100 personas en mantenimiento que debes seguir (parte 3)

Making sure society runs smoothly isn’t easy, which is why it’s no understatement to say that those involved in maintenance and reliability are a society of heroes. That said, some individuals stand out because of their contributions to the profession, whether that’s through books, conferences, online leadership contributions, or other methods. Their contributions help reliability professionals all over the world improve both their craft and the facilities where they work, and they deserve recognition.

Over the past few weeks, we've been highlighting individuals in the maintenance and reliability field. These individuals have been chosen based on a combination of maintenance community input, and the kinds of contributions they’ve made to the improvement of professionals. Everyone is listed in alphabetical order, and this third article in the series highlights those with last names M-R.

To read part 1 of this series, which features those with last names A-G, click here .

To read part 2 of this series, which features those with last names H-L, click here .

Without further ado, here are some more people in the maintenance and reliability community that you should follow!

George Mahoney

Program Manager and Business Optimizer Lead at Merck

George’s LinkedIn

George Mahoney is a Six Sigma Black Belt who has worked in nearly every level of maintenance and reliability. His past roles include HVAC technician work, maintenance planning, maintenance scheduling, CMMS administration, design engineering, and reliability engineering. His goal is to eliminate waste and improve design to maximize reliability in facilities through lean methodologies and continuous improvement. A recipient of various awards, George has authored a number of articles for Uptime Magazine on maintenance and reliability topics.

Lucas Marino

Life Cycle Engineer and Integrated Logistics Support Manager at Amentum

Lucas’s LinkedIn

Lucas Marino got his start working on engines and systems of military vessels, and he has since become experienced in all levels of shipboard engineering. In addition to his position at Amentum, Lucas also contributes to the maintenance and reliability industry as a consultant at Marino Consulting Services, LLC; an adjunct assistant professor at Old Dominion University; a contributor to PM-ProLearn; and an author of various online articles.

Sanya Mathura

Managing Director and Senior Consultant at Strategic Reliability Solutions Ltd

Sanya’s LinkedIn

Sanya Mathura is the founder of Strategic Reliability Solutions in Trinidad where she works as a Senior Consultant and Managing Director. Sanya has a solid background in engineering, and is the first person in her country to receive the Machinery Lubrication Engineer certification from ICML. She works with clients to help them integrate reliability into their corporate culture through consulting and training services. Sanya has also recently published a book titled Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms: A Complete Guide.

Gregory Mecomber

Maintenance & Reliability Manager at DS Smith

Gregory’s LinkedIn

Over the course of Gregory Mecomber’s varied experience in maintenance—which include work as a technician, supervisor, engineer, consultant, and manager—he has helped companies improve their maintenance and operations processes. Some of his successes include helping an automotive parts manufacturer shift from reactive to proactive maintenance, saving a company millions through preventive maintenance optimization, and cutting unplanned downtime by a significant margin. He’s also a member of SMRP’s Awards Committee and the writer of various professional articles.

Michael Meehan

CEO and Senior Consultant of Reliability Dude, LLC

Michael’s LinkedIn

Michael Meehan is a CRL, CMRP, and CMM, and he is currently self-employed as CEO and Senior Consultant of Reliability Dude, LLC. Over the course of his career, Michael has been involved in various organizations and projects and presented on maintenance topics with Noria Corp. He also contributes his knowledge to the maintenance and reliability community through consulting services and articles on LinkedIn.

Adrian Messer

Director of U.S. Operations at UE Systems

Adrian’s LinkedIn

Adrian Messer helps users of ultrasound technology improve reliability in their facilities, and he enjoys educating them on implementing ultrasound in their efforts. Adrian is a graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Management, focusing particularly on human resources. After graduation, he found a position at UE Systems as a Manager of U.S. Operations, where he has worked ever since. Adrian shares his expertise through various articles that appear in Plant Services, Machinery Lubrication, Maintworld, and Reliability Connect.

Mark Miozzi

Smart Manufacturing Specialist at Rexel Automation Solutions

Mark’s LinkedIn

Mark Miozzi has a professional background in sales, operations, and management, with education in management, business/business administration, and machine learning implementation. Over the course of his career, Mark has helped facilities adopt innovative technologies that allow their information technology (IT) to tap into raw data from their operations. Committed to providing organizations with the IIoT solutions they need in order to operate more efficiently, Mark has also published numerous articles on LinkedIn.

R. Keith Mobley

Principal Consultant at Life Cycle Engineering

Keith’s LinkedIn

In addition to his role as Principal Consultant at LCE, R. Keith Mobley is a thought leader and executive advisor with 55 years of experience in business, engineering, finance, and consulting. Keith has extensive experience applying Lean Six Sigma principles in hundreds of projects, along with 25 years of experience in corporate transformation consulting around the world. He has also published numerous textbooks, including Maintenance Engineering Handbook through McGraw-Hill, and is a contributing editor for Plant Engineering, Plant Services, and Engineer’s Digest.

Ron Moore

Managing Partner at The RM Group, Inc.

Ron’s Bio

Ron Moore is recognized throughout the world as an authority on manufacturing reliability. He is currently managing partner at The RM Group, Inc., and before that, he was President of Computational Systems, Inc., where he helped the company grow 30% per year. Ron is the author of A Common Sense Approach to Defect Elimination and Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence.

Tom Moriarty

President of Alidade MER, Inc.

Tom’s LinkedIn

PE, CMRP, and published author Tom Moriarty is an expert in productive leadership. In addition to being President of Alidade MER, Inc.—a veteran-owned small business that helps organizations improve performance—Tom is the author of The Productive Leadership System: Maximizing Organizational Reliability and co-author of Effective and Innovative Practices for the Strategic Facilities Manager . Tom has received numerous awards and honors; is an active member of SMRP, ASME, and AMP; and has articles published on Putman Media, Inc.

Simon Murray

Founder of Your Maintenance Coach

Simon’s LinkedIn

After helping numerous companies improve their maintenance processes, Simon Murray started Your Maintenance Coach in order to reach more organizations. He has developed a series of steps and best practices that can help any maintenance team maximize the service they provide to operations while reducing costs and keeping team members engaged. Simon offers a number of services and conducts workshops that are designed to facilitate improvement.

Jack Nicholas

Author and Keynote Speaker

Jack’s LinkedIn

Jack Nicholas is a CRL and CMRP whose experience in maintenance and reliability began with working on U.S. Navy submarines and warships. Since then, he has trained and consulted personnel in various industries throughout the world. Currently, he is a keynote speaker and an author/co-author of twelve books, and he has conducted workshops on the subject matter covered in his published material. Jack has also served in various roles in SMRP since its start in 2000.

Larry Olson

CEO and President of Nexus Global

Larry’s LinkedIn

Larry Olson is a member of SMRP and a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP). Over the years of his career, he has worked in a variety of maintenance and operations roles, including as a maintenance manager, operations manager, and corporate maintenance director. Currently, he’s the president and CEO of Nexus Global Business Solutions, Inc., where he draws on his practical experience to help businesses improve reliability and adopt modern maintenance and operations strategies.

Doc Palmer

Managing Partner at Richard Palmer & Associates

Doc Palmer’s LinkedIn

Doc Palmer is well-known in the maintenance and reliability industry. With his 25 years of industry experience, Richard (Doc) Palmer is currently Managing Partner of Richard Palmer & Associates, Inc., through which he provides consulting, mentoring, training, and education services. Doc Palmer has also written numerous articles, given presentations in various venues, and written a book titled the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook , which is highly read by professionals in the industry.

George Parada

Global Asset Management & Ops Readiness Manager at Facebook

George’s LinkedIn

George Parada started his career in mechanical engineering, but promptly found himself getting involved in maintenance and reliability. He has since helped various businesses improve their reliability as he’s worked in a number of roles. George now works at Facebook as their Global Asset Manager and Ops Readiness Manager, in which he leads a team that performs global implementation and process optimization.

Howard Penrose

President of MotorDoc LLC

Howard’s LinkedIn

Howard Penrose is the President of MotorDoc LLC, which is a firm that focuses on reliability and maintenance engineering, training, publishing, energy, electrical motor diagnostics, and other reliability-related matters. Howard is an expert in electrical signature analysis, which is a diagnostic system with maintenance management applications. He has also served as the 2017-2018 Chair of SMRP, written numerous articles on MotorDoc’s website and LinkedIn, and authored a couple of books, including Electrical Motor Diagnostics 2nd Edition and Physical Asset Management for the Executive: Caution: Don’t Read This If You Are on an Airplane .

Doug Plucknette

Founder, Owner, and President of Reliability Solutions

Doug’s LinkedIn

There are very few positions Doug Plucknette hasn’t held in the maintenance and reliability space. His experience includes work as a journeyman, supervisor, administrative assistant, reliability engineer, RCM facilitator, and a company president. As the founder of Reliability Solutions and the creator of RCM Blitz, his goal is to spread his RCM methodology throughout the world. Doug has authored numerous articles appearing on Allied Reliability, Accendo Reliability, and Reliabilityweb as well as a book titled Reliability Centered Maintenance Using... RCM Blitz.

Jack Poley

Managing General Partner at Condition Monitoring International

Jack’s LinkedIn

Jack Poley specializes in data evaluation methods for fluid analysis, and he developed the first intelligent software system for testing in-service lubricants in 1979. That system has since developed further with the advent of Industry 4.0, with Jack continuing to innovate within the field of fluid analysis as the founder and Managing General Partner of Condition Monitoring Int’l. He is the author of the book titled Practical Fluid Analysis in the 21st Century .

Jarrod Potteiger

Director of Services at Des-Case Corporation

Jarrod’s LinkedIn

Jarrod Potteiger is the Director of Services at Des-Case Corporation, a company that creates innovative solutions for extending the life of oil and equipment. A CMRP and Certified Lubrication Specialist, Jarrod has been published multiple times in both Uptime Magazine and Machinery Lubrication Magazine, in which he discusses lubrication and oil analysis at length.

John Reeve

Independent CMMS Consultant

John’s LinkedIn

John Reeve is a Certified Maintenance Manager (CMM) and CRL who helps organizations with such matters as setting up reliability roadmaps, designing failure analytics, setting up work order ranking matrices, and so forth. He was also a Senior Reliability Leader at Reliabilityweb.com and a maintenance and reliability leader at various consulting firms. John has authored a number of books, including Failure Modes to Failure Codes and Demanding Excellence from Your Asset Management System.

Nancy Regan

RCM Practitioner at The Force, Inc.

Nancy’s LinkedIn

After falling in love with reliability-centered maintenance in the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Nancy Regan left to found The Force, Inc., a company that helps organizations apply the principles of RCM. Then in 2017, she founded RCMTrainingOnline.com, which provides online RCM training courses. Nancy is also the author of The RCM Solution: A Practical Guide to Starting and Maintaining a Successful RCM Program .

Dave Reiber

Maintenance & Reliability Leader at Reiber Reliability LLC

Dave’s LinkedIn

From 2016 until March of 2020, Dave Reiber served as Senior Reliability Leader at Reliabilityweb.com, where he worked on improving their capabilities with respect to the Uptime Elements Reliability Framework and Certified Reliability Leader learning management system. He has over 30 years of industry experience, much of which was at General Motors. Dave occasionally speaks on the use of predictive technologies to improve asset reliability, availability, and so forth.

James Reyes-Picknell

Cofounder and President of Conscious Asset and Conscious Reliability

James’s LinkedIn

James Reyes-Picknell is a consultant, trainer, best selling author, adviser, and expert in physical asset productivity. His companies, Conscious Asset and Conscious Reliability, are consulting and training firms that help organizations reduce costs and improve productivity. James has a strong background in maintenance and reliability management, and his credentials include P.Eng., CMC, CAMA, MMP, and various others. Some of the books he’s authored and co-authored include Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered: Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R ; Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management ; Paying Your Way, Basic Reliability Management ; and No Surprises! The Conscious Capital Asset Framework.

Tim Rice

Principal Consultant at The Defect Elimination Project

Tim’s LinkedIn

As a child, Tim Rice had a fascination with finding out how things worked, and that interest led him to eventually get a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Central Queensland University. Tim shortly after got a graduate degree in Maintenance Management, and he has since worked in the mining and resource processing industries in maintenance and reliability roles. He has a passion for the entire cycle of asset management, and he believes in passing his knowledge on to others through mentoring and coaching.

Allan Rienstra

President of SDT Ultrasound Solutions

Allan’s LinkedIn

A Certified Reliability Leader, Allan Rienstra is president of SDT, a company well-known for its ultrasound solutions. Allan has contributed to the successful implementation of world-class ultrasound programs around the globe through his various duties, including as an Ultrasound Solutions Specialist and author. His published works include contributions to SDT’s blog and a book titled Hear More: A Guide to Using Ultrasound for Leak Detection and Condition Monitoring .

Gary Rigdon

Senior Consultant at Marshall Institute

Gary’s LinkedIn

Gary Rigdon has over 40 years of experience within the petroleum industry where he worked in a number of management and technical positions, including both maintenance and operations roles. Currently, Gary works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer with the Marshall Institute where he helps businesses improve their maintenance and reliability (not to mention publishing articles to their blog). In terms of education, Gary is a graduate of North Carolina State University’s Maintenance & Reliability Management Diploma Program.

Andy Rodes

VP of Operations and Business Development at VibeCloud Reliability Solutions

Andy’s LinkedIn

Andy Rodes is the Vice President of Operations and Business Development at VibeCloud Reliability Solutions, a company that provides IIoT vibration monitoring systems to plants. A certified CMRP and Level II vibration analyst, Andy has over 16 years of experience in condition monitoring and predictive maintenance. He has spoken on podcasts and written articles on VibeCloud’s state-of-the-art solutions.

Alan Ross

Vice President of Reliability at SDMyers

Alan’s LinkedIn

Alan Ross has worked through various avenues to help companies improve their reliability, including in his position as the Vice President of Reliability at SDMyers, a company that provides services intended to help companies extend the life of transformers through maintenance, oil testing, training, and so forth. He is a contributor to their blog, called “The Intelligent Transformer Blog,” where he’s done a number of podcasts with professionals in the industry. He is also the President of Electric Power Reliability Alliance (EPRA), an organization for power reliability professionals.

Robert Russell

CTO and Cofounder of Senseye Ltd.

Robert’s LinkedIn

Robert Russell is the cofounder and CEO of Senseye, Ltd., a company that provides cloud-based predictive maintenance that has helped maintenance teams cut unplanned downtime in half. He has also served on the Health Management & Prognostics NTC, which covers condition monitoring and the management of engines, avionic systems, structures, and wiring systems. Robert has a strong engineering background, with a degree in Mechanical Systems Design with Electronics from Glasgow Caledonian University and various engineering-related occupations.

To read part 4 of this series, which features those with last names S-Z, click here .

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