Industrial & Manufacturing Consulting
KP Engineering can characterize and trouble-shoot many materials, products, technologies and manufacturing processes in many industries. From heavy industries with large machinery, equipment, facilities or products, to those companies who deal with the small, or microscopic, such as electronics and medical devices, KP can bring experience and value to solving your technical problems. The common, unifying thread between these seemingly disparate industries is that the products, and manufacturing and fabrication technologies/equipment that produce them, are largely born of the same common set of engineering materials, processes and principles. That is, the materials and engineering toolbox are fundamentally the same whether the subject is defects in an optical coating on architectural glass, the corrosive failure of a heat exchanger, the environmentally-induced degradation of a bronze statue, or the fracture of an anchor bolt at the base of a communications tower. These problems are solved with application of the same investigative techniques and engineering & scientific principles.
At KP Engineering the goal is to reduce your technical problem into its simplest, most understandable, form so that the most impactful factors (material, process, design, environment, manner of use, etc.) can be identified, mitigated or isolated.
Discuss your technical issue with a KP Engineering engineer today.
KP Engineering offers broad technical expertise and experience in many areas of product development and manufacturing.
Failure analysis
Metallurgical and materials process trouble shooting
Characterization (chemical, physical, mechanical, hardness)
Materials selection
Coatings (metallic, ceramic, glass, organic, optical)
Statistical process control (Six Sigma)
Engineering Services
Materials & Metallurgical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical manufacturing process analysis
Root-cause Failure analysis
Corrosion Analysis
Reverse engineering
Materials selection
Statistical Methods & Six Sigma
Validation/Qualification Testing
Product testing
Modeling & Simulation
Products & Technologies
Ovens, furnaces, industrial heating equipment
Fuel gas equipment
Separations equipment
Medical devices
Fire sprinkler systems
Plumbing systems
Electronics
Coatings
Fasteners
Bearings
Turbines
Welding, brazing, soldering
Consumer goods & products
Heavy Industry
Structural components
Building materials
Heat resistant materials
Statues, monuments and outdoor art
Common investigations
Lot-to-lot variation
Contamination
Supplier & Sourcing issues
Corrosion
Cracking & Fracture
Overload failures
Fatigue failures
Welding issues
Wear
Material chemical interactions
Adhesion / cohesion issues
Acts of supplier substitution
Hydrogen embrittlement
Stress corrosion cracking (SCC)
Environmental stress cracking (ESC)
Effects of urban or industrial air pollution
Common Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel & other Iron Alloys
Aluminum Alloys
Copper Alloys & Brass
Precious Metals
Metallic Coatings
Powder alloys
Zinc and other Plating & Galvanizing Materials
Engineering Plastics
Paints & Organic Coatings
Glasses
Oxides & Engineering Ceramics
Nickel-base Superalloys
Single Crystal Airfoil Materials
Environmental Coatings
Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBC