Engineering Consultants Offer Great Value to Industrial Clients

The engineering consultants of Miami Valley Materials Testing Center (MVMTC) provide industrial clients a complete range of expert service through all phases, from product design and development, to manufacturing and failure analysis.

Engineering consultants at testing laboratories such as MVMTC offer clients a wide range of experience and expertise. Because of this, we prove to be a more cost-effective solution than in-house engineers.

MVMTC’s engineering consultants—with extensive real-world industrial experience—provide manufacturers even greater value as they have at their disposal a comprehensive array of state-of-the-art testing and analysis technologies to maintain quality assurance at every stage. We advise our industrial clients on the most appropriate testing and analytical techniques for each unique circumstance. We provide clients a fast turnaround, with timely testing and actionable reports to help quality managers quickly make necessary production adjustments—allowing them to stay on production schedules and meet customers’ high quality standards.

Our accredited testing facilities include a metallography lab, a chemical analysis spectrometer, a universal testing system for mechanical property evaluation, a cyclic corrosion tester, a scanning electron microscope and a machine shop that allows us to prepare our own test specimens to save time in the material testing process.

Our engineering consultants’ testing and analytical capabilities include hardness testing, failure analysis, tensile testing, mechanical property testing, corrosion testing, OES chemistry analysis, microhardness and macrohardness testing and non-destructive testing (NDT) with methods such as radiography, magnetic particle testing, ultrasonic testing, electromagnetic testing, acoustic emission testing and penetrant testing.

Our industrial clients call on our engineering consultants to provide a wide range of expert advice and services, such as:

• Troubleshoot quality problems
• Help select the most appropriate materials for an application or product
• Test materials for purity, composition and appropriateness for applications
• Analyze welds
• Conduct studies to find the root cause or causes of failures, whether material defects, design deficiencies, corrosion, improper fabrication, poor maintenance or other causes
• Consult in the development of a product to prevent material or product failure
• Foreign material consultation and evaluation
• Manage and conduct non-destructive testing on products
• Study the effect of environmental conditions on a material or product
• Test and study a product to recommend modifications to improve performance and quality and extend life time
• Conduct metallurgical strength testing procedures
• Conduct corrosion testing for product development or conduct corrosion-related investigations
• Advise on heat treatment, including case hardening, hardening and tempering, annealing and stress relieving