Industrial Metallurgists, LLC helps companies make better design, manufacturing, and supplier decisions that involve and affect the materials used in their products.  We help unlock the potential of our clients' products by providing a comprehensive, objective perspective combined with engineering expertise.  We are able to help our clients speed up product development, reduce costs, reduce manufacturing quality problems, and reduce supplier quality problems.  

Our Approach

Our approach combines materials expertise with product design, manufacturing, and supplier quality experience.  This combination gives us a unique perspective that enables us to understand and address many of the challenges and trade-offs that face manufacturing companies as they bring their products to market.

Selecting Optimum Materials

The value and significance of this perspective becomes evident when a person recognizes that a product is an assemblage of various materials that must be properly selected in order to optimize the product’s performance, reliability, cost, and ease of manufacturing.  Selecting sub-optimum materials can result in failed product verification tests, poor manufacturing yields, higher than budgeted costs, and unhappy customers.

Controlling the Properties of Materials

The success of a product also depends on the ability to control the properties of the materials used in a product.  This means developing capable manufacturing processes, selecting capable suppliers, and being able to quickly solve quality problems. 

Competitive and Successful Products

Our experience includes working with engineers from other disciplines, like mechanical and electrical engineers.  Combining our perspective and experience with the perspectives and experience of the engineers at our client companies have resulted in synergies that enabled better and faster decision making, fewer design mistakes and pitfalls, and realization of previously unseen opportunities to reduce costs and improve product performance.  The results have been more competitive and successful products.

Client Peace of Mind

One of our goals is to provide our clients with the peace of mind that their needs and problems are understood and that the guidance and information that we provide will enable well informed decisions, help prevent problems from occurring, quickly solve problems, and uncover opportunities for improvement.