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Metal Conversations is a podcast by Michael Pfeifer from Industrial Metallurgists, LLC. He talks about metallurgy and metals engineering as they apply to product design and manufacturing. This covers many different areas since considerations about the metals used in products includes alloy selection, supplier selection, manufacturing process development, and fixing quality problems, just to name a few.

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Metal Conversations Michael Pfeifer

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Metal Conversations is a podcast by Michael Pfeifer from Industrial Metallurgists, LLC. He talks about metallurgy and metals engineering as they apply to product design and manufacturing. This covers many different areas since considerations about the metals used in products includes alloy selection, supplier selection, manufacturing process development, and fixing quality problems, just to name a few.

#metallurgy, #productdesign, #manufacturing, #engineering,

    24 Supplier Selection

    24 Supplier Selection

    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/⁠

    • 13 min
    23 Component Design Process

    23 Component Design Process

    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/⁠

    • 13 min
    22 Product Launch Formula

    22 Product Launch Formula

    In this episode, Michael discusses different aspects of product development, product launch, and post-launch where materials engineering will improve product success.



    Developing and launching a product can be stressful – there are many decisions, problems to overcome, and risks to mitigate. While we’d like the process to go smoothly and be able to calmly meet deadlines, this usually is not the case – things we didn’t consider pop up or things that shouldn’t have been a problem become a problem.

     

    Many of the decisions, problems, and risks are associated with the materials used in a product. After all, a product is ultimately an assembly of materials that have been shaped, manipulated, and modified. So, making the effort to engineer the materials will have an impact on product cost, performance, and reliability,
    and on manufacturing throughput and quality.

    To learn more about successful product development, launch, and improvement check these out

    -https://youtu.be/D_rtl7TNrQE

    -https://www.imetllc.com/product-launch-formula/



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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/

    • 12 min
    21 Residual Stress in Metals

    21 Residual Stress in Metals

    In this episode I discuss residual stress in metals

     See this blog post on residual stress to learn more about residual stress https://www.imetllc.com/residual-stress-in-metals/

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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/

    • 7 min
    20 Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

    20 Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

    In this episode I discuss five key metallurgy concepts that apply to all metals and are necessary to understand to be able to apply metallurgy to


    Produce stock metal
    Design and fabricate low-cost, reliable components.
    Figure out the root cause of component failures and production quality problems.

    See this blog post on the five concepts to learn more https://www.imetllc.com/five-key-metallurgy-concepts/



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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/

    • 11 min
    19 Two fundamental metallurgy principles

    19 Two fundamental metallurgy principles

    In this episode I discuss the two fundamental principles that are the foundation of metallurgy and metals engineering. See this blog post to learn more https://www.imetllc.com/two-fundamental-metallurgy-principles/



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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's 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/

    • 11 min

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