Plastex Consulting Group
Contact: Clinton Cowen
770 Main Street
West Warwick, Rhode Island 02893
U.S.
Phone: 866-828-0820
Fax: 401-828-0840
Product Liability, Failure Analysis, Injury
Plastex Consulting Group, is a multidiscipline Plastics Consulting and Expert resource structured to serve the most challenging needs of todays fast pace environment by providing the right expert each time. Our group of experts is uniquely qualified to serve every need in all areas related to Product liability, personal or industrial injury, and product failure and patent disputes. Two principals are highly educated, degreed Plastics engineers with over 50 years of combined practical experience, have authored books on Plastics Testing, failure analysis and identification.
Services
Failure Analysis, Testing, Personal Injury, Materials, Molding, Product Design, Tooling, Product Liability, Patent Infringement.
Why is our expert opinion better? Experience, knowledge and education, coupled with our ability to deliver a conclusive expert report, comprehensible by both the expert and layman alike take us to a higher level. We feel comfortable speaking about plastics, we know how to read our audience and we can adjust our technical level to the appropriate level.
Profile
Plastex group provides technical and expert plastic consulting services to a leading corporations and law firms located throughout the Americas and Western Europe. We are highly experienced in today's plastics technologies and strive to develop techniques that will be used tomorrow.
Our plastic expertise and experience
If it's made from plastics, we are experienced with the process used to make it. Our team has the practical hands-on experience that allows us to move throughout a project from beginning to end or anywhere in-between. Commodity resins to engineered blends, turnkey injection molding facilities to part design and employee training, we have the tools to you need to make it happen.
Plastic processing and equipment proficiency
The array of processes associated with injection molding such as thermoplastic, thermoset, liquid (LIM), metal (MIM), gas assist, etc. are all unique in their own right. Plastex has experience processing and troubleshooting the tooling and injection molding equipment that is used in each of these processes. We can even calibrate and certify your injection molding equipment.
Professional Experience
VISHU SHAH
CONSULTEK, Brea, Ca 1998 to present
Consultant/Expert
Performance Engineered Products, Inc. Pomona, Ca 1981 to 1998
President/Cofounder
Started Custom Injection Molding business in 1981 and expanded to 27 machines, $ 8 million in revenue. Responsible for running the entire manufacturing operation with 105 employees.
Rain Bird Corporation Glendora, Ca 1978 to 1981
Senior Plastics Engineer: Responsible for directing major cost reduction and product improvement projects.
Nibco Inc. Elkhart, In 1973 to 1978
Plastics Engineer
CLINTON COWEN
CPC Plastics - Providence, RI 1998-Present
President - Provide technical consulting, expert witness and engineering services to a variety of industries related to the plastics and metal industries throughout the Americas. As President, I am currently responsible for overseeing injection molding operations at our West Warwick, RI facility.
Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering Co. Chicago, IL 1994-1998
Technical Service Engineer (1994-1996) - Provided onsite technical engineering services including start-up, training, troubleshooting and the repair of plastics injection, liquid injection and metal injection molding machinery for North America, Canada and Mexico.
Legal Experience
Expert witness and consulting services in a product liability case involving Plastics fuel rail in automotive application. Siemens vs. Menasha Corporation
Ref: Jones Day, Washington, D.C.
Expert witness and consulting in a trial, US Government vs. Vargas involving import of Polyethylene pipe from Mexico along with narcotics. Testified on behalf of US Government.
Expert witness and consulting service in a product liability case relating to the personal injury resulting from product failure.
Expert witness and consulting service in product liability case involving massive product Failure of trash containers. Otto Industries Vs. Sanitary services.
Ref: Foley Freeman, Barton & Stern, Meridian, Idaho
Provided consulting and expert witness services in civil litigation relating to the defendants liability in a case concerning loss of sales due to defendants inability to provide timely service.
Ref: Whitney Stein, Troop, Steuber, Pasich, & Tobey, Los Angeles, CA
Provided consulting services to a law firm in a product liability case involving personal injury resulting from a substandard swimming pool skimmer cover.
Ref: Doug Stein, Law offices of Doug Stein, Sacramento, CA.
Affiliations
Society of Plastics Engineers, Senior Member. Society of Plastics Industry, Professional Member, Board Member of SPI Western Moldmakers Division.
Past President of Northern Indiana SPE chapter.
Served as publications chairman, and Board member of So. Cal. SPE chapter.
Board Member SPE Southern California Chapter.
Qualifications
Failure Analysis/ Expert witness
Reliability Assessment
Overall Plastics Manufacturing Operations Management
Business evaluation, study, analyze, recommend and implement
Design and Setup manufacturing facilities
Product and Tooling Design and Development
Project Management, Material contract negotiations
Material Selection and Specifications
Quality Assurance, Testing, SPC/SQC, ISO 9000
Research and literature surveys
Publications
Vishu H. Shah, "Handbook of Plastics Testing Technology" Second edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998
Contributing Author, "Handbook of Material Selection" John Wiley & sons, New York, 2002
Vishu H. Shah, "Plastics Material Selection and Identification Analysis" William Andrew Publishing, New York, available June 2004
Education
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, B.S. in Plastics Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, M.S. in Plastics Engineering
Consulting Practice: All States
Areas of Expertise:
Engineering General
Failure Analysis
Patent
Patent Infringement
Personal Injury
Plastics
Plumbing
Product Design
Products Liability
Workers Compensation
