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©2007 Ruth Consulting, LLC
Ruth Consulting, LLC. |
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Unique Qualifications: Ruth Consulting can assist in any automotive restraints related areas including safety belts, safety belt pretensioners, frontal airbags, side impact airbags and curtains, safety canopy for rollover, and other pyrotechnic restraint system controlled safety devices. However, Richard is uniquely qualified in Event Data Recorders and airbag system performance including deployment thresholds. Unique qualifications in Event Data Recorders include serving on Ford's Event Data Recorder Policy Committee, being part of the Ford and Auto Alliance team responding to NHTSA's Part 563 rule, being Ford's primary interface with the Vetronix Corp who makes the equipment to read EDR's, serving as Ford's representative on tech SAE J1698 committee that developed a common EDR output format, serving on the ASTM forensic sciences committee developing EDR readout procedures, and presenting on EDR's at the 2004 SAE toptec on EDR's at the NTSB training academy. Richard Ruth is a certified Vetronix CDR system operator and analyst, and is working towards becoming a certified Vetronix trainer. He personally helped debug many of the new releases from Ford to Vetronix to assure data integrity. His work on industry committees and with Vetronix and suppliers that service other manufacturers give him unique insight in to the current state of the industry. |
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Richard R. Ruth, P.E. recently retired from Ford Motor Company after 33 years in a wide variety of product engineering and product planning positions, spending the last 10 years managing Ford Design Analysis Engineers that provide technical analysis to Ford's Office of the General Counsel in product liability lawsuits and Ford Product Development in field investigations. As a "working manager", he has personally handled many restraints related internal Ford field investigations, gathered appropriate technical documents for discovery, given corporate and expert depositions and trial testimony, and provided technical assistance to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), NTSB, NICB, law enforcement and third party inquiries. Put Richard Ruth's insider's knowledge and perspective to work for you. |
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