Manufacturing Equipment Expert Witnesses
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Manufacturing equipment expert witness candidates are usually licensed professional engineers with extensive experience and expertise in mechanical engineering, industrial design, equipment appraisal, industrial equipment, and/or manufacturing. 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 equipment.
Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for an expert witness in the manufacturing equipment area, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the attorney in charge. Whether it’s for a patent case or for pre-litigation reverse engineering work, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn the search around quickly. The firm provides the right balance of expertise and testimony when sourcing the perfect expert for the job at hand.
An expert in manufacturing equipment could 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). A forensic engineer with specific knowledge in manufacturing equipment might provide expert opinion in a matter like a product liability case, or provide testimony in a workplace safety case. Litigation support could include expert witness services such as an expert report, failure analysis, accident reconstruction, forensic analysis, and expert witness testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a mechanical engineering expert witness with prior experience as a testifying expert. A manufacturing equipment expert needs to not only have expertise, but must also possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the evidence. In addition, clients may seek a subject matter expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
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Manufacturing Equipment 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.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Manufacturing Equipment experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Manufacturing Equipment landscape.
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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment 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 Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #255188
This expert is Principal of an appraisal firm with many years of experience as full time appraiser. Certified by the American Society of Appraisers with a Senior Appraiser designation in the Machinery & Technical Specialties Discipline, this expert has completed machinery and equipment appraisals, including:
- Transportation Equipment
- Manufacturing Equipment
- Material Handling Equipment
- Scrap Metal Recycle
- Construction/Agriculture Equipment
This expert has a wide range of appraisal experience with emphasis in providing valuations for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) appraisal requirements, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) requirements, bankruptcy appraisals, insurance appraisals, and casualty loss appraisals. This expert has provided both Restricted and Full Appraisal Reports, and has served as an expert witness being deposed and testifying in court.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #226792
This expert is an independent semiconductor manufacturing and processing consultant. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from a prestigious university where the focus was, among other topics, the multi-purpose processing chamber for CVD, etch, and sputtering with measurement capability. This expert performed all wafer processing to construct MIS capacitors, including lithography, etch, CVD and PVD. As a consultant this expert reviewed new semiconductor technologies for etching and particle reduction in semiconductor processing chambers. This expert also suggested advanced semiconductor process equipment engineering for a military laboratory. This expert has strong experience as an expert witness, having served in five matters, and having given depositions and testified at trial on semiconductor manufacturing and semiconductor processing. This expert is well-published, and holds four utility patents.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #238561
This expert is a Professional Engineer with Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Civil Engineering degrees and certificates. This expert has a good deal of ladder logic experience within the context of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Computer Numerical Controls (CNC). This expert was engaged in the design, manufacture, installation and startup of robotic pick and place machinery, performing all engineering calculations necessary in the design of these robotic machines and programming the PLCs during the initial installation period. This expert has also dealt with the design and construction of industrial material handling systems, such as conveyors, piping systems, crane, monorails, robotics, PLCs, hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical controls. This expert had sole responsibility for designing, installing, programming and startup of CNC for manufacturing machine equipment, including selection of components, ladder logic programming, modification of machinery, and machine design. This expert holds two U.S. Patents and is working on two others. This expert has been engaged as an expert witness in a number of cases.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #256380
This mechanical engineering and design expert is a Professional Engineer and has served as a forensic consultant in product liability, accident, and safety matters for over 25 years.
This expert was previously responsible for engineering and new product development for sports medicine products. This expert has specific expertise in exercise equipment, as well as experience in machinery, manufacturing, materials, and testing. This expert can evaluate whether equipment involved in injury accidents complied with proper engineering design practice and applicable industry standards, and whether user actions contributed to the incident.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #256961
This trailer expert holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Safety Professional, and has worked on and evaluated the design of numerous trailers, including dump trailers, air compressor trailers, custom recycling trailers, utility trailers, flatbed trailers, enclosed trailers, and similar equipment.
This expert has been a member of national trailer manufacturing and trailer dealer associations and has testified on many occasions.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #269989
This semiconductor fab equipment expert has been responsible for the evaluation and selection of many pieces of semiconductor manufacturing and test equipment. This expert has been deposed many times and has testified at trial.
This expert worked at a semiconductor equipment company over 20 years ago but did not work on etch, strip, or clean systems.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #277656
This mechanical and metallurgical engineering expert holds a PE and provides forensic and consulting engineering services using a combination of mechanical and metallurgical engineering experience, including plastics, along with related education. This expert is a registered professional engineer in Texas and more than 25 other states, with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing in the metals processing industries, over 30 years performing failure analyses, and over 25 years investigating claims. Assignments have involved mechanical equipment, appliances, oil and gas production and transmission equipment, plumbing, HVAC, heavy equipment, machine tools, cranes and wire cables, metal roofs, manufacturing and thermal processes, among many others.
Over the course of over 15 years, this expert has investigated a number of oilfield assignments, including pipelines, separators, heat treaters, workover rigs, drilling rigs, and associated equipment. This expert has worked with gas compression equipment at well sites and midstream locations, including diesel-driven and turbine-driven equipment, and with a variety of valves used in high-pressure applications, including those used with natural gas.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified in a wide variety of matters, including personal injury and property damage, in both state and federal court, and has testified by deposition more than 150 times and in court more than 15 times. Expert opinions and testimony have never been excluded.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #283318
This boiler system expert specializes in forensic investigations of mechanical, plumbing, and HVAC system failures for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. This expert has knowledge and experience regarding pre-task planning, lockout/tagout procedures, control of hazardous materials in factory environments, ASME boiler code, and ANSI pipe labeling requirements.
This expert has worked in a facilities engineering role on a large-scale retrofit project at a semiconductor manufacturing facility, focusing on HVAC equipment used to maintain cleanroom conditions. The project involved decommissioning and removing older HVAC equipment, piping, and ductwork, as well as installing and commissioning new HVAC equipment, piping, and ductwork. Duties included reviewing demolition and installation drawings to ensure conformance with specifications and standards, as well as generating pre-task plans for the modification and removal of operational or hazardous HVAC equipment, piping, and ductwork.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #284068
This semiconductor fab equipment expert holds a PhD, is a PE, and is a professor at a well-regarded university with over 30 years of experience teaching, conducting research, and supervising MS and PhD students in semiconductor design and manufacturing.
This expert has designed, fabricated, and modeled state-of-the-art semiconductor devices and ICs fabricated using instrumentation and equipment such as plasma etching, plasma ashing, Reactive Ion Etching (RIE), and plasma deposition. This expert has served as an expert witness and is preparing to take the patent bar exam.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #287016
This medical device design and development expert has over 30 years of experience using design control processes to develop a wide range of medical devices from concept through manufacturing.
This expert has worked and consulted for several start-up companies and has developed design control processes, with familiarity in requirements for successfully developing and transferring products to manufacturing. In prior roles, this expert was responsible for R&D, Quality, Operations, and Regulatory functions, with an understanding of how these areas interact with each other and with Sales and Marketing.
This expert has submitted several 510k and CE Mark submissions for products including catheters, spinal implants, and capital equipment, and successfully received market clearance. This expert has served as an expert witness in multiple matters.
Start Manufacturing Equipment 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 Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #288624
This cosmetics chemist expert holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and has spent a career in the personal care, beauty, and cosmetics industry, continuously developing, testing, and manufacturing cosmetics for over 55 years.
This expert began a career in research laboratories formulating hair dyes and hair colors before moving into a chemist role with another cosmetics organization. In a corporate vice president role overseeing worldwide research and development for a major personal care company, this expert's responsibilities included assessing product formulations, manufacturing operations, capabilities and equipment, personnel, patents, synergies, and product claims support.
This expert holds over 40 patents and is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has defended national television cosmetic advertising claims before a national advertising self-regulatory body and has presented defenses of competitor-challenged advertising before that body.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #299544
This manufacturing equipment expert holds PE, FCIBSE, and LEED AP credentials and has experience in the design and control systems for laboratories and research facilities, microelectronic facilities, and pharmaceutical facilities.
This expert does not believe the FDA has a lead-specific cleaning protocol for process equipment, but has noted that certain types of cleaning agents are more effective against lead than others. This expert has experience providing expert witness testimony and participating in settlement discussions and mediation.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert Witness #299853
This pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment expert has over 15 years of experience spanning clinical research operations, regulatory affairs, and FDA consulting, including direct work in contamination control, GCP/GMP compliance, and equipment standards for ingestible product manufacturing.
Start Manufacturing Equipment Expert SearchExpert 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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