Product Safety, Liability, & Failure to Perform

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Specialization in design for safety, failure investigation and testing, failure to perform, support for litigation, and product design and safety training for the consumer products industry. Qualifications: 1) Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering 2) Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan 3) Certified Six Sigma (statistics) Blackbelt by Whirlpool Corporation 4) Product Safety Tools Training and application at Whirlpool Corporation 5) 30+ years of product design, including automotive, household appliance, industrial product industries. I worked in the consumer goods industry for 19 of my 30+ years in engineering, with extensive experience in the design and testing of consumer products. Knowledge expert for all major clothes dryer and washer/dryer combo types (electric, gas, heat pump, and condensing), including airflow systems, centrifugal fan design, lint collection systems, lint deposit problems, household dryer exhaust venting systems, heater element design, thermal control systems, refrigerant circuits, and dryer cycle controls. Experience in both reactive field safety investigations and proactive hazard assessments. Significant hands-on experience with forced-failure product safety testing for appliances and the application of Product Safety tools with risk assessment to identify, document, and close product hazards. Engineering Skills: • Computer aided design CAD • Simulation based design SBD • Failure mode and effects analysis FMEA • Fault Tree Analysis FTA • Tolerance analysis • Geometric tolerancing and dimensioning GD&T • Design of Experiments DOE • Components of Variance COV