Degree in Safety, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. This expert also serves as adjunct associate professor in a Systems and Industrial Engineering Department in a College of Engineering.
Throughout the years, this expert has been retained to investigate systems for probable potential incident causes due to oversights or mistakes due to design, manufacture, construction and/or maintenance of a product or premise. Using forensic methods coupled with the principles and practices for human factors/ergonomics, systems engineering, industrial engineering, and safety engineering to analyze incidents, these investigations are intended to result in recommendations for modifications of the existing system to reduce the probability of future occurrences. This expert's investigations generally include looking at human performance characteristics and the interaction with the other system components: other humans, the technology, the environment, and the interfaces that are intended to facilitate the interactions. The various human performance characteristics can include 1) the physical (anthropometry, kinematics, strength, joint range of motion), 2) physiological (the sensory systems, performance capacity), 3) psychological (decision making, risk identification, assessment, and aversion, perception, expectations, information processing, communications), and 4) biomechanics (injury causation, forces applied to the body, forces applied by the body).
This expert has served as an expert witness in hundreds of litigated matters. This expert's unique educational and experiential background, combined with meticulous attention to detail provide clients with exceptionally high-quality reports, qualified expert testimony, and effective technical case management.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #250772
This expert is Director of the Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program at a research university. This expert is an expert in automotive drivetrain technology and extensively studies, publishes and teaches on oscillation, vibration and flexure of drivetrains. This expert's primary focus is on electrical and mechanical systems including imbalance issues, and the attendant noise and vibrations that occur, specifically the dynamics and analysis of mechanical vibrations on rotating and linear devices. This expert is a member of the society of Automotive engineers (SAE) and is a registered Professional Engineer. This expert has experience as an expert witness, having testified approximately a dozen times in court, and providing upwards of twenty depositions, primarily in patent matters.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #209524
This product design IP expert has over 50 years of design practice and extensive experience in product development, industrial design, and engineering consulting. This expert has held senior leadership roles in an industrial design, product development, and engineering consulting firm, has taught design at well-regarded universities, and has served as a Consultant in Intellectual Property Design since 2012. This expert is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is a named inventor on over 70 patents.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #238525
This mechanical engineering expert is a PE who provides forensic engineering investigation and analysis services in legal and insurance contexts involving claims and causes of action resulting in personal injury or death.
This expert has experience with CNC machining centers and G-Code programming, as well as CNC plasma and laser sheet metal cutters. This expert has set up and operated CNC machining centers for industrial equipment and bearing manufacturers and has worked around robot cells incorporating industrial robots in machining operations with fencing and vision systems used to protect employees.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #266578
This mechanical engineering expert has over 10 years of experience as an expert witness in mechanical engineering and has provided reports, declarations, depositions, and live testimony. This expert has over 40 years of experience in industrial and consumer product design.
This expert has substantial proficiency and experience with common force and motion transfer methods in mechanical engineering, including gears, belt drive systems, cams, chain drive systems, electric motor drives, linkages, and hydraulic and pneumatic systems. This expert has designed gimbal systems for industrial applications and consumer products that use these mechanical systems, as well as motion-dampening devices and a complex combined latching and cam motion system.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #279473
This industrial hygiene expert leads a consulting firm providing industrial hygiene and safety services, has over 5 years of experience in environmental chemistry, and has directed an industrial hygiene and safety engineering program for over 30 years.
This expert has toxic tort litigation support experience, including document review, collaboration with litigation teams, and deposition and trial testimony.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #280642
This industrial hygiene/asbestos expert is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Professional Engineer, holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, and has over 30 years of experience in the environmental industry. This expert previously held a senior environmental engineering role with a major company before co-founding an environmental consulting firm. This expert's primary responsibility is overseeing technical and field operations. This expert is also active in prominent industrial hygiene professional associations and has presented numerous seminars and lectures, as well as provided expert testimony in environmental legal matters.
This expert has direct experience with asbestos remediation and abatement, has designed and implemented asbestos exposure assessments, and is an asbestos special inspector. This expert has provided expert witness services in mold, lead, and asbestos for more than 20 years.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #286984
This plumbing systems and HVAC/mechanical systems expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer and United States Patent Agent whose work is performed in support of litigation, intellectual property disputes, product recalls, insurance investigations, and industrial problem solving. This expert has critiqued product infringement issues within the scope of patent protection and has investigated, analyzed, and reconstructed accidents involving vehicles, machines, mechanical systems, and industrial equipment.
This expert is a member of several professional organizations, including prominent mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, testing standards, accident reconstruction, and heating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning engineering associations.
HVAC and plumbing systems experience includes failure analysis of commercial and residential climate control systems, boilers, chillers, humidifiers, commercial cooling towers, radiators, underground piping, frozen pipes, valves, meters, and sprinklers. Intellectual property experience includes reviewing patents and subject products, analyzing the design or performance of products within the scope of associated claims, and creating visual aids to demonstrate conclusions. Experience also includes patent drafting and prior art searches. Product examples include home goods, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, and toys. Mechanical systems experience includes completing analysis on the design, installation, maintenance, and failure of systems in multiple application areas, including transportation, heavy industry, food industry, exercise equipment, medical equipment, agricultural equipment, home appliances, and office equipment. The analysis is performed with the aid of product research, standards research, product testing, and computational modeling. Examples of transportation include heavy and light vehicles, car haulers, motorcycles, motorized carts, steering systems, brake systems, fifth wheels, axles, drivelines, suspensions, restraint systems, lift gates, combustion motors, superchargers, and turbochargers. Examples of heavy industry include forklift trucks, street sweepers, electric and combustion motors, generators, compressors, industrial pumps, industrial fans, conveyors, crushers, shaker screens, spindles, grinders, industrial peelers, chippers, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, dust collectors, ladders, automated doors and gates, heavy gears, roller bearings, slewing rings, seals, machine guarding, mechanical and powered tools, machining centers, industrial racks, industrial chains, roustabouts, man lifts, elevators, cold forming equipment, forging equipment, safety devices, and safety clothing. Examples of the food industry include can seamers, industrial water purifiers, mixers, and processing equipment. Examples of exercise equipment include stability balls and weightlifting equipment.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #287418
This industrial safety/facilities engineering expert has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing and quality engineering for industrial machinery, heavy commercial vehicle components, and consumer products, with a concentration in manufacturing environments on factory floor safety, OSHA compliance, and LOTO. This expert has a broad background in machine guarding, industrial safeguards, lockout/tagout, personal protective equipment, training, and supervision.
This expert holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and has over 20 years of relevant experience in OSHA regulations and compliance, as well as other recognized standards of care for workplace safety. This expert also has experience with hazard identification and abatement, risk assessments, electrical hazards, and energy control. This expert's background encompasses project and contractor management, including roles and responsibilities in industrial manufacturing facilities, as well as engineering responsibility for coating operations involving substrate preparation processes, including shot blasting.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #290328
This engineering expert is a senior executive and co-founder of an engineering consulting firm, a Professional Engineer, and has over 40 years of experience. In addition to corporate responsibilities, this expert serves as Chief Engineer and Supervising Professional for an engineering consulting group, leading major, multi-discipline investigations into industrial static and rotating equipment failures. This expert has over 40 years of experience using computer applications, including Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Numerical Modeling, Heat Transfer, Pipe Stress Analysis, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). This expert also serves as a third-party consultant on client internal industrial Root Cause Failure Analysis Teams and spent over 10 years at a major chemical company, achieving a senior mechanical engineering specialist and group leader role while receiving a number of patents and over 5 company awards.
This expert has a B.SME, is a registered Professional Engineer in multiple states, and is certified by a U.S. council for international engineering practice for registration in the International Registry of Professional Engineers.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #298083
This industrial engineering expert holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, with an option in Human Factors, from a well-regarded university, and has taught ergonomics and safety engineering for more than two decades.
This expert has conducted research dealing with occupational safety, including OSHA policies and procedures, consumer product safety involving warnings and instructions, product usability, perception and reaction time issues, and the ergonomics of manual material handling tasks.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Industrial Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #301549
This human factors/biomechanics expert holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from a university and is a P.E. and C.H.F.P., with significant experience in industrial and human factors engineering. This expert has conducted and participated in multiple multidisciplinary investigations involving automobile and trucking accidents, nighttime vehicle-pedestrian collisions, industrial and occupational injuries, slip/fall/trip/misstep incidents, and analysis of warnings, procedures, and instructions. This expert's approach to experimental design includes statistical analyses and computational modeling.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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