Technical Consulting and Forensics Engineering
Engineering Expertise, Compliance, and Technical Advisory Services
Product liability cases demand clear, defensible technical analysis—not just opinions. MDR Engineering provides licensed engineering support focused on understanding how products are designed, built, and intended to function, and how those factors relate to safety, performance, and applicable standards. This service is tailored for attorneys, insurers, and product developers who need rigorous, unbiased engineering insight when the stakes are high.
Product liability consulting services
MDR Engineering offers structured, analysis‑driven support across a range of product liability and safety questions, including:
Design evaluation: Review of mechanical and electromechanical designs to assess whether geometry, materials, controls, and protective features align with intended use and foreseeable misuse.
Failure analysis: Engineering assessment of component and system failures, including likely causes, contributing conditions, and whether design, manufacturing, or usage factors are most relevant.
Standards and code adherence: Evaluation of products and documentation against relevant engineering standards and codes, with clear explanations of where designs align or deviate.
Risk and safety assessment: Review of safety functions, protective devices, warnings, and interlocks relative to known hazards and applicable requirements.
Documentation and drawing review: Analysis of engineering drawings, calculations, and specifications to understand design intent, assumptions, and design margins.
Technical communication support: Preparation of clear, technical summaries and visuals that help non‑engineers understand complex engineering issues.
Support can be provided at early case assessment, during discovery, or in preparation for mediation, settlement, or trial.
Experience with critical standards and codes
MDR Engineering brings practical experience applying and interpreting key standards and codes that frequently arise in product safety and liability matters, including:
PED (Pressure Equipment Directive): Expertise: Pressure‑bearing components, assemblies, and related safety considerations for equipment falling under European pressure regulations. Support areas: Design margins, pressure ratings, materials selection, protective devices, documentation, and conformity with relevant categories and modules.
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code: Expertise: Pressure vessels, boilers, and related welded and fabricated components. Support areas: Design assumptions, allowable stresses, joint configurations, inspection considerations, and how code requirements relate to alleged failures or hazards.
MIL‑STD (Military standards): Expertise: Ruggedization, environmental conditions, reliability expectations, and performance requirements for military and high‑reliability equipment. Support areas: Evaluating whether designs reasonably account for specified environments (shock, vibration, temperature, etc.) and reviewing qualification or verification approaches.
IEC 61010 (Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, control, and laboratory use): Expertise: Safety of laboratory and industrial electrical equipment, including protective measures, clearances/creepage, insulation, and fault conditions. Support areas: Assessing whether product design, labeling, and protective circuits align with the intent of IEC 61010 and related safety expectations for users.
OSHA & NIOSH Safety and Ergonomics Evaluation: Expertise: Evaluation and interpretation of OSHA safety expectations and NIOSH ergonomic guidelines, with a focus on lifting tasks, material‑handling equipment, and workplace design. Support areas: Evaluation of workplace ergonomics and material-handling equipment. Identification of feasible engineering controls or safer design alternatives.
MDR Engineering can help connect the technical details of these standards to the practical questions at the heart of a liability case: what was reasonable, what was required, and what likely contributed to the event in question.