Dan McKeeman is our Tech Services and Made-to-Print manager. He has 31 years of experience in fastener and manufacturing problem solving.

Specialties:

• Application engineering
• Product/fastener design support
• Made-to-print parts
• Automated assembly systems
• Technical training seminars
• In-place cost reduction

Mr. Archer is President and founder of Archetype Joint LLC, a company devoted exclusively to joint design, testing and validation. To support this capability Archetype Joint maintains an A2LA accredited test lab.

Customers include automotive, heavy vehicles, defense, aerospace, industrial equipment and recreational products.

Specialties:

• Torque/Tension, Torque/Angle and other joint tests performed for joint validation and problem-solving
• Establishing and reviewing target torque and tightening strategy
• Evaluating joints through both analytical and test methods
• Product cost reduction and quality enhancement

Mr. Blendulf has 41 years of fastener experience both as a mechanical engineer in private industry and later as a university educator. He’s a well-known author of numerous technical articles in fastener related publications.

Specialties:

• Professional educator with an emphasis on instructing design engineers and non-technical fastener professionals
• Fastener/fastening specialist
• Seminar leader, both public and in-house
• SI metric transition

Mr. Doppke is founder and president of Technical Presentations Company -- a fastener consultant, education and litigation company. He has over 47 years of “in depth” experience in the fastener industry. He retired from one of the Big Three automobile companies in 1999.

Specialties:

• Expert witness in fastener related litigation
• General industrial
• Ground vehicle
• Applications engineering
• Research and practical application
• Training

Joe Greenslade is the Director of Engineering Technology for the Industrial Fasteners Institute (IFI). Joe has been in the fastener industry since 1970 serving in many technical and management capacities.He has written over 300 articles on fastener related subjects. He serves on the fastener committees for IFI, ASME, ASTM, SAE, and ISO.

Specialties:

• Fastener failure review
• Fastener standards interpretations
• Fastener evaluation practices

In 1995, Mr. DeHaitre founded DeHaitre & Associates, Inc., a consulting service for industrial OEM’s and the hardware trade. He has over 38 years of fastener experience.

Specialties:

• Lock nuts
• Sealing nuts
• Cold-headed specials
• Automatic screw machine work
• Captive fasteners
• Miniature screws
• Design
• Application
• Troubleshooting
• Training: Product Clinics, Outside Sales, Customer Service
• Sales
• Sales Management

With over 40 years in the fastener industry, Mr. McGuire’s multifaceted background includes ownership of a fastener distributorship for 19 years, author of seven books, publisher of two fastener magazines, producer of trade shows, and developer of six fastener-related websites.

Specialties:

• Fastener Manufacturers/Suppliers
• Fastener Marketing/Sales
• Expert witness
• New product development
• Trade Name/Trademarks

Mr. Pierce is founder and president of Common Sense Fastener Technology, Inc. He initially started as a consulting service to users of small self-tapping screws, but now works with all sizes of bolts and screws. He also has a limited testing facility.

Specialties:

• Threadformers
• Small fasteners
• Rivets
• EMF and fluid leaks
• Fastener application problem solving
• Fastener testing
• Fastener seminars/training
• Component standardization

As head of L. Raymond and Associates, Dr. Raymond is a consultant to manufacturers, distributors and users. He has a fully equipped laboratory with advanced equipment for testing and evaluation. His focus is on applied research in metallurgy and structural mechanics in support of fastener system design and analysis.

Specialties:

• Failure/Life analysis
• Hydrogen embrittlement
• Materials Evaluation
• Platings/Coatings
• Environmental Effects

A pioneer in the development of hardware and instruments for test measurement and control of the threaded fastener tightening process, Mr. Shoberg is also an author and co-producer of bolt joint analysis software. He’s founder of RS Technologies, Ltd. a fastener-testing laboratory (ISO 17025) as well as an A2LA Accredited Calibration Laboratory (ISO 17025) for torque, force and instrument calibration. He has over 35 years of fastener experience.

Specialties:

• Test Lab
• Torque and tension control/testing
• Research

Jim Speck is Regional Sales Engineer for Johnson Gage Company in Bloomfield, CT, which supplies thread gages, engineering consulting, and thread inspection services.

Customers include aerospace, automotive, petro-chemical, and medical companies and the government.  

Specialties:

• Screw thread applications, troubleshooting, inspection
• Engineering liaison
• Assembly applications
• Thread forensics
• Technical training