Metallurgical Associates provides expert failure analysis, manufacturing process problem solving, and materials testing. Our professional engineers bring knowledge, experience, and commitment to analyzing and preventing product failures, improving manufacturing processes, and evaluating materials.
Material Testing and Failure Analysis Experts
Our “product” is your company’s enhanced quality and increased profitability.
At Metallurgical Associates we work closely with our clients to provide practical cost effective solutions to their unique failure analysis and manufacturing process challenges. We understand manufacturing and the factors that can affect products in service applications. MAI engineers covey this experience, verified by accurate testing and analysis, to provide our clients with the knowledge they need to prevent failures and produce the best products from the best materials at the lowest cost.
MAI provides immediate response to manufacturing interruptions when parts fail to meet specification or manufacturing processes fail to perform as intended. Our analyses quickly identify to root cause of the process failure and get you back in production.
Material analyses are not routine at MAI. Chemical, hardness and mechanical property testing is performed to recognized industry standards and with an eye on your specific application to identify improvements in both performance and cost savings. These advantages can often be found even in materials that meet specification.
Metallurgical Associates engineers are available to discuss and quote on your project requirements, update you on work in progress, and review completed analysis reports. MAI is accredited to ISO 17025 by A2LA providing international recognition of our test results and analyses.



