Engineering and producing a product or structure involves many decisions and actions, and occasionally mistakes are made. Sometimes they are easy to fix and not costly. Other times the mistakes take a great deal of effort and money to fix. Regardless, the general categories of mistakes can be put into two categories – mistakes due to process or procedure errors and mistakes due to ignorance.

in this episode Michael discusses these types of mistakes, their causes, and ways to prevent them from occurring.

To learn more about check out this video and article.

⁠https://www.youtu.be/3lCGI-Oav7o

https://www.imetllc.com/engineering-mistakes-causes-and-prevention/⁠

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Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., PE is a metallurgist and metals engineer. He works with design and manufacturing clients to help with

• Component materials selection
• Manufacturing process development
• Supplier evaluation
• Failure analysis and root cause analysis

He received a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a Professional Engineer, licensed in Illinois. He wrote a book - Materials Enabled Designs. It teaches how to select materials that optimize product performance, reliability, and cost.

For more information about Michael go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.imetllc.com/about/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Industrial Metallurgists offer metallurgy and metals engineering consulting and training. The training is geared to design, manufacturing, and quality engineers. More information about Industrial Metallurgists' services and training is at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.imetllc.com/⁠⁠

Supplier selection involves many considerations from several different perspectives, such as design engineering, quality engineering, sourcing, finance, and shipping and logistics.

in this episode Michael discusses supplier selection considerations based on the materials engineering perspective, with a focus on metal stock and metal components.

To learn more about the supplier selection from the materials engineering perspective check out this video and article.

https://youtu.be/gxuJ2W4l0DE

https://www.imetllc.com/supplier-selection/

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Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., PE is a metallurgist and metals engineer. He works with design and manufacturing clients to help with

• Component materials selection
• Manufacturing process development
• Supplier evaluation
• Failure analysis and root cause analysis

He received a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a Professional Engineer, licensed in Illinois. He wrote a book - Materials Enabled Designs. It teaches how to select materials that optimize product performance, reliability, and cost.

For more information about Michael go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.imetllc.com/about/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Industrial Metallurgists offer metallurgy and metals engineering consulting and training. The training is geared to design, manufacturing, and quality engineers. More information about Industrial Metallurgists' services and training is at ⁠⁠https://www.imetllc.com/⁠

Michael discusses a high level view of the component design process from the metals engineering perspective.

To learn more about the component design process, check out these resources:

https://youtu.be/4qGDbbBe4g4

https://www.imetllc.com/materials-selection/

https://www.imetllc.com/materials-selection-design-requirements/

https://www.imetllc.com/designing-optimized-components/

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Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., PE is a metallurgist and metals engineer. He works with design and manufacturing clients to help with

• Component materials selection
• Manufacturing process development
• Supplier evaluation
• Failure analysis and root cause analysis

He received a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. He is a Professional Engineer, licensed in Illinois. He wrote a book - Materials Enabled Designs. It teaches how to select materials that optimize product performance, reliability, and cost.

For more information about Michael go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.imetllc.com/about/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Industrial Metallurgists offer metallurgy and metals engineering consulting and training. The training is geared to design, manufacturing, and quality engineers. More information about Industrial Metallurgists' services and training is at

⁠https://www.imetllc.com/⁠