Chief Content Officer, 4M Partners, LLC
President and Chief Executive Officer, Engineering Quality Solutions, Inc.
Phone: +1 (248) 66-STEEL [(248) 667-8335]
ds@EQSgroup.com or Danny@Learning4M.com
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/schaeffler
Danny Schaeffler is co-founder of 4M Partners, LLC and founder and
President of Engineering Quality Solutions (EQS). EQS is consulting firm
which provides product applications assistance to materials and
manufacturing companies. Danny has worked with automotive and
non-automotive OEMs and their Tier One/Two/ Three suppliers, as well as
steel and aluminum producers and their service centers focusing on
materials selection/optimization, tooling buyoff, field formability
analyses, manufacturing process improvement, and cost savings /
avoidance projects.
Danny spent 10 years at LTV Steel Company in customer-focused
technical positions of increasing responsibility. At the time LTV Steel
folded, Danny was the Automotive Product Applications Group Manager. He
and his team focused on formability analysis and training; materials
selection and optimization; tooling development and production launches
for new vehicle programs; customer materials & manufacturing cost
reduction efforts; forming/denting/structural computer simulation; and
technical awareness and communications with the automotive manufacturers
and their Tier One / Tier Two companies.
Danny wrote two chapters in ASM Handbook, Volume 14B, Metalworking:
Sheet Forming, published by ASM International in 2006. He has made
several presentations at the Stamping Journal Forum, FABTECH, and
MetalForm Conferences, and has published several articles in Stamping
Journal and The Fabricator. With 4M, he coordinated and taught several
sheet formability programs at Oakland University (Michigan), and wrote
and published Sheet Metal Forming - Engineering and Business Management.
He was a founding contributor to Tool & Die Authority, published
monthly by the Precision Metalforming Association from 2008 to 2010.
Danny is a member of SAE International (serving on the Steel Sheet &
Strip Specifications Committee), and is Past President of the North
American Deep Drawing Research Group.
Danny received his Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science
and Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and a
Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Materials
Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. While at Drexel,
Danny held engineering and research positions with the David Taylor
Research Center (Annapolis, MD) and Hoeganaes Corporation (Riverton,
NJ).
