About
About Ed Hare and the experience behind SEM Lab
SEM Lab’s consulting model is built on long-range experience across manufacturing, engineering, failure analysis, materials, and field-return problem solving.
Ed Hare has spent the last 30 years working side-by-side with engineering and product teams from a truly diverse set of organizations. Here's how the numbers look:
| Industry | Partners |
|---|---|
| Aerospace & Defense | 62 |
| Automotive & Transportation | 36 |
| Medical Devices / Healthcare | 79 |
| Electronics / Semiconductor & Hardware | 147 |
| Energy & Utilities | 18 |
| Manufacturing & Industrial Equipment | 135 |
| Software / IT Services | 68 |
These partners span the entire product-development lifecycle, from early concept, through prototyping and testing, to scale-up and commercial launch.
If you're an engineer or manager looking for a practical, hands-on consultant who truly speaks your language, let's connect.
Coverage
Full-lifecycle hardware perspective
Ed Hare brings unusually broad consulting coverage across the full lifecycle of electronic hardware, from materials selection through manufacturing, reliability, and field-failure resolution.
His experience spans major component classes including passives, semiconductors, magnetics, interconnects, and protection devices, along with the materials systems that govern their behavior, such as solders, platings, ceramics, polymers, and specialty alloys.
Core strengths
Applied engineering support across recurring technical problems
- Manufacturing process challenges including soldering, assembly defects, and contamination control
- Reliability risks tied to thermal, mechanical, and environmental stress
- Failure analysis involving corrosion, fatigue, fracture, delamination, electrical overstress, and latent defects
- Interpretation of physical evidence using SEM/EDS, cross-sectioning, and spectroscopy
Use This Experience
Bring in SEM Lab when the evidence is complex and the decision matters.
The consulting format is intentionally focused, but the underlying experience is broad. That combination is what allows SEM Lab to stay selective while still being valuable in difficult cases.