Customized Metallurgy Training

Metallurgy Matrix Engineering Consultants can provide comprehensive metallurgy training tailored for engineers, designers, and technicians working with metal components in demanding applications. Our expert-led courses cover fundamental and advanced topics, including material selection, heat treatment, failure analysis, and metallurgical testing techniques.
By investing in metallurgy training, your employees will gain a deeper understanding of material behavior, enabling them to improve product reliability, enhance manufacturing processes, and reduce costly failures. Our courses can be customized to address your industry’s unique challenges, ensuring practical knowledge that can be applied immediately. Whether at your facility or ours, our hands-on training empowers your team with the expertise needed to make informed engineering decisions and optimize material performance. The typical course is usually one to two days in duration, based on the selected course content. Class size usually ranges from 10-20 students.
Course Instructor

Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E.
Metallurgical Engineering Consultant, Failure Analysis Expert, Metallurgy TrainerMichael Pfeifer is President of Industrial Metallurgists, a leading engineering consultancy that specializes in metallurgical engineering solutions for manufacturers, product designers, and legal teams.
With over 30 years of hands-on experience, Michael has been helping clients world-wide with design and manufacturing decisions and problems, as a failure analysis expert, and as a metallurgy expert witness for forensic engineering investigations. You can count on getting the support and guidance needed to make well-informed decisions.
Michael has worked on every aspect of product development and manufacturing. A metallurgy background coupled with extensive design and manufacturing experience enables him to quickly understand you situation, work with you to make a plan, help you get the information you need, and help you us the information to get to the best outcome.
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