Aerospace Brazing, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Simsbury Inn
397 Hopmeadow Street, Simsbury, CT
Speaker: Dan Kay (BMetEng, MBA) of Kay and Associates
This is a photo of Presenter Dan Kay and Connecticut Chairman John Jones
The presentation will briefly explore how brazing has mushroomed in the years that followed, how it is used extensively in both military and commercial aircraft as well as in the production of rockets and manned space-flight capsules. These brief looks will also highlight developments in brazing technology over the years, leading to today’s state-of-the art furnaces, fixture-materials, and techniques that will open new doors to tomorrow’s brazing technologies.
It is rare that we can get an internationally recognized speaker like Dan Kay. Our speaker is world renown as an expert in the field of brazing. He is active in AWS committee work on the subject of brazing. Dan Kay (BMetEng, MBA) has operated his own brazing consulting practice for 25-years. His has been involved in brazing for 50-years, teaching brazing courses throughout that entire time period. He received his Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his MBA from Michigan State University. He spent 30-years in corporate America in a variety of metallurgical, production and management positions before setting up his own brazing consulting/training business in 1996. In his career Dan has worked closely with furnace brazing operations around the world, both atmosphere and vacuum furnaces. He is also widely published both in technical journals and in several online blog-sites. Whatever method of brazing you are using (torch, induction, resistance, or furnace), you will find that Dan will provide much valuable information that you will be able to quickly apply in your operations to increase productivity