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McElrath Company was formed in 1994 by Michael
McElrath, who has been in the foundry industry since
1978. |
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Professional Memberships: |
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Current and
former professional memberships include the AFS, SME
and TCMA. |
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American Foundry Society
- Chapter Memberships -
- Detroit
- Oregon
- Southern California
- Tennessee
- Texas |
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Society Manufacturing Engineers
- Senior Member of Robotics
- Charter Member of Vision Systems |
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Texas Cast Metals Association |
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| SMC
| About |
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| The Company |
| The Stuart
McElrath Company (SMC) is a consulting firm which
provides engineering and web solutions for
fabricators, machine shops, foundries and in the
petrochemical industry. A privately held company
located in Flint Texas, SMC was founded in 1994 by
Michael McElrath after 20 years of working for
various companies in an engineering or sales
capacity. SMC diversified in 2004 to include web and
print solutions with emphasis on the manufacturing
Industry and related fields. |
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Our Goal |
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Provide
Quality Products & Services at Affordable
Pricing |
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Expertise
Michael McElrath is a current or former
member of the American Foundry Society
(AFS), the Texas Cast Metals Association
(TCMA), a Senior Member of the Robotics and
a Charter Member of Vision Systems of the
Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME). With
45 plus years of industrial experience, the
Stuart McElrath Company's principle areas of
expertise can be summarized as follows:
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Our Expertise |
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Dust Collection Design
Equipment & Parts Design
Hopper & Silo Design
Project Engineering & Management
Reverse Engineering
Web & Print Design |
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SMC has
performed numerous projects in North America
including cost studies, project management,
plant renovations and the engineering of
machine parts and equipment. SMC also
provides website design and hosting along
with printed materials design such as
brochures, mailers, and magazine ads. |
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The Owner
Michael S McElrath is a member of the
American Foundry Society, the Texas Cast
Metals Association, a Senior member of the
Robotics and a Charter Member of Vision
Systems of the Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
Michael S McElrath joined the foundry
industry in February of 1978 as a Corporate
Project Engineer for Kast Metals Corporation
of Shreveport LA. as a Senior Corporate
Project Engineer duties included involvement
with many nobake projects both in
Shreveport, La and Keokuk, IA.
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Our Past |
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Architectural
Draftsman/Detailer
Corporate Project Engineer
Glass Mold Designer
Manager of Engineering and
Manufacturing
Manager of Plant Engineering
Project Engineer
Sales Engineer
Sales Manager
Senior Project Engineer |
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In
1980, Michael S McElrath joined Dependable
Fordath (now Dependable Foundry Equipment
Company/Redford Carver Foundry Products
Company) and held positions of Project
Engineer, Sales Engineer, Manager of Plant
Engineering, Sales Manager, and Manager of
Engineering and Manufacturing. Duties
included equipment sales,
equipment/facilities layouts, product
development and evaluation, field equipment
service, supervision of large turnkey
projects and supervision of the engineering
department including manufacturing.
In 1991, Michael S McElrath joined Harry H.
Kessler & Associates as a Sr. Project
Engineer working on feasibility studies,
cost reduction surveys, plant layouts,
equipment and site selection and detail
engineering. |
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