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

• Expert Witness #259350

  This expert holds a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Licensed Professional Engineer. This expert has:

  -  extensive experience in automotive, and industrial equipment and systems;

  -  design of manufacturing operations and specialized equipment;

  -  authored and edited Operations and Maintenance manuals for plant equipment;

  -  experience with selection of electric motors for use both in manufacturing operation and in industrial machinery for powering pumps, fans, and other rotary motion;

  -  setup assembly line and batch type manufacturing processes for production of various parts, assemblies, and machines;

  -  worked with electric vehicles, both conversion from gasoline, and as manufactured

  -  knowledge of the operation of vehicle electric motors both as motive power and for auxiliary systems;

  -  diagnosed and repaired generators and alternators for vehicle system battery charging.

  This expert has many years of experience in the design, manufacture, repair, and operation of passenger and high-performance motorcycles and racing cars.

  
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• Expert Witness #256969

  This expert has focused a consulting, engineering and design practice on towing and trailering equipment, heavy equipment, mobile equipment, and oil/gas drilling equipment, much of which is hitch mounted. This expert has analyzed and performed testing on multiple trailer auxiliary connections (safety chains/cables) and has researched federal, state, and SAE standards for trailer auxiliary connections. This expert is a member of the NATM (National Association of Trailer Manufacturers) and NATDA (North American Trailer Dealers Association. This expert is responsible for ground up designs of 5^th wheel style trailers and has performed structural analyses on small and large flatbed trailers and enclosed utility trailers (bumper pull and gooseneck). This expert has also designed mounting platers, and various hitch-mounted products.

  
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• Expert Witness #255238

  This expert is an independent consultant in the safe use and design of construction, industrial, and agricultural equipment. This expert's experience includes the evaluation of product design, warnings development and safety and operational training. This expert served as a delegate on various ISO and ANSI subcommittees and is as a noted authority on lifting equipment safety.

  
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• Expert Witness #251086

  This expert is President, CEO and Principal Engineer for a highly sought-after engineering consultancy. A Graduate Mechanical Engineer with many years of professional, domestic and international engineering system design & material defect analysis experience, this expert has been called upon to examine and investigate numerous design, fabrication and operational issues related to various processes being performed, items being fabricated and parts being produced in volumes and at rapid rates. These have included the designing and overseeing of the installation of 83 brand new production lines of machinery and equipment for the production of diapers and various feminine hygiene products. Additionally, this expert has investigated the assembly line and product defect failures associated with juice packet spout application failures which caused excessive product leakage and large storage issues. Such design and product assembly processes relied heavily on photoelectric cells, high speed counters, adjustable guideways and multiple mechanical assemblies that directed parts into specific positions in order to be mated up with other components all at excessively high speeds. These efforts ranged from the insert of the raw materials to the folded or packaged finished product ready for shipment. Over the course of this expert's years of design, fabrication, construction and project management work combined with years of mechanical investigation and testing experience, this expert has centered work around mechanical system and material component analyses. Retained by both national and international insurance organizations, plaintiff and defense law firms and private industry to perform mechanical equipment assessments and causation evaluations, this expert has extensive prior litigation history including deposition and courtroom testimony.

  
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• Expert Witness #216341

  This expert provides Expert Witness, Investigation, and Technical Consulting services for Industrial Control Systems, Automated Systems, and Safety Systems. This expert has litigated several cases that involve PLC ladder logic, and has designed scores of systems which utilize PLC code. This expert manages an automation engineering group, and writes/analyzes PLC code virtually every day. Experience includes:

  Automated Machinery – Manufacturing Plants, Production Plants

  Robotics – Assembly Lines, Semiconductor Plants, Packaging Plants

  Control Systems – PLC Controls, Computer Controlled Machines

  Automatic and Revolving Doors

  Amusement Park Rides – Control Systems, Safety Systems

  Bowling Centers – Equipment Systems

  Mining – Surface and Strip Mining, Coal, Quarry, Minerals, Oilsands, Conveyors, and Crushers

  Lasers – Etching Equipment, Production Lines

  Egg Production and Packaging

  Food and Beverage Plants – Snack Foods, Cereal, Pasta, Soft Drinks, Beer, Meat Packaging

  Breweries

  Conveyors – Belt Conveyors, Bucket Conveyors, Packaging Machines, Vibratory Systems

  Wood Production – Sawmills, Chippers, Wood Pellet Plants

  Patents – Control Systems, Automated Devices, Production and Manufacturing Machines

  Contract Disputes – Control Systems, Production Equipment, Manufacturing Equipment

  This expert has acquired many years of experience in electrical, electronic, automation, robotics, bulk materials handling, and mechanical system design. As an inventor, this expert holds several electronic and mechanical patents. This expert’s technical background includes extensive experience with digital logic circuits, vision systems, laser research involving Co2 lasers (Class 4 100 watt), and laser diodes (Class 3B). This expert has established and managed several engineering, CAD, automation, and field service groups, for deployment of automated machinery in the food, beverage, refinery, coal, oil sands, pharmaceutical, and chemical plant industries. Most of this work carried over to the field, where this expert managed electrical and mechanical field construction projects.
  
  This expert’s memberships have included ISA (Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society), and AEE (The Association of Energy Engineers). Authorships include Whitepapers for RAM (Remote Asset Management), Energy Management, Automation, and cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) for FDA related validation procedures in lab environments. Intellectual property and patent experience includes work as a Technical Expert Witness involving patent infringement and automation related accidents.

  
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• Expert Witness #235236

  This expert is an electro-mechanical engineer specializing in design and development of electronic, mechanical and electro-mechanical machinery and equipment for commercial and consumer products, material handling systems, automated assembly machines, weaving and tufting machines and sub-systems. This expert's extensive experience in developing products and machine systems has qualified this expert as an expert in analyzing a multitude of products, systems and machines. This expert has conceived of, designed, fabricated, produced and supplied over sixty (60) machines and products to clients and customers and is quite familiar with machine operating tolerances as well as the patent process. This expert has designed, fabricated and supplied a folding machine that would fold a variety of different disposable surgical sheets where the operating slit was at the outside edge of the last fold. This expert holds many patents for the equipment and products designed, built and manufactured for clients. This expert understands the litigation process; knows the role as an expert witness and/or consultant; this includes over one thousand depositions and over two hundred trials in both federal and state courts in numerous states in the US.

  
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• Expert Witness #256408

  This expert holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. This expert's field of specialty is Engineering Design, and this expert has worked on various types of equipment from pipes and valves to propulsion equipment to automotive power systems and nuclear power plants. This expert has served as an independent engineering consultant for many years.

  
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• Expert Witness #250600

  This expert has an extensive background in the physical sciences and mathematics: engineering and science degrees plus many years in the high-technology defense/aerospace industry. This expert's forensic experience includes cases dealing with electric circuits, electric shock, lightning damage, electrically ignited fires, wire and radio communications, radio interference, cellular and wireless telephone technology, audio and video reproduction, surveillance and tracking systems, industrial machinery controls, traffic radar and lidar, automotive electronics, and other electrical and electronic equipment.

  One project required this expert to examine and disassemble a free-standing ATM in a laboratory in order to find the design flaw that led to its occasional malfunction (and of other similar ATMs).

  This expert's expertise in electronic computing and controls includes:

  -  thorough training in electrical engineering and the physical sciences,

  -  wide-ranging practice in the lab, in the field, and in the courtroom,

  -  ability to constructively investigate and illuminate the capabilities and limitations of equipment operating, or failing, in the physical world.

  This expert's training and experience with hundreds of incidents involving failures, mis-designs, and malfunctions allows this expert to understand and analyze the "next new thing" -- from smartphones to the smart grid -- accurately and efficiently.

  This expert has contributed to a variety of legal matters all based on electrical equipment and electronic computing and controls technology including: electric shock, electrical wiring, electrical fire and lightning damage, audio and video recording, radio broadcasting, traffic radar and lidar, electronic control circuitry, cellular phone localization, electronic surveillance, consumer electronics capabilities, automobile control systems, radio and telephone communication, electrical accidents, and industrial machinery.  This expert has been deposed 30 times and testified in state and federal courts 30 times (different cases).

  
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• Expert Witness #231361

  This expert is a licensed professional engineer and expert witness who holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. This expert has many years of professional experience in mechanical engineering, consumer product design, research and development, forensic investigation and litigation support. Additionally, this expert holds over twenty patents.

  Prior to focusing on work as a forensic mechanical engineer and serving as an expert witness, this expert led an accomplished engineering career designing and developing innovative mechanical components and high-pressure equipment and conducting failure analyses over a broad variety of situations, most of which led to patents. This included designing and developing high-volume machined metal and injection-molded plastic parts, low-pressure seals, springs and stampings as well as manufacturing processes for composites, plastics and adhesive bonding. Working in research and development for major corporations in the aeronautical, petroleum, fluid power and automotive industries, as well as serving for over a decade as a forensic expert witness, this expert draws on a comprehensive background of diverse engineering experience to assist clients with cases involving evaluations of consumer products and commercial, industrial and agricultural equipment for products liability issues and patent disputes, including significant deposition and courtroom testimony experience.

  
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• Expert Witness #214749

  This exercise equipment and patent expert is a mechanical engineer with extensive experience developing innovative exercise and sports products that use advanced technology to enhance athletic performance and user experience. This expert has over 10 years of experience applying advanced technologies across exercise and sporting contexts, including product concept formulation, prototype design, testing, biomechanics, sports equipment, and technology-driven product development.

  This expert has worked as an independent consultant and served in a founding leadership role at a sports innovation center at a prestigious technical university, where work included leading the development of new products and technologies from early concept through final prototype design and testing. Projects have received departmental, conference, and international sports-design awards. This expert has presented on sports technology for conferences and committees internationally and has received extensive media coverage through major business, science, sports, and general-interest publications and broadcast programs.

  This expert has provided expert witness services in numerous patent litigation matters relating to sports technology, including deposition testimony. Patent-related experience includes matters involving exercise and sports equipment, portable training devices, golf cleats, golf clubs, golf balls, and golf grips.

  This expert holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics.

  This expert previously held a senior scientific role at a technology company developing biomechanics, molecular modeling, and bioinformatics software products. Work included directing multiple projects sponsored by a U.S. space agency, including a project coupling multibody dynamics analysis techniques for modeling human motion with general systems performance theory. Human performance testing and evaluation equipment using these techniques was later commercialized.

  This expert also worked as an Aerospace Engineer for a U.S. space agency, investigating dynamic interactions between payloads and attachment points in the Space Shuttle to determine when payload-shuttle coupling effects could be neglected in coupled simulations. This expert also adapted lunar-landing simulation software for a Mars lander program.

  Doctoral research included developing an analytical technique to predict and determine the stability of structural responses to changes in applied harmonic forcing. This expert applied the method to analytical models of shallow arches and buckled beams, structural shapes common to sports products, and demonstrated the ability to characterize system response intricacies and identify previously undetected coexisting stable and chaotic solutions.

  This expert's education includes a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, an MS in Mechanical Engineering, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and a BA in Psychology from well-regarded universities.

  Professional affiliations and service have included advisory and technical consulting roles for fitness and sports organizations, leadership in an international sports engineering association, participation in a national science design workshop series, technical review work for golf product offerings, international expert review committee service, journal editing and reviewing, scientific committee work, conference leadership, and educational outreach in sports science, engineering, and technology.

  This expert has served on scientific committees, chaired sessions, and helped lead conferences focused on sports engineering, sports technology, golf technology, shoes and apparel, and industry needs in sports product development. This work has included participation in international engineering and sports technology conferences hosted by universities, technical institutions, and professional organizations.

  This expert has taught and presented on topics including sports technology innovation, marketable product development, high-speed imaging in sports product design, sports engineering, innovative technologies in sport, sports performance innovation, multimedia sports product development education, aerodynamics, materials, product development processes, sports and rehabilitation engineering, innovation success prediction, smart textiles, material science in sports, sports equipment prototype production, product development in laboratory contexts, and science education through sports.

  This expert has produced over 45 publications and media appearances concerning sports engineering, sports technology, sports equipment design, bicycle and multisport equipment, wingsuit design, baseball chest protection equipment, sports innovation programs, baseball bat performance, sports apparel materials, equipment modeling, climbing and mountaineering equipment, ice screw failure, and aerospace engineering education.

  
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• Expert Witness #282679

  This mechanical equipment expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential and has extensive experience in the design and analysis of mechanical equipment.

  This expert has experience with patents involving vehicle storage systems, including shelves and drawers, as well as general electromechanical products, grain bins and support structures, material handling systems, and residential shelving. Additional product experience includes cookware, towel warmers, heat exchangers, HVAC systems, and related mechanical equipment.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #282994

  This mechanical engineering/HVAC expert is a Forensic Engineer who earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Architectural Engineering, and practiced as a professional engineer (P.E.) for over 20 years before becoming a Forensic Engineer. This work included designing and analyzing heating and cooling equipment for a major manufacturer, performing HVAC and mechanical design and consulting, and licensed professional practice involving the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of mechanical, electrical, HVAC, and industrial equipment. This expert holds professional engineering licenses in several states as well as National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) licensure in Mechanical and HVAC.

  This expert is knowledgeable in all aspects of HVAC, including the fabrication and installation of ductwork, mechanical systems, and HVAC equipment. The forensic engineering work has included losses and injuries associated with buildings and with HVAC mechanical designs, installations, maintenance, and service, and includes routine failure analysis related to fuel-burning equipment, mechanical, electrical, and HVAC equipment.

  
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• Expert Witness #286260

  This food processing and equipment design expert holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) and HACCP Instructor, and manages and expands food process engineering extension programs related to process optimization and facility design.

  Experience with food packaging and slicing includes the design and installation of packaging lines for meats, snacks, beverages, fruits, vegetables, purees, solids, and powders; cutting meats, fruits, vegetables, and confections into slices, shreds, grated forms, cubes, and blocks; patent work involving meat cutter/separator technology; complex conveying systems for raw materials and containers; singulating, combining, interleaving, stacking, and separating; packaging machinery design and installation, including fillers, labelers, case erectors, casers, delta robots, vision systems, inspection systems, and cleaning systems for packaging and slicing equipment, including CIP and COP.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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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 #293873

  This mechanical engineering expert is a licensed Professional Engineer with graduate degrees in engineering and has inspected and tested agricultural tractors, skid steer loaders, construction equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, plow trucks, motorcycles, and passenger vehicles as part of forensic engineering investigations and accident reconstructions. This expert has family farming experience and familiarity with agricultural implements, harvesters, and tractors, including maintenance and operation of farm equipment, experience with a variety of industrial equipment, and engineering assessments involving valves and similar equipment for diverse applications.

  This expert has experience inspecting spreaders and sprayers, as well as reviewing original equipment manufacturer engineering design documents and maintenance records in matters involving agricultural and construction equipment.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #293908

  This mechanical engineering expert holds a BSME and is a P.E., with over 10 years of experience in varied mechanical engineering projects. This expert holds a number of patents and has direct work experience in the design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of automated equipment.

  This expert's career has centered around automated equipment and product development. This expert has maintained automated equipment as a mechanic and has also designed, installed, and performed start-up on automated equipment as an engineer. Along the way, this expert has helped guide clients through the product development process, including defining initial specifications and managing timelines and client expectations. It is best to have project specifications and project milestones defined at the outset of a contract.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #301903

  This semiconductor fab equipment expert holds a PhD and has progressive experience in the research, design, implementation, production, and use of semiconductor fabrication equipment, primarily plasma strip, etch, and CVD equipment, and related technologies.

  This expert has provided expert evaluations and prior art determinations for over 30 years, has testified at trial, and has worked on IPR matters. This expert is a named inventor on over 20 patents involving semiconductor processing and semiconductor manufacturing equipment technologies.

  
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