MIT Industrial Liaison Program consulting practice (1980s)

Tom's recurring framing for how the Farberware and other member-company consults reached him. "I did a lot of failure analysis — three or four companies a week coming in." Likely recurs across the corpus as the institutional setting for many of Tom's case stories; promoting to canonical case status pending cross-reference. ## Figures referenced (not cases)

Another story on stainless steel. [Tom produces a Farberware pot.] This is probably twenty years old. Farberware came to me through the MIT Industrial Liaison Program. They're members and they can get free consulting. They paid back then about an hour of the faculty member's time. In the 1980s I got more ILP consulting than any other faculty member at MIT. I did a lot of failure analysis — I used to have three or four companies a week coming in. They tell me their problem and I shoot them an answer just like that.