Michael D. Holloway is the President of 5th Order Industry,which provides training, failure analysis, and designed experiments. He has 40 years' experience in industry, starting with research and product development for Olin Chemical and WR Grace, Rohm & Haas, GE Plastics, and reliability engineering and analysis for NCH, ALS, and SGS. He is a subject matter expert in failure analysis, reliability engineering, and designed experiments for science and engineering, and holds 16 professional certifications, a patent, an MS in polymer engineering, a BS in chemistry, a BA in philosophy. He has authored 12 books, contributed to several others, and been cited in over 1000 manuscripts and several hundred master's theses and doctoral dissertations.