Keynote Speakers

Dean Beutel
Director of Technical Resources
Caterpillar

Dean Beutel is the Director of the Technical Resources division of Caterpillar’s Tractor manufacturing facility.  His organization supports the infrastructure needs for five factories in three states - with approximately 400,000 sq. meters of manufacturing space under roof.

Dean joined Caterpillar in 1978 as a sweeper, and just celebrated his 29th service anniversary.  He obtained his certification as a journeyman machinist in 1984, as well as his Bachelor’s degree from Bradley University in Production Operations the same year.  He was certified as a Quality Engineer by the ASQ in 1987, and maintains this accreditation.

He has held various positions within the manufacturing and precision engineering areas since 1984, working in Tractors, Hydraulics, Transmissions, and Fuel Systems during this time.  He moved from the Operations environment into an R&D role in 1990, and in late 2003 returned to the Tractor Operations group with his primary focus being a major modernization of the Tractor manufacturing facility.

Dr. Kenneth C. Russell
Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and Nuclear Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MIT

Dr. Russell is Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy and Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. His research interests are focused on theoretical and experimental studies of kinetic processes in alloys. Current topics of interest include (1) Nucleation during bulk or surface irradiation, (2) Self organizing systems, (3) Solidification of controlled porosity solids, (4) Phase transformations in solids.

He specializes in physical metallurgy, forensic metallurgy, and failure analysis. He frequently consults on legal cases involving catastrophic failure of mechanical systems, and often utilizes precision measurement systems and non-destructive testing in his forensic analysis for clients. He has a regular column called "Calamities" in the engineering magazine Design News, which chronicles some of his more intriguing cases.

In his Keynote, Dr. Russell will reflect on some his notable cases and his experiences in applying various metallurgical, failure analysis, and measurement techniques and NDT technologies for the benefit of his clients. With his bubbly and insightful style, he will also highlight some thoughts on "ambulance chasing", especially with all of the news accounts about product recalls, and how product manufacturers and measurement system manufacturers and NDT system manufacturers can better serve their Customers, while keeping the ambulance chasers away.

Additional information about Dr. Russell can be found at the MIT Faculty information web site, http://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/faculty/kenruss/

Ray Admire
Lockheed Martin MFC

Coordinate Measurement Specialist with Over Twenty-Two Years Combined Experience In The Quality Organization With Cartesian Coordinates And Computer Assisted Measurement Systems. GD&T Level-4 and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certifications. Secretary of the DMSC, Interim Chairman of the QUIPP (Quality Control Process Planning), representative for Lockheed Martin on several other standardization activities for the past seven years (I++, DMIS). Leads collaborative CMM Programming Team for five sites.

Jon Baldwin
MetroSage LLC

Jon earned his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1967. He has conducted and directed research and development projects in the measurement sciences from that time onward. He worked with MultiMetrics Inc. as principal designer of the GEOMET software system for analysis of CMM data, with major interests in system architecture and user interface design. He was later chief operating officer of GEOMET Systems Inc., directing the design of software for direct computer controlled CMMs and successfully retrofitting the software to many different CMM models. Jon was an early member of the DMIS National Standards Committee. Since 1995 he has been a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, where he has supervised operation of a high-accuracy CMM facility and conducted research and software development for various applications in dimensional metrology and precision engineering. Jon has been a contributor to the CAM-I DITS project since 1992 and is the author of more than 80 technical publications.

Betsy Blazar
Sr. Manager, Marketing & Membership
American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc.

Kathleen Brockdorf
phoenix|x-ray Systems + Services Inc.

Dr. Rod Casto
University of South Florida / Florida High Tech Corridor Council

Gary Elder
President
Leak Testing Specialists

Douglas Fair
InfinityQS

As Vice President of Statistical Applications at InfinityQS, Mr. Fair helps clients understand statistical methods and implement SPC software in diverse environments and challenging situations. He has co-authored two books on statistical methods: Innovative Control Charting and Quality Management in Health Care.

John Fricot
Sr. District Sales Manager
FLIR Sytems

John Fricot grew up in Rhode Island and is a graduate of Roger Williams College. He has spent the last 30 years in the field of Nondestructive Testing and Infrared Testing. After being a sales consultant for several companies John moved from New England to Florida and is currently the Senior District Sales Manager for FLIR Systems-Thermography Division. FLIR is a world leader in the design and manufacturing of Infrared Cameras.

Stephen Gaiski
Zestar Corporation

Greg Hetland
International Institute of GD&T

Dr. Hetland has 30+ year’s experience in the Aerospace, Defense and Commercial industries with extensive expertise in the mechanical & precision engineering fields as an engineer, consultant, educator, and author. Advanced and specialized expertise in the dimensional tolerancing & physical metrology fields with 30+ years of GD&T training experience.

Dr. Hetland has extensive technical society affiliation and is recognized worldwide as chairman & member of U.S. committees as well as U.S. representative on international standards development in the areas of dimensional tolerancing, physical metrology, statistical tolerancing and uncertainty analysis with emphasis in the sub-micrometer regime.

Dr. Hetland conducts training workshops and consults in the areas of fundamental to advanced mechanical design and dimensional tolerancing principles; physical measurement strategies & solutions down to the sub-micrometer level; and uncertainty analysis.

Dr. Hetland is a recognized leader in the global simplification of GD&T which is proven to aid users in all technical disciplines apply GD&T in a much more efficient and effective manner.

Paul Hogendoorn
OES Inc.

Paul Hogendoorn is President and co-founder of OES Inc, an experienced leader with in-process quality monitoring technologies, celebrating its 28th year of expanding operations in 2008. He is a regular contributor to Manufacturing Automation magazine, and in addition to the Tube & Pipe Journal and Quality Magazine has been published in Australia Manufacturing Technology magazine and Wiring Harness News. OES Inc. develops and deploys many extremely effective “in-process test and monitoring” solutions for a wide range of applications, including wire crimping, tube fabrication, crimp forming, riveting, and other pressing and forming applications.

John Horst
NIST

John Horst works with industry to enable metrology system component interoperability, largely through the development of test suites (consisting of test parts, test cases, and software test utilities) which measure the conformance and interoperability of implementations of an interface standard.

John Horwell
Hexagon Metrology

John Horwell is a Sr. Metrologist for Hexagon Metrology with more than 24 years relative to precision measurement. He is a Mechanical Engineer with more than 39 years experience in Design Engineering. John started with Leitz in 1984.

Lem Hunter
Magnaflux Quasar

Dan Kass
Olympus NDT

Bill Keely
Quanterch / NDT Technologies

Mark Lessard
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Steve Mango
Carestream Health, Inc.

Mike McCurry
Freightliner LLC

Bio Coming Soon

Michael Moist
Testing Machine Sales Manger
GE Inspection Technologies

Michael Moist grew up in Lewistown Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He has spent the last 15 years working in the supply of automated nondestructive testing systems. His experience includes electrical and electronic engineering, project management and product management.  He currently resides in Houston Texas and is employed by GE Inspection Technologies as the Testing Machine Sales Manager covering North America for Ultrasonic and X-ray systems.

Dennis Monroe
Juran Institute, Inc.

Dennis J. Monroe is a Juran Vice President, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and Lean Expert. In this capacity, Mr. Monroe works with companies in business performance assessment, Lean and Six Sigma deployment and training, Value Stream Management, and cost reduction employing a broad variety of management tools including 5S / Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, Program Management, Value Analysis / Value Engineering, and Statistical Process Control.

Prior to joining Juran, Mr. Monroe amassed over 25 years of manufacturing management and consulting experience, including serving as President of Simplified Management Solutions, an independent management consulting firm; Director of Program Management, Group Engineering Director, Marketing Manager and Product Development Manager for Hutchinson Sealing Systems, Inc. (formerly The Kingston-Warren Corp.); and Engineering and Sales Management positions with GenCorp Automotive. In these positions, Mr. Monroe has had responsibility for:

• Consulting and training in diverse industries including defense, electronics, automotive, steel forging, metal fabrication, glass fabrication, telecommunications, bio-pharmaceuticals, healthcare, financial services, food services, travel services, oil and gas, insurance, and apparel manufacturing over the past 15 years.
• Leading Lean Rapid Improvement and DMAIC projects for a major healthcare provider resulting in improved cash flow of over $12 million per year.
• Leading several Lean Blitz projects for a glass manufacturer which resulted in approximately $1 million per month operating income turn-around.
• Management of implementation of the Job Management module of a new enterprise software system from 1998-1999.
• Direction of all Manufacturing Engineering activities for a $150 million automotive division with three manufacturing facilities from 1995-1998.
• Creation and management of tooling and equipment vendor evaluation and certification procedures, tooling and services ordering systems, and other management system tools.
• Management of a special engineering “task force” during the successful launch of two new product lines at a $70 million manufacturing facility from 1995-1997. The launches included Lean Process Design, volume ramp up and sustaining the desired level of performance for delivery and quality.
• Assuring success of multiple product manufacturing launches averaging $25 million in annual sales.
• Implementation of the Six Sigma breakthrough improvement initiative throughout a major automotive supplier.
• Designing and authoring the Program Management system for a major automotive supplier.
• Facilitating 5-6 VA / VE workshops annually from 1996- 2001 with average identified savings opportunities in excess of $1 million annually.
• Managing company wide cost reduction efforts from 1995 through 1998 to reduce total costs by 3% annually.
• Playing a key role in company business expansion from $40million to $120million over three years.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Monroe served as Quality Assurance Supervisor and Tooling Engineer for Teledyne Monarch Rubber and as an Electronics Technician and Data Logging Crew Manager for Piper Well Surveys. In these positions, Mr. Monroe was responsible for supervision of quality engineers and inspectors, design of assembly tooling for automotive parts, trouble shooting and repair of electronic equipment and management of the data logging crew for oil and gas wells. Mr. Monroe has broad international and domestic business experience in a variety of industries.

George Moran
NDTMA

Bio Coming Soon

Edward Morse, Ph.D.
UNC Charlotte
emorse@uncc.edu

Dr. Morse has over 18 years of experience with both coordinate measuring machines and geometric tolerancing.   He first grew interested in tolerancing and metrology while in the master of engineering program at Cornell University in the late 1980's.  After earning his M. Eng., he worked at the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company – first as an applications engineer, and then as a project leader in the advanced systems group, linking industrial shop-floor controls to measuring equipment.

He returned to Cornell to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering.  The focus of his doctoral dissertation was a theoretical investigation of the 'Physics of Mechanical Assembly,' namely – how tolerances can be analyzed to determine if the assembly of in-tolerance components can be guaranteed. 

Since completing his graduate studies in 1999, Dr. Morse has been a member of the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, home of a world-renown graduate program in dimensional metrology.  His research interests include tolerancing for assembly, CMM testing and standards, and the estimation and evaluation of task specific measuring uncertainty.

Dr. Morse holds Senior Level Certification as an ASME Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional (GDTP), and is a member of the ASME Y14 subcommittee 5.1 (Mathematical definition of Y14.5 dimensioning and tolerancing principles).  He serves as a subject matter expert for the United States in ISO Technical Committee 213 for Working Group 10 (Coordinate measuring machines), Working Group 4 (Uncertainty), and Advisory Group 12(Mathematical support group for GPS).

Pat Nugent
Mahr Federal Inc.

Pat Nugent is currently the Vice President of Metrology Systems for Mahr Federal Inc. In his current position he is responsible for the product management, sales, service, and marketing of the Mahr metrology systems throughout North America and is located at the US headquarters of Mahr Federal in Providence, RI.

In addition to his work at Mahr, he is a member of a number of ASME B89 committees working on standards for Form measurement (roundness, cylindricity, straightness, and flatness) as well as committees on the measurement of Internal and External standards (ring gages and plug gages).

Hussein Sadek
President & CEO
Technologies Consulting International (TCI)

Technologies Consulting International, Inc. TCI, Inc. was founded by Hussein. M. Sadek. Mr. Sadek, a graduate Electrical/Electronics Engineer, has more than 30 years of experience in the NDT profession. He is an  ASNT NDT Level III, ACCP Professional Level III and a Certified Thermographer

Hussein Sadek is Past President and Chairman of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing ( ASNT) and an ASNT Fellow. He is currently serving as an ASNT Society Regional Director, a member of the Business/ Finance Committee, Chairman of the Electromagnetic Committee, and a member of the Thermal/ Infrared Committee.  Mr. Sadek is Vice President of the Nondestructive Testing Management Association (NDTMA).

Hussein Sadek has written and published several papers in the field of nondestructive testing and engineering services. He has also presented technical papers and participated in many technical/engineering conferences throughout the United States and countries around the world. Mr. Sadek is the author for ASNT Electromagnetic Testing classroom training book (PTP publication series).

Roy Street
Lockheed Martin

William Verwys
Optical Gaging Products Inc.

Bill Verwys is Applications Engineering Manager at OGP. He has a BSME from SUNY Buffalo. Bill has more than ten years experience in dimensional metrology for manufacturing applications.