Your Process Control Standards Team
Nipendra P. Singh Mr. Nipendra (Nip) Singh has almost 47 years of experience in the high technology aircraft engine components manufacturing business including nearly 17 years with TRW Corporation. Early in his career Mr. Singh managed the design and startup of a new investment casting plant for General Electric Company. Since 1991 Mr. Singh has been the Consulting Partner and CEO of S&A Consulting Group LLP, Cleveland, Ohio. He was educated in India having received a degree in Metallurgy and did post graduate work in business at Case Western Reserve University. His background includes marketing strategies, product engineering, strategic management and new plant construction in aerospace and commercial ventures. He has consulted for over 18 years for multi-national and American companies in the US, Japan, Europe and Asia. Mr. Singh is the longest standing member on the ICI Board of Directors. He is the chairman of the ICI Education Committee and the Process Control Standards Subcommittee. He serves on the Technical Committee and is an ICI Hall of Honor inductee.
Brian Ferg With 45 years’ experience in the investment casting industry, Mr. Ferg has worked in ceramics R&D, core manufacturing, and foundries.
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includes stints at Sherwood Refractories, TRW, PCC, ESCO, and CPP. Mr. Ferg has been active in developing shelling processes and casting processes throughout his career and has been a leader in controlling key variables to reduce scrap and produce commercial, aerospace, and IGT castings for customers including GE, Honeywell, and Pratt & Whitney. Mr. Ferg holds a degree in Ceramic Science from the Pennsylvania State University and is a GE certified Black Belt.
Craig Lanham Mr. Craig Lanham, retiring in 2014 from Ceradyne Inc., a 3M Company, received his BS Degree from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1971. During his career Mr. Lanham spent over 44 years involved in the manufacturing of casting with 38 years of that experience in the Precision Investment Casting Industry.
His experience included a healthy
balance between direct investment casting manufacturing experience and management responsibilities at two investment casting foundries; Northern Precision Castings and Kovatch Castings and experience in the marketing and sales of consumables to Investment Casting Foundries; first with REMET and then Minco / Ceradyne. Over his many years in the industry Mr. Lanham has maintained a long standing and active association with the Investment Casting Institute. In this relationship he was a committee member in the writing of their current WAX GUIDE publication, an instructor for 5 years to the Process Control Course and an author of several technical papers. Mr. Lanham holds the honor of ICI Member Emeritus.
Thad Nykiel Mr. Nykiel is the Process Engineering Manager for Bescast, Inc., where he has spent the last 19 years of his career. A graduate of Cleveland State University, where he was awarded a Foundry Engineering Society Scholarship, Mr. Nykiel has served the investment casting industry for 40 years, working for a number of prestigious manufacturers, including Precision Metalsmiths, Duradyne Technologies and PCC. He has held a number of key positions, including Part and Area Process Engineer, Supervisor of SPC and A.C.E. Supervisor. Mr. Nykiel has also served the industry through volunteerism. For many years served in a variety of roles including Chapter President of the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Metals. He has also presented a number of papers for the FEF and the ICI.
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