W. Daniel Kay 4 Lawton Drive Simsbury, Connecticut, USA 06070-2706 Phone: (860) 651-5595 Fax: (860) 651-1919

Dan has an extensive background in brazing engineering, with more than 35-years of hands-on experience in that field. As a respected expert in brazing, Dan has become known worldwide as an excellent seminar leader, trainer and speaker.

He was presented with the Materials Engineering Institute Instructor of Merit Award by ASM International for "..excellence in technical expertise, presentation skills, and quality support materials..".

He has also published many articles on brazing in leading journals in the brazing/welding/heat-treating field. A few of the more recent ones are: "Liquation of Brazing Filler Metals -- Good or Bad?" in the November, 2009 issue of Industrial Heating magazine; "Controlling Suppliers and Customers: Key to Successful In-House Brazing?" in the November 2004 issue of Industrial Heating magazine; "Honeycomb-Brazing Essentials for Successful Use As Turbine Seals" in the November 2003 issue of Industrial Heating magazine, and an article entitled "Fillets in Brazing: Good or Bad?" in the October 2003 issue of The Welding Journal, published by AWS. He was also responsible for the revised chapter on honeycomb brazing (Chapter 34 in the recently published fifth edition of the AWS Brazing Handbook), wrote the section entitled "Diffusion Brazing" for the ASM Handbook(Vol. 6), and was a brazing reviewer for Vol.4 ("Metals and Their Weldability") of the AWS Welding Handbook. He was editor-in-chief ofThe Nicrobraz News, a technical brazing newsletter, which he authored at Wall Colmonoy Corporation.

Dan has run his own brazing consulting and training business since 1996.

Background and Capabilities:

Brazing Training -- Dan has conducted intensive brazing-engineering training seminars for more than 35-years, and continues to do so. These brazing training seminars (varying in length from 1-day to 5-days) are taught each year around the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and several Pacific-basin countries, consisting of regionalized general brazing seminars, as well as intensive in-house specialized training seminars for individual companies based on their particular needs. In the past Dan conducted semi-annual 3-day furnace brazing seminars in the Detroit area for Wall Colmonoy for many years alongside of Robert Peaslee. Dan also taught an ASM Brazing Fundamentals course in Materials Park, Ohio for several years. Prior to that, he taught 3-day torch-brazing seminars several times each year for more than 7-years while at Handy & Harman.

Consultant -- Dan visits many companies each year, reviewing and auditing their brazing operations so as to help them define and implement solutions to their brazing and metals-joining problems.

Communicator -- Dan speaks several times each year before trade, civic, and church groups, meetings ranging in size up to several thousand people.

Trade Shows -- He has participated in many shows around the world during last 35 years, as a technical speaker, as technical-session chair, as host at hospitality suites, and working in booths on the trade show floor.

Brief Brazing Career Chronology:

Kay & Associates, Simsbury, CT. (1996 -- present)
(Leading independent US supplier of non-biased brazing training programs, audits, and brazing problem solving)

-- Dan continues to be the leading, independent onsultant/trainer to the brazing industry on all aspects of brazing engineering, business development, strategic planning, and development of in-house technical expertise for brazing problem solving and problem prevention. Dan's training programs vary from hands-on training in torch and furnace brazing to large brazing forums at hotels around the world.

Wall Colmonoy Corporation (WCC), Madison Heights, MI. (l980--1995)
(Manufacturer of nickel-alloy powders for furnace brazing and thermal-spray, and a high temperature heat treat and brazing processor of metal parts)

-- While at WCC, Dan held various operating positions, including: Asst. Vice President of Manufacturing (he was responsible for overall operations at all five of WCC's Nicrobraz-Division processing plants); Plant General Manager, Detroit Processing Plant (this plant manufactured all the company's brazing products, and also had numerous vacuum and atmosphere furnaces for commercial brazing and heat-treating operations); Brazing Products Sales Manager (world-wide); and also was the Director of the Brazing Engineering Center (WCC's Detroit-based R&D center for development of brazing products and applications for same).

Handy & Harman, New York, N.Y. (l974--l980)
(Leading manufacturer, supplier, and refiner of precious metal alloys)

-- Brazing Products Engineer. Dan was the head brazing engineer on corporate engineering staff involved in customer liaison, brazing-training, new product development, and the marketing and advertising for the brazing product line. Also responsible for trade show development, salesmen training, and problem solving for customers.

Education:

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Michigan State University, Management Education Center, Troy, MI

Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering (B. Met. Eng)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

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