Richard Dickinson, Ph.D., Lead Consultant

Richard Dickinson, Ph.D., joined our team in January 2006. He is a professional chemist with over 35 years of experience in academics, aerospace, commercial, electronics, and automotive industries.

His background in product and process development has involved product development, formulation of viscoelastic coatings and adhesives, property optimization, and manufacturing processing of materials to be converted into engineering components. Finished products include metal-to-metal laminates and coated metal substrates for noise and vibration control applications including computer disc drives, vehicle brake shims, wheel wells, and dash panels, as well as film-to-metal laminates for reflectors and decorative finishes.

Richard has been a process engineering manager responsible for bringing a materials-oriented approach to optimizing processing parameters to gain continuous product and process improvements, variability reduction, and manufacturing cost reductions.

In variability reduction, he has had considerable experience in identifying the material and processing conditions that may have an effect on the performance of a material or engineering component. He has published two significant papers that are tutorials on continuous improvements using FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) as the tool.

Additionally, some specific areas of Richard’s expertise include adhesive bonding of dissimilar materials in miniature electronic devices, process technology transfer and scale-up, validation of alternate materials and processes, materials and process specifications for suppliers, and many more.

Richard can be contacted at 317-536-7030, or via email at RichardD@KevinKennedyAssociates.com.

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Articles by Richard:
Variability Reduction in Functional, Multi-layer Materials and Laminates

Destructive Effects of Specifying the Wrong Brass Alloy for Residential Plumbing FittingsRichard