Consulting
Not every business can maintain a full in-house metallurgical laboratory. From literature review to materials selection, processing, and validation, we can be part of your team, bringing decades of metallurgical experience to your toughest material questions.
Laboratory
Selection to validation
Part of your team
Any size business
An extension of your team
Not every organization can justify a full in-house metallurgical laboratory. That is where we come in. From literature review to materials selection, processing, and validation, we can be part of your team, engaging at whatever depth your project requires and stepping in wherever specialized materials expertise is needed.
How we help
Our consulting expertise spans the full life of a material: from choosing it, through optimizing how it is processed, to defending it when disputes arise:
- Materials selection
- Material and process optimization
- Heat-treating optimization
- Developing specifications for materials and processes
- Performing on-site evaluations and recommending corrective actions or testing as appropriate
- Assisting to solve product quality problems
- Comparing vendor or competitive products
- Preparing material and process specifications for in-house quality control
- Investigating environmental effects on a product or material
Disputes and proposals
Beyond the lab bench, we provide expert-witness and opinion assistance in trade conflicts, materials disputes, and litigation, and we support Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal writing for organizations pursuing funded development work.
Consulting & materials selection
Often ordered together
Failure Analysis
Root-cause investigation to resolve quality problems and material disputes.
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Field verification of alloy grade for quality control and material selection.
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Assessing environmental effects on a material to guide selection and processing.
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Tell us the problem: a material to select, a process to optimize, a specification to write, or a dispute to resolve. We will meet you at the right level of engagement and see it through.