Heat Treat Today’s Meet the Consultants: John Young

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Heat Treat Today recently unveiled its Heat Treat Consultants page in the October 2018 print edition (available in digital format here) and at FNA in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer this comprehensive listing of heat treat industry consultants as part of our efforts to help minimize the effects of heat treat “brain drain.” With so many heat treat brains growing older, the expertise that once used to reside inside of manufacturing operations is dwindling. Where, then, do manufacturers with in-house heat treat departments go when they need heat treat answers?

Turn to Heat Treat Today and our comprehensive list of heat treat industry consultants, which we will introduce to you one by one in this occasional feature, “Meet the Consultants”. There is no more comprehensive list of heat treat consultants. Learn more about John Young of Young Metallurgical Consulting, and then click through to the page to read more details about each consultant. We are adding more regularly. Contact them directly, or call us and we’ll introduce you to them. Whether it’s a technical process question, a safety concern, a compliance issue, or a business related question, one of our heat treat consultants will be able to help. If you are a consultant and would like to be listed, please contact Doug Glenn. 

Name: John Young
Company Name: Young Metallurgical Consulting
Location: West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA
Years In Industry: 30+
Consulting Specialties:

  • Metallurgy, Heat Treating
  • Sample Preparation & Hardness Testing
  • Training, Inspection, Quality Control
  • Leadership & Management

Send an email | Website | Phone: 724-923-8089

Briefly:

John Young says he “was born in a heat treat. My dad was a heat treater, and I would go to the plant on weekends with him when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I  would spend a lot of time raising and lowering the lid on a homo carb and thinking it was great fun. During the summer, I was a maintenance helper in the plant and got all of the dirty cleanup duties.” In 2016, after over thirty years experience in various roles throughout the heat treat industry, John Young launched Young Metallurgical Consulting, which works with in-house heat treat departments to teach the day-to-day processes necessary to manage and improve their area of operation. His purpose is to answer the question, “Now that I have a heat treat furnace, what am I supposed to do with it?” This includes providing training workshops to the new-to-the-industry heat treating employee as well as going beyond the classroom with instruction which he presents as an adjunct professor of metallurgical engineering at Macomb Community College and which he shares with experienced employees in the field. His career has included multiple opportunities to lead and inspire employees toward quality work and service to the customer.

Publications or Significant Accomplishments:

  1. Received B.S Metallurgical Engineering, Michigan Tech University.
  2. Received Master of Business Administration, Michigan State University
  3. Began career as a blast furnace engineer, worked as a quality manager responsible for quality function at a company with 45 heat treat staff, training furnace operators in basic metallurgy and inspection techniques. Became familiar with auto, heavy equipment and auto industries utilizing batch, continuous belt, and shaker hearth furnaces.
  4. Worked in the family heat treat business as Quality Manager and Plant Manager until father died and business was sold.
  5. President of a 25-person heat treat company with complete authority and responsibility. Provided neutral hardening, carbonitriding and deep case carburizing to auto, heavy truck and railroad industries.
  6. Vice-president/general manager at a 50-person operation utilizing four continuous belt furnaces processing 50 MM lb/yr of threaded fasteners to the auto industry. Approved source for induction hardening Taptite fasteners.
  7. Commission sales representative of heat treats, platers, and other secondary sources in maintaining and increasing sales volume.
  8. General manager, directing 25-person operation utilizing rotary retort, continuous belt, and atmosphere annealing furnaces.  Major heat treat source for Tier 1 supplier shipping to worldwide facilities of Big 3 auto manufacturer.
  9. Contributor, Advanced Materials and Processes, Vol. 158, ASM International, 2000
  10. Adjunct Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at Macomb Community College
  11. Founder of Young Metallurgical Consulting, 2016.

Links to Heat Treat Today or Other Online Resources

References available upon request from the Consultant

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