Engineering / Manufacturing
Engineers and manufacturing experts for prototype development, pilot plants design and construction, manufacturing processes, machinery and equipment design, construction and use.
Engineering and manufacturing experts are lumped together because their technical disciplines are closely aligned. How do you prototype, build, test and commercially manufacture something? These experts are needed in all manufacturing processes. From a bio pharmaceutical to robots; from chemical process design to semiconductor manufacturing; and, for improved food processing machine to de-water product with lower energy costs and less product damage.
Engineering practice areas are vast and very specialized. In many areas CECON has just the manufacturing expert you need. In other cases, our expert staff will network with the technical consulting community to allow us to quickly locate the expert that is right on your target.
Forensic Engineering
Forensics Engineering is the investigation of why bad things happen around us; e.g., fires, auto accidents, machinery breakdowns, protective equipment failures, etc. CECON forensic experts have investigated many breakdown cases. Here are a few examples:
- A motorcyclist's helmet split open in a crash. Lab tests, as supervised by CECON, examined the crack and our expert found a non uniform mixing of the plastic and filler.
- A skylight in a mall fell after shattering. CECON's glass expert demonstrated that the glass was of the type used in auto windshields. Its shattering into small pieces would not have caused the alleged injury from a big chunk hitting the victim.
- An emergency stop switch intended to stop a conveyor allegedly was not installed. It would have prevented an injury by the machinery. CECON's electrical engineer found bite marks on the conveyor. The marks indicated that the switch had been installed but had been removed.
- A person ingested a sharp object in a restaurant. CECON's packaging machinery expert determined the object was a piece of a cutoff knife from a food conveyor.
- A roofing contractor scam on an elderly lady was uncovered by a CECON roofing expert. The fly-by-night contractor had merely applied a cheap paint, not a roof sealer.
- CECON's nationally recognized expert in protective clothing reviewed a case in which two firemen died. Allegedly the SCAB face masks used in the fire were defective. The expert found possible causes of their failure.
- A car smashed into the barrels at a highway off ramp spilling antifreeze on the highway. The next day a car skidded and crashed on the still wet road. CECON's auto safety expert conducted friction tests on antifreeze soaked macadam in defense of the tire company. He found that the tires alone were not to blame.