Expert Details
Fasteners
ID: 107791
Illinois, USA
Expert has expertise with the design, application, and manufacturing of threaded fasteners and parts. He has worked with self-tapping screws and the associated thread cutting, forming, and high-performance thread rolling. He is knowledgeable of the drive systems for a variety of screws, involving internal recesses and external drive surfaces. He is experienced with machine screws and bolts of all types and materials, including those for consumer products and automotive, heavy equipment, medical, construction, and micro-miniature applications. Expert is familiar with pre-loading issues, plating, coating, and lubricants for both English and Metric systems.
Expert has experience with the design, application, and troubleshooting of locknuts, both metal and nylon insert types. He is familiar with wrenchable and self-wrenching locknuts. He can answer questions on clinch nuts, flush mount styles, and caged captive styles as well as issues related to materials, coatings, lubricants, and torque.
Expert's experience with screw machines includes work with Swiss, single and multiple-spindle processes, numerical control, and wire turning machines. His design knowledge provides efficiency at the blueprint stage for documentation clarity. His proficiency with microfinishes, materials, coatings, and handling of finished work has led to the sourcing of the most efficient processes compatible with the required dimensions, quantity, and materials.
Expert has worked with the design, application, and troubleshooting of wet and dry, high- and low-pressure, sealing applications, achieved with nuts and screws. He can address issues related to calibration, self-locking, and reusability.
Expert is experienced with the cold heading of standard products as well as specially formed shapes. He has redesigned products to reduce two or more parts into a single shape while at the same time retaining the original function in assembly. He is familiar with head slotting, trimming, point slotting, and various point types.
During his employment at Abbott Interfast, Expert published an internal newsletter to the marketing department on products and applications. He has presented comprehensive clinics on threaded fasteners, touching on issues related to design, selection, drive systems, installation processes, materials, platings and applications.During his career, Expert has provided technical support to inside and outside sales personnel covering the full scope of products within the range of commodities defined under his area of expertise, including interfacing with customer personnel.Additionally, throughout his career Expert has consistently visited customers to troubleshoot applications involving the full spread of commodities within his area of expertise and also designed and made recommendations on new products and troublesome applications. He is experienced and comfortable with on-site consulting.
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1995 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1994 to 1995 | Employer: Abbott Interfast Corporation | Title: Vice President | Department: Product Development |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1990 to 1993 | Employer: Abbott Interfast Corporation | Title: Vice President & National Sales Manager | Department: Product Development |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1975 to 1990 | Employer: Abbott Interfast Corporation | Title: Vice President | Department: Product Development |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1971 to 1975 | Employer: Abbott Interfast Corporation | Title: National Sales Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1970 to 1971 | Employer: Abbott Interfast Corporation | Title: Midwest Sales Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1964 to 1970 | Employer: Abbott Interfast Corporation | Title: District Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Available upon request. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
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| Years: to Present | Agency: Aeromechanical Fastener Requirement Group, Mil-Std-1515 | Role: | Description: Expert worked for the Aeromechanical Fastener Requirement Group for ten years. His goal was to stimulate development of a military specification covering sealing lock nuts for wet wings, fuel containment and hydraulic joint sealing and the applicable test specification parameters. He attended regular meetings nationally and contributed to the relevant committees. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Expert is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Aeromechanical Fastener Requirements Group. |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| While at Interfast Corporation, Expert was named Manager of the Year in both 1986 and 1992. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert is the author of fifteen patents and one pending patent associated with many areas of fastener and hardware technology. Refer to the "Publications" section below for more patent highlights. These five designs particularly illustrate how Expert's inventions run the gamut in fastener technology: high performance deck screws; a safety/performance device for loggers footwear for extreme topography; an electronics assembly; an electro-mechanics assembly; and hardware for a fluid power application. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has conducted research work involving manufacturing and process costs and availability of specific designs. He has also given testimony regarding the design and fail-safe reliability of a lock nut application for a marine transmission linkage. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| Expert has experience locating vendors of standard fasteners, cold-headed special fasteners, locknuts, and bulk screw machine parts. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| He has executed field sales of a wide range of fasteners. He also managed outside and inside sales groups and customer service personnel. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Throughout his career Expert has executed successful troubleshooting on problem applications and cost reduction issues including converting machined parts to the cold headed process. |
Fields of Expertise
fastener manufacturing, industrial fastener, mechanical fastener, mechanical fastener standard, plastic fastener, quick-release fastener, rivet, screw, screw thread, set screw, sheet-metal screw, slotted-head screw, hexagonal-head bolt, high-strength bolt, metric fastener, plastic bolt, round-head bolt, square-head bolt, threaded fastener, threaded fastener engineering, threaded fastener failure analysis, threaded fastener manufacturing, toggle bolt, locknut, lock washer, hexagonal nut, lug nut, square nut, washer, tee nut, screw machine, automatic screw machine product quality control, fastening bolt, cold metal bending, fastening nut, fastening lock, fastener coating material, fastening spline, cold forging, cold forming, latching, blind fastener, anchor point, Belleville washer, bolting live loading, thermoplastic material selection, Industrial Fasteners Institute, ferrous metal heat treatment, buttress thread, metal alloy heat treatment, boss, boss design, tension testing, steel stamping, metal fastener, automation, Swiss screw machine, screw thread strength, screw thread testing, device patent, screw thread formation, screw thread design, screw thread inspection, screw thread form, screw thread measurement, fastener quality, steel heat treatment, ferrous metal machining, ferrous metal, automatic screw machine maintenance, automatic screw machine tooling, surface-mount component, competitive analysis, threaded fastener torque-tension test equipment, threaded fastener reliability, threaded fastener tightening, die (device), metal powder pressing, metal die stamping, fastener pin, threaded fastener testing machine design, threaded fastener testing machine, threaded fastener testing, mechanical fastener code, deep drawing, cold metal extrusion, metal punching, metal heat treatment, nonferrous metal, tiebolt, tempering, tapping, structural bolt, staybolt, rock bolt, retaining ring, metal quenching, material punching, nail, metal stamping, metal screw, metal coining, metal bending, latch, grommet, dowel, cotter pin, cold rolling, cold metal drawing, cold extrusion, clip, clevis, automatic screw machine, anchor bolt, anaerobic adhesive