During her 28 years with 3M, Sally’s been able to pursue her deep curiosity about how things work, what makes them break, and how to improve product reliability through design and training. Sally brings a unique, real-world perspective to her work as an Applications Engineering Specialist.
To understand her breadth of knowledge and experience, you probably need to know that she began her 3M career on the Product Development side of the business That experience gave her the foundation for her work in analyzing field failures as well as to develop the 3M process for conducting a failure analysis. “When you learn how and why things fail in a medium voltage cable accessory, your next step is figuring out how things can be improved.” And that Sally has done. She has led training sessions both at 3M and with customers and partners to show best practices for cable preparation and cable accessory selection and installation. Additionally, her work in failure analysis has been used to identify product opportunities to both improve our current products and create new products. “I’m a curious person. I like figuring how and why cable accessories fail and, ultimately, helping our customers understand the root cause of their field failures.”