MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DMSE Colloquia, Fall 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 10:00 AM | 411 White Building

Timken Steel Group – Differentiation in a Commodity-Oriented Industry

Raymond V. Fryan

General Manager
Process Improvement – Alloy Steel
The Timken Company
Canton, OH 44706-0932
U.S.A.

Abstract:

The global steel industry has followed the cyclical patterns of the general economy. These cycles have challenged the industry to improve, including the specialty and alloy steel long products segment. In this backdrop, The Timken Company’s Alloy Steel group has competed and grown over many economic cycles, and remains the only major bearing producer that also manufactures specialty alloy Steel. The core shared technologies of these two products have shaped the differentiation approach of the Steel group. Differentiation is always defined most clearly from the viewpoint of the customer, and the advancement of valuable knowledge gleaned from Materials Science and Engineering is key to advancing that differentiation. For steel-based materials knowledge advancement, much of the deployment will occur in optimization of performance and economics of current mechanical systems.

Speaker Biography:

• Education:
--- B.S. Metallurgical Engineering, Grove City College – 1982
--- M.S. (1986), Ph.D. (1995), Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
• Work/Professional:
Timken Company, 27 years
• Quality, Process Technology, Manufacturing, General Management
--- American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI), Committee on Manufacturing Technology
--- Association for Iron and Steel Technology
--- ASM International

Coffee and doughnuts will be served from 9:30 AM.

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